You'd try and hang onto a core of young talented players long enough to progress - so you still had the dream - but knew you'd likely have to cash in at some point.
What this system does is take away the last bit of hope and I can actually see supporters of the mid-tier (dreamer) clubs losing interest because it doesn't matter how convincing the "project" or manager is to a player with a decision to make, if you need to sell to satisfy PSR then there is no further discussion.
And yes, as you say, it's set up to actually be of most benefit to fit PSR to sell your homegrown youngsters, thus even further killing the dream.
As the article says, the ability to bring in revenue from players who have no book value (i.e. homegrown talent) is the only real way out. Gordon, in our case, Johnson in Forest's (a whole bunch for Chelsea - Gallagher the likely next one, given their need to generate profit).
We often talk about how PSR has been designed to stop nu-money clubs buying their way to the top...but, in setting that loss threshold, the 'bigger' teams have also created a system where most will need to sell their best players to them, simply to avoid breaking the rules.
Quite how Chelsea find themselves in this position is pretty incredible. Arguably worse (or, at least, as badly) run than us (given that they started out as one of those 'bigger' clubs that the system is there to support.
Responses