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Manchester United have had an incredibly eventful transfer market with five big-name purchases being made.
Firstly we had Bologna’s Joshua Zirkzee followed by Leny Yoro of LOSC Lille. Then there was the Bayern Munich duo of Matthijs de Ligt and Noussair Mazraoui, before their final purchase of Manuel Ugarte.
The total cost of the five comes to an incredible £180 million during Sir Jim Ratcliffe’s first transfer window at the helm of United.
However, with only £50 million in the starting transfer budget, back at the start of the summer, Ratcliffe shortlisted a series of seven players to be sold to generate the transfer funds needed for their targets, aiming for £200 million to be raised.
Unfortunately with the sales that completed this summer, including those not on their shortlist, only £87 million was raised.
Further to this, back in July, the club announced a loss of £71.4 million for the third quarter (January to March 2024), with revenues shrinking by £30 million.
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Now, former chief of Everton, Keith Wyness has claimed that United could be “very close” to Profit and Sustainability Rules (PSR) breaches over their spending which could see a points deduction.
Speaking on the Football Insider’s Inside Track podcast, Wyness reported: “Selling assets like McTominay, Wan-Bissaka and a couple of others will have helped. It’s the first time they’ve managed to sell over £100million of players for quite a few years.”
He continued: “With them being a public company and having to report every quarter, you’d hope that a PSR breach could never occur at Man United.
“However, they’ll be very close. Hopefully, they’ve got enough accountants in the building. It would be a mistake of the highest order if they were to breach the rules.”
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