Wolves: Cost £0 and then sold for £25m, Wolves hit the jackpot with 2022 sale
Wolves made a smart sale last summer, in a move that could benefit the Old Gold for years to come.
Wolverhampton Wanderers have sold some huge names over the years with a list of star players adding to the list this summer.
Molineux has seen some change this year, with players, managers and coaching staff coming and going, as the club aims to battle their way out of their financial storm.
The Old Gold had a summer of financial restrictions due to Financial Fair Play (FFP) rulings, leading to the sales of the likes of Ruben Neves, Nathan Collins and most recently, Matheus Nunes.
Those three sales alone generated over £100m for the side, with the deadline day departure of Nunes to Manchester City amounting to a club record £53m departure.
Wolves made a profit on each of the three highlighted deals, with reference to the price they initially purchased the players for, recording some strong business moves to add to their list of cash-generating exits.
While this summer caught the headlines in terms of star departures, last summer under Bruno Lage marked another strong sale of Morgan Gibbs-White, and it’s a move that could continue to be profitable for the Midlands club.
How much did Wolves sell Morgan Gibbs-White for?
Sold to Nottingham Forest in a deal worth a staggering £42.5m in total, Wolves received an initial payment of £25m for the services of Morgan Gibbs-White.
Considering the form that Gibbs-White has displayed at Forest, there’s some expectation that his value will rise to promote a significant sell-on fee in the future.
Steve Cooper’s side bid farewell to Brennan Johnson for a price of £47.5m, hinting at just how much the former Wolves academy star could one day exit for.
The success of the Old Gold’s sale of the 23-year-old is based on the fact that he cost the club nothing, with the midfielder rising through the ranks at the academy before impressing in the first team.
