The share allotment of Rovers’ parent company Venky’s London Limited has increased by just over £2m.

The latest allotment was revealed in the accounts listed on Companies House and takes the overall share allotment to over £219m since their takeover in 2010.

VLL owns a 99.99 per cent stake in the club and regularly uses share allotment as a way of funding the day-to-day running of the club.

The last allotment in March, of just under £7m, was the first of 2022. The latest is dated September 5.

Venky’s London Limited was formed on October 2013 ahead of the takeover of Rovers the following month, with the first allotment of shares, of £35.6m coming in May 2011.

There have since been a further 26 share allotments issues by VLL, with three coming in 2021 and now two this calendar year.

The VLL accounts for the year to March 2022 are expected to be published in December.

The club accounts for the year to June 2021, published in April, showed losses had fallen by £17m.

Those were helped by the £16.7m sale of the Senior Training Centre to a newly-formed company of the owners, which came three days before the cut-off point for such an agreement.

That was calculated in the figures for 2020/21, while the initial £15m sale of Adam Armstrong to Southampton was included in the 2021/22 accounts having come in August.

Speaking on the club’s finances to the Lancashire Telegraph in June, chief executive Steve Waggott said: “We’re okay on profit and sustainability. That’s the big one we have to keep our eye on.

“I think with the tweaks we did to the structure last year, the sale of Armstrong in the 2021/22 accounts, so we’re looking solid.

“The owners are fully supportive again of the shortfall to have a competitive squad like we all want.”

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