West Brom did not confirm the charge, but did indicate there was an issue.<\/p>\n
“West Bromwich Albion acknowledges media reports relating to the club’s compliance with the EFL’s profitability and sustainability (P&S) rules,” a statement read.<\/p>\n
“The club considers that it has fully complied with the P&S rules. The club will continue to co-operate with the EFL’s Club Financial Reporting Unit and looks forward to resolving this matter.<\/p>\n
“It would not be appropriate for the club to comment further at this stage.”<\/p>\n
Clubs had until 31 December to submit annual accounts for the 2024-25 season, which are then assessed for compliance.<\/p>\n
The CFRU then issues a compliance report to a club alleged to be in breach. <\/p>\n
There is a 14-day period to respond, and a hearing must be held within 28 days of the compliance report being issued.<\/p>\n
It means that any points deduction might not be confirmed until after the final day of the Championship season on 2 May.<\/p>\n
The Telegraph report indicated that it was only a small breach.<\/p>\n
A breach of up to \u00a32m incurs a three-point penalty. If it is up to \u00a34m, there is a four-point deduction.<\/p>\n
The EFL applies mitigation if a club’s losses have reduced season on season, which would apply here and give West Brom one point back.<\/p>\n
Relegated Sheffield Wednesday have been deducted 18 points for entering administration and financial breaches this season.<\/p>\n
Leicester City, who sit second bottom, have suffered a six-point deduction for breaching P&S regulations. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"West Brom did not confirm the charge, but did indicate there was an issue. “West Bromwich Albion acknowledges…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":528717,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":{"0":"post-528716","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/528716","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=528716"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/528716\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/528717"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=528716"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=528716"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=528716"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}