Its not PSR that's crippled us (Villa) its SCR - Squad Cost Ratio - and being in UEFA competition where the rules mean that you can't spend more than 70% of revenue on wages and we were in the high 80s at the end of the last season. Not many teams could manage the loss of Duran, Luiz, Bailey, Ramsey, Diaby, (Rashford and Asensio too) as we have had too. That's nearly all of our attacking threat. We needed to sell Martinez to get his super-high wages off the bill and free up some spending room, but we haven't been able to move him because Man U have been dicks over it (offering to have him on loan, and then only on the last day deciding to buy someone else).
We're hearing only about PSR but we're compliant there, and it really is frustrating to the point where not Europe would be better for us.
Anyway, the game.
The defensive part we're not too bad, but as you can imagine its all about the final third. We're struggling to make good chances and that's on the movement of the ball and that our ball carriers really aren't doing it for us. But given that we've lost most of them over the past couple of windows that's hardly surprising. we were the better team at Brentford on Tuesday, without really ever looking dominant. We just need to click sooner rather than later.
