SCR rules next season, any accountants able to shed some light on this? by SuffolkPunchFC 4 May 10:35
I have your numbers way out [smile]

My quick calculation, based on 24/25 accounts for when we were last in the PL.

Revenue £155M
Total wage bill £77M
Player costs amortised £30M
(estimated to be £27M now, due to Delap and Hutchinson leaving, and accounting for new signings)

Estimated Revenue for 26/27 £180M
At 85% SCR, that gives us £153M to play around with
(There are 'safe' ways to exceed this but reduce future flexibility, so will ignore that)

Remove costs excluding player amortisation (£77M-£27M = £50M) leaves £103M

The signings would of course have to be paid - so let's assume 8 players at £50k/week, so £21M, reducing the headroom to £82M

Signings of players over 4 year contracts would allow £328M, or £410M for 5 years (contracts would of course vary) after amortisation

Now, we would not IMO want to go anywhere near 85% SCR ratio - we were 49% last year, but I don't see SCR being the limiting factor for us - it would be other fiscal responsibility that determines what we're prepared to put into player signing.

This is a quick calculation (so ignore positives such as players leaving), but I think it's about right.