A crucial Premier League meeting between Everton and Liverpool’s leaders is scheduled.

The ‘new deal for football’ and revision to amortisation rules will be discussed at the next shareholders meeting

Next month, the leaders of Everton and Liverpool will meet with the other eighteen Premier League teams for a shareholder meeting where important issues facing the league will be discussed.

When the 20 member clubs get together on December 12, the “New Deal,” which calls for allocating roughly £900 million in funding to the English Football League (EFL) over a six-year period, will likely be the main topic of discussion, according to Sky News.

A conversation about changing the player amortization rules will also be covered on the agenda. This issue was raised by Chelsea’s aggressive transfer spending, which resulted in transfer fees being spread over a longer accounting period by giving players longer contracts. There will also be talk about possible funding arrangements for women’s professional football in the UK.

A number of clubs outside of the “big six”—Arsenal, Chelsea, Liverpool, Manchester City, Manchester United, and Tottenham Hotspur—are reportedly dissatisfied with the terms of the New Deal and the amount that would have to be given to the EFL. According to the report, one club in the bottom half of the table has already brought up the possibility of borrowing money in order to cover its portion of the debt.

The so-called “new deal for football” was unveiled in the fall, with the English Football League (EFL) receiving a payment of £88 million in the first year and £190 million in the final 12 months of the agreement, in 2028–29. In between, payments of £101 million, £174 million, £178 million, and £184 million would be made.

The goal was to attempt to address the financial problems that the English football pyramid faces, particularly the enormous revenue gap between the Championship and the Premier League, which causes clubs vying for Premier League glory to sometimes find themselves in unstable financial situations. Conversely, lower league teams have encountered a growing challenge in generating revenue and

The so-called “new deal for football” was unveiled in the fall, with the English Football League (EFL) receiving a payment of £88 million in the first year and £190 million in the final 12 months of the agreement, in 2028–29. In between, payments of £101 million, £174 million, £178 million, and £184 million would be made.

The goal was to attempt to address the financial problems that the English football pyramid faces, particularly the enormous revenue gap between the Championship and the Premier League, which causes clubs vying for Premier League glory to sometimes find themselves in unstable financial situations. Conversely, lower league teams have encountered a growing challenge in generating revenue and

The so-called “new deal for football” was unveiled in the fall, with the English Football League (EFL) receiving a payment of £88 million in the first year and £190 million in the final 12 months of the agreement, in 2028–29. In between, payments of £101 million, £174 million, £178 million, and £184 million would be made.

The goal was to attempt to address the financial problems that the English football pyramid faces, particularly the enormous revenue gap between the Championship and the Premier League, which causes clubs vying for Premier League glory to sometimes find themselves in unstable financial situations. Conversely, lower league teams have encountered a growing challenge in generating revenue and financial issues have arrived at the door of a number of storied clubs in recent years.

The government emphasized the £4 billion revenue gap between the 20 Premier League clubs and the Championship clubs in a white paper released earlier this year. The document stated: “The current distribution of revenue is not sufficient, contributing to problems of financial unsustainability and having a destabilizing effect on the football pyramid.”

Regarding the updated amortisation rules that clubs will debate, the plan is probably going to be along the same lines as what UEFA instituted following Chelsea’s massive transfer expenditures.

Amortization is used on the balance sheet to account for the guaranteed amounts associated with transfer fees, regardless of how those fees are paid or how they are paid over time. This is calculated by dividing the guaranteed transfer fee’s value (minus add-ons) by the player’s contract length, which has traditionally been capped at five years in the Premier League and throughout Europe.

But because the transfer fee was spread out over a longer period of time and Chelsea planned to offer seven, eight, and nine-year deals, the club would have more financial flexibility and the amount would not have as much of an annual impact as it would have on its balance sheet.

Earlier this year, UEFA, the body that oversees European football, took action to close that specific loophole by limiting the amount of time that deals could be amortized. While player contracts could still be as long as the club desired, the transfer fee could only be spread out over a maximum of five years. However, that only affects clubs participating in European competition; all 20 of the division’s member clubs are subject to the Premier League’s revised rules regarding the matter.