£12.2m profit must ease any Wolves frustration about marksman: View | OneFootball

With Wolves battling for promotion during the 2017/18 season, manager Nuno Espírito Santo signed Spanish striker Rafa Mir in the January transfer window on a four-and-a-half year deal.

The club forked out a fee of just £1.5million to sign him from Valencia, but it was seen as a very exciting move as the striker had previously featured for Valencia's first-team.

However, it's fair to say that his time at Molineux certainly didn't live up to expectations and Mir was a flop, despite the small transfer fee.

Remarkably though, Wolves would go on to make a huge profit on the striker, despite the fact he failed to score at the club. Mir's time at Molineux proved a bizarre one, and it's fair to say the club never saw the best of him.

Rafa Mir barely played during his time at Wolves

The Spanish striker was signed during Wolves' 2017/18 Championship-winning campaign, and subsequently struggled to break into Nuno Espírito Santo's starting team.

Mir played just four times during the second-half of the 2017/18 season, playing just two Championship games from the bench before making the matchday squad just twice from January onwards.

His two Championship appearances were coupled with two games in the FA Cup, where he started the club's FA Cup replay defeat to Swansea - that was to be his only start for the club.

The striker actually ended the season playing for Wolves' U21 side, and with the club winning promotion that season, it became apparent that he'd have even less game time in the Premier League, and was subsequently loaned out.

He moved back to Spain, signing for second division side Las Palmas, and in total he scored seven goals in 30 appearances for the club, not an awful return, but definitely not good enough to warrant a chance in the Premier League.

This meant he was loaned to Nottingham Forest at the beginning of the 2019/20 season, but he failed to score in 13 appearances for Sabri Lamouchi's side, and after struggling for regular minutes, he instead joined Spanish side Huesca on an 18-month loan.

He fared a lot better in Spain, and registered nine goals in 18 La Liga 2 appearances during the 2019/20 season, helping them win promotion to La Liga.

He impressed in La Liga during the 2020/21 season, scoring 16 goals in all competitions, including 13 in the league. This attracted the interest of Sevilla, and Mir moved to Spain on a permanent basis in the summer of 2021 after making just four appearances for Wolves.

Wolves made a huge profit on Rafa Mir

Incredibly, Wolves sold Rafa Mir for a fee of £13.7million in 2021, despite only playing four games for the club, all of which came during the 2017/18 season.

It was a unique scenario, but a move that suited both parties, with Mir clearly being better suited to the Spanish game, and Wolves making a huge £12.2million profit on a player that plenty of supporters would have, naturally, forgotten about given the success the club was having at that point in time.

Mir's time at Molineux didn't live up to expectations, but he's shown in Spain that there's a good player there, and in terms of finances, it was actually an excellent signing because they made a huge profit on the player, even if it may not have been a good signing in terms of his performances on the pitch.

Perhaps he could have been given a second chance at Wolves in the summer of 2021 after his spell at Huesca, but the opportunity to cash in on a player who'd barely featured would have been too good for the club to turn down.

Rafa Mir's time at Molineux would be best described as bizarre. Signed for £1.5million, four appearances, no goals, but then sold for £13.7million a few years later. A strange signing, but one that clearly helped Wolves massively in terms of their finances during a time when their Premier League counterparts have been struggling somewhat.