Brighton and Hove Albion have set a record for the largest profit made by an English football club.
The profit of £122.8 million last season was thanks in large
part to the sale of players such as Alexis Mac Allister to Liverpool and Marc
Cucurella to Chelsea but even without income from transfers Brighton were still
in the black in a year when many of their Premier League rivals made heavy
losses.
Brighton beat the previous mark of £113 million set by
Tottenham Hotspur in 2017-18. Globally, only Barcelona have posted higher
profits, though their figure of €351 million (about £300 million) for 2022-23
involved the club selling their “economic levers” — being paid up front for
future income.
The income for the year included £22 million paid by Chelsea
in compensation for Graham Potter and his coaching team moving to Stamford
Bridge.
The figures do not include any transfer income from the £115
million sale of Moisés Caicedo to Chelsea or £25 million for the goalkeeper
Robert Sánchez to the same club. The accounts say that after the end of the
last financial year Brighton have net transfer income of £51.1 million.
For the first time since Bloom made his first loan to the
club in 2007, Brighton have made a repayment to him, reducing the interest-free
loans balance from £406.5 million to £373.3 million.
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