The accounts mark a third successive year Villa have lost money after posting a £120.3m pre-tax loss in the 2022-23 season and an £85.9m deficit following the 2023-24 campaign. This takes Villa’s losses across three years to nearly £290m.
Unlike in the Premier League, UEFA rules prevent clubs recording such asset sales, as the women’s team to V Sports, within financial submissions; the bottom line figure shown in Villa’s accounts, and within their PSR calculation, will show a pre-tax figure with that £113m added back on.
In other words, after allowing for those one-off sales, Villa booked an estimated £31m profit, bringing them under their maximum loss limit for Premier League PSR purposes. The Athletic has previously estimated Villa could lose a maximum of £15m pre-tax in 2024-25 to avoid a domestic PSR breach.
Crucially, Villa entered into a settlement agreement with UEFA last summer following a previous breach of that rule, meaning this further huge loss will not count toward future FER submissions. Villa are instead limited to a €5m Football Earnings loss in the current 2025-26 season — a target which on its own looks difficult, given the club has no Champions League revenues to rely on while still bearing significant operating costs. Selling high-valued first-team players by June 30, the end of the reporting period, is one way Villa could look to meet that target.
Enjoy Morgan Rogers for these last few months lads.
by arenaross
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Game is just well and truly gone, 15 years ago we would be breaking down the doors of the top 4 once and for all.
Alas, this stuff will be a millstone round our necks for ever unless they sort the rules out. They have built a closed system unless you can make hundreds of millions putting on concerts, or get an oil state to give you a billion quid for naming rights.
Oof.
Do we actually think Morgan commands that big a figure… feels like it will be a wild spurs overpay to save us.
It feels crazy that this is the case despite selling on nearly every major signing over the last few years at a profit
I’m thick, can someone explain to me the transfer we need before 30 June to adhere to this PSR bollocks. And if we don’t what the points deduction would be?
Meanwhile, Manchester United have debts of around £1.3b but can spend whatever they like.
Ah. The glass ceiling. Reminds me a bit of the Martin O’Neill era where we had a go, realised we aren’t rich enough to have a go and then stopped bothering. Qualification for the Champions League or a Europa League win feels like it’s now or never, right?
While I don’t think we will fall as far this time I suspect we will drop back into the pack and be comparable to Everton again.
Not to labour the point but losing £82M in the season you have CL football is absolutely ludicrous.
Do we have to sell Roger’s though?? We could get a decent fee for Guessand,Malen, Digne, Bailey, Iling jr and garcia combined. UCL football is a must man fuck. Fuck. Fuckkkkk
So this is football. Great, so we have to sell our best players to keep our heads above water. The so-called ‘bigger’ clubs have got the others by the balls.
Got not chance of competing with the likes of Arsenal, City, United or Chelsea. The system is built to ensure they stay at the very top. We’re punching above our weight at the moment and a lot it is thanks to Unai.
Honestly, Rogers will be gone in the summer and more will follow. I wonder how long Unai will stick around. I really fear for the club when Unai leaves.
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I hate this but what’s the answer?
The only option I see is to sell a high-value player and buy a lot of promising youngsters. We have to get the wage budget down (much like Chelsea have done) or this is going to be the same old story every season.
It’s time to cap the spending of those teams with ridiculous revenues. I can’t see it happening though.
At the moment they can (to a point) buy who they want on whatever wages they want which in turn inflates the market for everyone else. The regular or semi-regular Champions League payouts they are now getting make it highly unlikely that they will fail consistently enough to lose global standing and therefore revenue. They have massive safety nets.
It’s highly improbable that teams like Villa can even begin to compete consistently enough to break through. Our net spend is ridiculously low and so in order to compete we do pay good wages but not obscene (relatively). The consequence? Forced to sell top talent just to try to compete. Madness.
Football is indeed a funny old “game”.