Quote Originally Posted by Nufcian View Post
No, the first year of the 3 year ROLLING WINDOW has been wiped clean.

So our worst ever ‘Ashley income / First year PIF spending’ balance has been taken off the books… but the 2nd year still had a lot of spend against a slightly better income… then last year income jumped but we spent also… it’s still going to be a few years before we have had a THREE YEAR ROLLING WINDOW… with a good income to offset the kind of spend we need to reliably compete at the top.
Correct. In PSR terms we are currently ‘hampered’ by the big purchases (e.g Isak, Botman, etc) which were made within the last 3 years, the high wage players on the books who aren’t good enough and that we can’t sell and the (increasing but relatively) low club income (Ashley to blame).

I think the discrepancy from what Eales said this window would be like and the way it’s actually turning out is that he assumed we’d be able to easily clear out our deadwood, which has not been the case. Big mistake on his part tbf.