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BREAKING NEWS:As Newcastle Calls for FFP Rule change

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The Premier League’s profit and sustainability rules are ‘killing the spirit of football’ and ‘forcing’ clubs to do unnatural deals by incentivising the sale of academy graduates.

That is the view of Damian Vidagany, Aston Villa’s director of football operations, who has joined Newcastle United CEO Darren Eales and Magpies boss Eddie Howe in speaking out. Eales said it was ‘perverse’ that clubs were rewarded with pure profit for moving on youngsters who came through the system or highly-rated players with a low book value after Newcastle reluctantly sold Elliot Anderson to Nottingham Forest and Yankuba Minteh to Brighton earlier this summer. Howe added that it ‘felt wrong’ and ‘defied the inner feeling we all had’, but Newcastle faced the doomsday scenario of a points deduction for a PSR breach if the black-and-whites did not trade in the final days of the financial year.

Eales has called for a ‘rethink’ on the rules and, although Chelsea have banked huge sums from the sale of academy graduates in recent years, Blues boss Enzo Maresca also claimed that something needs to change if clubs want to ‘protect’ youngsters. Now Vidagany has made his feelings clear.
“We need to have some rules to stick to, but PSR is making it very complex,” he told talkSPORT. “As you know, the system is forcing the club to sell academy players

This is the way to get more profit and then to stick to the rules. This is killing some of the spirit of football.

“To sell academy players – I’m not only talking about Aston Villa, we had to sell Omari Kellyman – but even for Chelsea fans with the case of [Conor] Gallagher and what’s happening there. It’s something that’s not natural in football. It’s breaking the cycle and affecting the inflation of the salaries of the players in terms of affecting how the clubs will want to build the squads with some sense of belonging in the squad, too.

“It’s forcing the clubs to do some deals that are not natural in the market because, in the market, to get the best deals, you need time. You need the right time to do it and PSR is not helping the clubs to control the inflation. In the end, it’s a contradiction because it’s made to try and control inflation but also provoking some clubs.”

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