The fears of Aston Villa Psr were detained by selling the women’s team – but UEFA rules are a greater battle

The sale by Aston Villa of his female team has actually resolved the problem concerning the rules of profitability and sustainability of this summer (PSR).

An agreement has been agreed to sell this faction of the club in V Sports, the parent company which controls a majority participation in Villa and jointly belongs to Wes Edens and Nassef Sawiris. A participation has also been finalized with American investors and their arrival, as a third party, provides evidence by indicating the market value of the women’s team.

A source, which, like all the others of this play, spoke of the state of anonymity to protect relations, said that Villa had explored the possibility of a sale in the last 18 months.

However, it was not only a short time before June 30, the end of the fiscal year, that an agreement was concluded.

It was a narrow shaving, but Villa essentially reproduced what Chelsea did in May, selling their female team to Blueco – the company, similar to V Sports, which has them, while exchanging an participation of eight percent to Alexis Ohanian, the founder of Reddit.

This agreement assessed the women of Chelsea overall at 245 million pounds sterling and although this figure is much higher than that of villa, important funds will be collected, in turn keeping against the threat of the PSR. Villa had recorded losses of 195 million pounds sterling in the past two years, but combined losses of more than 105 million pounds in three seasons would be a PSR violation. Perhaps no coincidence, only Chelsea (431.3 million pounds sterling) has lost day day in the previous two years, reducing sales of players, than Villa.

Villa could be forced to revise the possible figure in the sale of women’s team if the first League judges the evaluation excessively.

It was the third different road villa that has ventured in so many summer during the design of a solution to the PSR. In 2023, Villa sold local talents and has kept buyout options for players such as Cameron Archer, Jaden Philogène and Aaron Ramsey. Each sale has been banned as a reservable profit in terms of PSR.

The situation increased the following year, but villa and other clubs in also frantic states negotiated cross -transactions, where players were heading in opposite directions, but were treated as separate agreements. This allowed Villa to take into account the total amount of departures for the next PSR deadline while dividing the cost of incoming players over their length of their contracts.

In an agreement of 9 million pounds sterling, Tim Iroegbunam joined Everton, who exchanged Lewis Dobbin at Villa at the same price. Omari Kellyman was reluctantly authorized to go to Chelsea and, in return, Villa signed Ian Maathsen. Although it appeared villa paid 37.5 million pounds sterling for Maathsen, this issue will be distributed over a six -year contract and will be reduced by the 19 million pounds sterling received for Kellyman.

The most notable activity was Douglas Luiz moving to Juventus (42.5 million pounds sterling) and Samuel Iling-Junior and Enzo Barrenechea which go in the opposite direction for a combined cost of 18.5 million pounds sterling. None of the two made a championship appearance for Villa and spent last season on loan. They are both available to leave this summer.

The maneuvering stratages do not go back only to 2023 and under the governance of Unai Emery. Four years earlier, Villa Park was sold in Sawiris and Edens in an agreement worth 56.7 million pounds sterling.

But above all, this time, the PSR was never going to be the most alarming question. The sale of the female team reduces these pressures, but it is not the total panacea. Senior figures describe the cost rules of the UEFA team (SCR) as the most serious challenge that is faced with Villa, with conformity a difficult task. This is why there is little celebration in the sale of female team and solving PSR problems, knowing that there is another problem at hand.

Villa will participate in the Europa League next season and therefore on the financial orbit of UEFA. The rules of the European football leader organ dictate that “salary and transfer and transfer and agent transfer expenses” must be capped at 70% of a club income from the 2025-26 season.

The costs of salary in turn of club sources are projected in the mid -80s, which means that they will have to eliminate other salaries from the books to fall below 70%. Clearly, SCR has always been more alarming than the PSR, even if the latter had larger time pressures due to the deadline of June 30.

While Villa says that they are close to a resolution with UEFA relating to the compliance of the previous season, having initially planned a substantial fine for violations, repeated delinquents are more likely to undergo sports sanctions than monetary sanctions.

The profit of the sale of women will be withdrawn from the calculations of the UEFA from the villa, because the Director organ refuses to allow clubs to record profits on intra-group transactions.

Villa has a few months to comply with the SCR, but must discern the salary bill in a discernible manner and replace outgoing players. Senior characters have worked at Bodymoor Heath, the club’s training campus, most days throughout the summer, focuses particularly on this task and with a short time offered for the holidays.

The landscape has been slow to change, with injustable assets uncertain of their future, far from their national teams or wanting to wait for the best offers to arrive. Interested contenders prefer to recruit after June 30, so that the next series of accounts would not be assigned.

Then there are other examples of players who should, in theory, be quick solutions because they have no future at Villa. Leander Dendoncker and Philippe Coutinho both have 12 months on their respective contracts. In the case of the latter, Villa expects to terminate its contract but must still organize the Coutinho financial package, since they still owe the final depreciation payment to the previous club, Barcelona.

In short, little has changed concerning the sales of players. Villa acknowledges that they must compensate for the deficit by missing football in the Champions League and reducing the bill of wages. There are several marginal players available from, but the fastest and shortest route to comply with the 70% ceiling of UEFA is to sell high wages and replace them.

It is not the first villa rodeo during the fight to navigate and defend itself against the financial rules. The next challenge is to comply with UEFA.

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