TA: Many senior Premier League officials complained about the PSR system, believing that small and medium-sized teams are forcing their youth training

Hupu August 22nd News TheAthleticUK Communications reporter team wrote an op-ed article to analyze the PSR problems in the Premier League.

In fact, Chelsea started to take advantage of the market earlier than any other club, but Manchester City soon joined them and took advantage of its city football group's network.

A Premier League signing director, like some other sources in this article, spoke anonymously to maintain the relationship between Manchester City and City Group, and youth training, likened the relationship between Manchester City and the city group, as well as a "credit instrument."

The preferential conditions offered by Manchester City help motivate clubs to buy their players, and in return, the clubs need to negotiate a considerable second-transfer ratio to provide a stable source of income each year.

The reason is also simple. Many clubs face cash flow problems, and Manchester City took advantage of this by providing price cuts, adding options such as second transfers, buybacks, matching quotes, etc., allowing the club to obtain pure profits when selling players, while also giving them the power to buy back players at prices lower than the free market value.

The trend of Premier League clubs selling youth training players is partially offset by the trend of Premier League teams purchasing young English players to ensure they reach the quota of 8 local players on the 25-man roster.

The FA had hoped to raise the threshold to 12 players to take advantage of Brexit, but the Premier League rejected the proposal, saying "no evidence" that restricting foreign players would be beneficial to the England national team.

However, according to Opta, England players under the age of 23 (as of this article) accounted for only 4.7% of the total playing time in the Premier League last season.

"Selling players is definitely the worst unintended consequence of the PSR system," said a Premier League sports director.

"This rule must change. It is calculated based on net book value - the only solution is to turn players' transactions into cash outflows rather than cash income, but this is complicated.

In a global event and the best league in the world, the reduction in local players is not a big problem in itself, but the composition of each club is important."

Another Premier League sporting director said the current system is "protecting vested interests."

"No one can surpass the Big Six clubs and their income. Maybe it's involuntary, but it forces the club to sell their best young players.

They have been the jewel of the club's crown because they provide a sense of belonging to the club. This tradition is at risk now. It's a cycle. Without the stadium income of a big club, you need to go into Europe.

But to qualify for European events you need players to generate income, and players to achieve results, and the club has to sell their best young players.

You can be a club with no debt, good and ambitious bosses, but you're still tied up."