Nottingham Forest executives will meet rivals this week to discuss the future of the game
Peter Smith Stoke City reporter
13:49, 15 Nov 2025
Nottingham Forest co-owner Evangelos Marinakis will have a say in a Premier League debate on financial rules.
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Nottingham Forest owner Evangelos Marinakis will have a say in a Premier League debate on financial rules.(Image: JUSTIN TALLIS/AFP via Getty Images)
A major Premier League vote on the future of football finance regulation may be canned.
Clubs including Nottingham Forest will meet on Friday, November 21 and had been expected to debate the idea of replacing profit and sustainability rules (PSR) with a squad-cost ratio (SCR), which would limit clubs to spending 85 per cent of revenue on transfers, wages and agent fees.
But the proposal needs the backing of 14 clubs before it can even get to a vote and The Times suggests it might be difficult to get those numbers.
It is also being pointed out that there could be a surreal unintended consequence of introducing SCR - with fines from smaller clubs going to boost the coffers of the biggest.
Martyn Ziegler reports: "There are concerns that clubs such as Bournemouth, Brighton and Hove Albion, Crystal Palace, and Brentford — who have established themselves in the top flight — would find SCR harder to comply with than PSR and therefore it would diminish the competitive balance of the league.
"Another contentious aspect is that any fines for breaching the 85 per cent limit would go to the clubs who comply — almost certainly including the bigger teams who play regularly in the Champions League and are already complying with Uefa’s stricter level of 70 per cent.
"Under the SCR plan, clubs would be hit with sporting sanctions for spending 115 per cent or more of their revenues on player and agent costs."
Another idea on the agenda will be top-to-bottom anchoring (TBA), which would cap the amount any top flight club could spend on their squad at five times the smallest central broadcasting and prize money pay out.
Manchester City, Manchester United and Aston Villa are understood to have voted in April last year against further exploration of the idea. Opponents, including the PFA, say TBA creates a salary cap. The union has enlisted Nick De Marco KC, who successfully saw off EFL plans to bring in a salary cap in 2020, to defend its interests.
Some clubs have also apparently expressed concerns over the possibility of the EFL adopting anchoring in the Championship and Maheta Molango, PFA chief executive, is flummoxed by how anyone could square TBA with the parachute payment model.
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