Leeds United fans will be furious as Leicester City PSR update emerges
Leicester City facing another charge for breaching the EFL’s profit and sustainability rules will leave Leeds United fans fuming.
The Guardian reported on 18 September that the EFL plan to charge Leicester for the PSR breach they had previously been able to avoid punishment for, but only if they are relegated from the Premier League.
The EFL are reportedly determined to make sure that the Foxes’ £24.4million breach of the Premier League’s rules can still be enforced, but cannot do so until Leicester are a Championship side again.
Leicester gained automatic promotion alongside Ipswich Town at the expense of Daniel Farke’s side, and United fans will see this new update as further evidence that the Championship winners were guilty of gaining an unfair advantage in their efforts to get out of the division.
Leicester City to be hit by future PSR punishment?
In the eyes of any Peacocks fan, Leicester are bang to rights with their £24.4m PSR breach in the 2022/23 season – the one which saw both sides relegated to the Championship.
The Foxes escaping punishment on a technicality of timing will undoubtedly have angered United fans, knowing that Leicester were better able to keep hold of their star players due to financial cheating.
That’s a stark contrast to fortunes at Elland Road this summer, with Angus Kinnear revealing that the club had to sell two players – Archie Gray and Crysencio Summerville – to oblige with EFL-enforced PSR.
Leicester could face further trouble for their yet-to-be-revealed finances for the 2023/24 campaign, but revelations that they also cheated in this season – and beat the Whites to the top two – would take Leeds’ anger up a notch.
The exits of Gray, Summerville and Georginio Rutter still leave a bad taste in the mouth at Elland Road, with many a Leeds fan questioning, in the wake of Leicester’s saga, if PSR is worth its salt.
In other Leeds United news, one of the club’s star academy players could make the jump to first-team football with a loan move.
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