[theo_luddite]

Wages, transfers and loans paid back to DH for the most part AmChaff. It's very easy to say where did the money go when you don't see the accounts and balance sheets on a daily/weekly/monthly basis.

25 players/coaches on an average of £10,000 per week x 52 weeks = £13 million a year as an example.

In addition to the astronomical wages some players get, you've all the coaches, other staff and younger players to pay plus other equipment costs, that you try to get sponsors to pay for, but that isn't happening much either. Even office staff on minimum wages still need paying. No idea what running costs for the stadium are (not our issue I know, but they get a payment from us based on %age of our gates - or season tickets as there's no gates to count) or the training grounds costs.

Yes we've some money coming back in from transfers but the headline numbers don't come in at the point of transfer. They are almost always over whatever the length of the players contract or negotiated for a larger lump sum and maybe a shorter number of years. So IF we got £15m from WBA for Grant, it will likely be £3m per year over 5 years (I believe his contract length). Whether we've already got the first £3m or that is spread into monthly payments across each season too I don't know. Need to ask Town's bean counters how that works. Fact is we've not brought in 'owt like as much in transfer fees as we've spent and we've let a lot go for free at the end of their contracts after paying silly money in the Prem.

The only other thing that shortens the repayments is if WBA sell him on or cancel his contract inside the 5 years - then they have to pay the outstanding sum in full, pronto.