Meanwhile, the Premier League introduces new rules to distort the market...
Premier League clubs have voted to bring in a new spending cap system on a trial basis for the 2024-25 season.
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"Premier League clubs have agreed to trial an alternative financial system which operates like a spending cap in the 2024-25 season.
The Squad Cost Rules (SCR) and Top to Bottom Anchoring Rules (TBA) will operate alongside the existing Profitability and Sustainability Rules (PSR) on a "non-binding basis".
Teams will be allowed to spend no more than 85% of their total revenues on squads under the new system.
Meanwhile, the TBA is an anchoring model based on the earnings of the bottom club."
The exact rules to be determined once the EPL have found a way for City to have breached them, while certain other clubs haven't.