Highbury Hillbilly wrote:Doubt they can do more without crossing PSR limits. We made £80m in sales in the summer, but we paid £90m for Raya, Calafiori and Merino. Add in a £20m installment for Rice, £13m installment for Havertz, plus fat new contracts for Saliba, Saka and Mikel. Not much cash left in the till.
Reportedly, PSR is a non-issue. Whether the club will spend is dependent on KSE's willingness to do so.
As per Swiss Ramble’s estimates, Arsenal could see a £13m pre-tax loss this season, a reduction on the £52m from 2022/23 and the £45m from 2021/22 thanks in no small part to the return of Champions League football.
Allowable deductions for the club were pegged at £41m for 2021/22, £40m for 2022/23, while the prediction is £42m for 2023/24. That means a total of £123m in allowable deductions over the three-year period, with the rolling loss standing at £111m, if the £13m figure is correct.
The net PSR result, after deductions, for 2021/22 was negative £2m, while for 2022/23 it was £12m. The club are predicted to be PSR net positive for 2023/24 at £29m, meaning the three-year net PSR position will be £14m, making an allowable loss for the club for 2023/24 of £119m, meaning that they have plenty of headroom and no PSR concerns.
Assuming the same level of allowable deduction are applied to the current financial year of 2024/25, then the forecast is that Arsenal, for the current reporting period that runs until the end of May, could lose as much £164m before tax and still be able to remain PSR compliant. The club won’t get anywhere near that kind of loss having enjoyed another season in the Champions League, albeit with some additional wage spend and amortisation costs due to transfer activity.
https://www.football.london/arsenal-fc/ ... l-30769615
Swiss Ramble's article (paywall) -
Part 1 https://swissramble.substack.com/p/whic ... ted-by-psr
Part 2 https://swissramble.substack.com/p/whic ... by-psr-bde