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Swansea Report Healthy £13.4m Pre-Tax Profit for 2016/17 Season After Big Money Sales

Swansea City booked their place in the FA Cup quarter finals for the first time since 1964 this week and have another reason to celebrate after reporting a pre-tax profit of £13.4m for the last financial year - 12 months up to 30th June 2017.

Figures published by BBC Sport show that overall turnover was a healthy £127.8m, a significant on the increase on the £97.2m turnover recorded in 2015/16.

Operating costs for 2016/17 were a shade over £150m, including the purchases of Fernando Llorente, Alfie Mawson, Jordan Ayew, Luciano Narsingh, Tom Carroll and Martin Olsson during the period in question.