S4A chair Leigh Kent seeks EFL clarity over West Brom PSR charge | OneFootball

Shareholders for Albion chairman Leigh Kent has asked the EFL for clarity on the financial charge facing West Bromwich Albion, sending a lengthy email and copying the Independent Football Regulator.

According to ExpressAndStar.com, it emerged last week that relegation-battling Albion face a hearing over an alleged profit and sustainability breach. It is believed the case centres on interest payments on a loan from United States lender MSD Holdings taken in 2022 and 2023 under Guochuan Lai. The club insist they are not in breach.

Kent, who works in the legal industry, said his email addressed relevant issues including sporting integrity and timing, and noted the club cannot discuss the substance with him at this stage.

He said that if the issue is as he suspects, his informed view, based on involvement since 2020, is that Albion would not be in breach if all relevant matters had been considered by the EFL. He also reminded the league of the sequence of events that led to the MSD loan, citing shortcomings by the EFL and the Premier League that he says created the need for a significant part of it.

He added that the matters are complex and that Albion have been advised by at least two sets of professionals. Kent liaised closely with the club during Lai’s troubled tenure, before the Baggies were rescued in February 2024, when administration was understood to be a real prospect.

Source: ExpressAndStar.com