I’m afraid the FFP regulations are based on revenue numbers, so it don’t make any difference if the new owner pays off the debt and puts 250m in the bank - FFP regs will still only look at % of revenue.
Not correct the new FFP slows the club to spend 90% of their total revenues on wages, Agent fees and amortised transfer which is the value of the fee spread over the term of the contract. The 90% threshold then changes to 80% in season 24/25 and 70% in season 2025/26.
Assuming Sales Revenue declined by 10% this year highly likely as no CL, Sales Revenue will be £550m our wage bill was reported £384m last year but this will be reduced significantly due to Ronaldo leaving, and Europa League reductions of 20% plus other high profile players leaving like Pogba, Cavani, Mata, Matic, Lingard, yes we signed Casemeiro, Antony, Martinez, Malacia and Ericsen but their wages are lower than the 5 outgoings which was easily 1m per week off the bill against 850,000 per week incoming. It’s safe to assume our wage bill this year is about £325m , this is why players like Weghorst rather than Felix or Gatkpo were not signed. This would be roughly 63% of the 90% allowed without players being sold
This doesn’t mean that we have £170m to spend this summer because it does not work like that so for example if we buy V Osimhen for £120m on a 5 year contract but with ridiculous agents fees of £20m which have to be paid up front normally that would mean £44m of our £170m allowance has been spent in 1 player. The sales value of Osimhen would be amortised over a 5 year contract so the fee is divided by 5 and then added to the upfront agents fees.
Could new owners buy 6 or 7 players, simple answer is yes but we would need to sell some players because we can offset the net position with their amortised sale value and therefore increase our transfer budget up to £250-300m. They are some great free deals this summer too like Adrian Rabiot and others so with a new ownership team I’m confident they would want to be seen as a polar opposite to the clowns who conducted transfer policy previously .
Our problem and the new owners problems will start following the two years after this summer where they would have their hands tied and would be able to do very little without cancelling and paying up contracts to reduce salaries of some of their players. Imagine 2025/26 with a revenue of maybe £650m quite possible with solid runs in the CL