Then the answer is to write a clause into their contract that they can only be sold for 25mill. Grealish was not worth 100 mill but City had to pay it.Top post but the rule about acting in utmost good faith only seems to apply to us.
But when people say this is a loophole, or a way to get round PSR, and there's no rules against it, they're wrong. The PL require accurate accounts and we're being investigated for falsifying our financial accounts by inflating sponsorships (which we haven't).
If two clubs swap academy players who are worth, say, £10m each, but put them through the books at £25m, that will inflate their accounts by £15m. Knowingly doing that is fraud & false accounting, pure and simple, and they should be charged accordingly.
The PL are going to self destruct soon. They will be skint having paid for all the barristers.