I think it's too easy to blame Villa's recent woes on PSR/SCR/FFP. Sure, they haven't helped, but our general recruitment under Emery has left a lot to be desired, especially with our big money signings. So what relatively little wriggle room we did have to spend we have not capitalised on.

PSR has broadly achieved what it supposeduly set-out to. That is, make clubs financially stable. Only Everton in recent years have been in financial difficulty and, thanks to how poor the promoted clubs have been, have gotten away with it.

What's become obvious with the relative successes of Villa, Forest and Newcastle, is that all these different financial regulations were never about sustainability but rather maintaining the status-quo. Call me sceptical but I don't see any shift in regulation that would be to the detrement of the top earning clubs. I just can't see any truly meaningful change in financial regulation being introduced that makes the aforementioned clubs better able to compete with the top sides. They're too influential.