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A leading football finance expert has warned that Aston Villa could find themselves trapped by the Premier League’s profit and sustainability rules , aka PSR, claiming the current system effectively prevents ambitious clubs from breaking into the league’s elite by limiting their spending.

Increasingly, the talk of football, PSR, or “Financial Fair Play” rules has changed and shaped a lot of the transfers in the Premier League in recent years, with clubs often having to sell off some of their best home-grown talent to help balance their books.

And now, speaking on his Price of Football podcast , finance analyst and PSR expert Kieran Maguire argued that the regulations were never actually designed to level the playing field. Instead, he argues, their main purpose was

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