West Ham United are under no threat of breaching the Premier League’s profit and sustainability rules (PSR) after selling Declan Rice last summer, according to Football Insider.
The Football Insider’s finance expert Stefan Borson suggested that the Hammers have been run “extremely well financially over the last few years.” The clubs sale of Declan Rice for a pure profit of £105m last summer allowed the club to spend just over £120m in the same summer. The club have spent a similar amount of money this summer and that’s without counting the €40m obligation to buy for Jean-Clair Todibo
The club have also only brought in £40m from player sales, so it has been a very expensive window. Many Premier League fans are surprised that West Ham have been able to spend so much money and sign so many players. However, Stefan Borson believes the Hammers are under absolutely no threat of facing punishment.
He told Football Insider: “I am sure they will try and move some players on, but they don’t have any PSR issues. One reason for that is because they have been extremely well run over the last few years.
“If you look at particularly their wage bill and the way they run their operating expenses, they appear to be very well run from a financial perspective compared to their peer group. That’s the first indication of resilience from a PSR perspective.
“Then laying on top of that they sold Rice for more than £100m. That means there are no real issues there because that was a huge amount of profit that’s gone into the three-year rolling period.”
Julen Lopetegui now wants to bring in another central midfielder in Carlos Soler from PSG, however, they do want to offload at least one player before a deal happens. The club are looking to sell a few fringe players in order to further strengthen their PSR position.
