Despite their financial troubles last season, Wolves are believed to have just passed the Premier League’s profit and sustainability (PSR) test.
That is according to finance expert Stefan Borson, who exclusively informed Football Insider that the West Midlands club most likely received the necessary income in January due to their end-of-May accounting deadline. The Premier League club was thought to be on the verge of breaking the PSR regulations in 2023/24, after selling many players to help balance the books last summer.
Wolves reported a net loss of £67.2 million in their most recent 2022-23 reports, following losses of £46.1 million in 2021-22, with top-flight clubs being allowed to register losses of £105 million over a rolling three-year period.
Club chairman Jeff Shi previously wrote an open letter to fans, stating that they were actively monitoring their losses to ensure compliance with Premier League financial standards.
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Borson says Gary O’Neil’s team only just made it through PSR despite having a number of financial challenges over the last year.
He told Football Insider: “I believe they were very close to a PSR breach in 2023-24.
“They probably just scraped through.”The fascinating thing about Wolves from a PSR standpoint is that they still have an end-of-May year-end: “That means once you get through the January transfer window, unless they move the year-end to June, they are stuck because nobody is selling players before the end of May.”Their position with PSR is often resolved from a transfer standpoint when the transfer window ends in January.
“We have to assume that they got their necessary profits in place by then and, therefore, passed the PSR test for 2023-24.”
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