Peterborough United re-invested the original fee for Ivan Toney in the playing squad within 12 months

​The original fee was £6 million with add ons for goals scored, a Brentford promotion from the Championship and their subsequent survival in the Premier League.

Posh will get £1 million this summer when Brentford’s Premier League status is confirmed for another season.

This next payment takes Posh close to the £10 million cap placed on the original transfer, although a deal brokered entirely by MacAnthony and the London club still guarantees a healthy sell on percentage when new England cap Toney makes an inevitable move to one of the Premier League’s biggest hitters.

It looks like a cracking piece of transfer work conducted at a time when football clubs were struggling financially because of Covid.

And, for those wondering, the original transfer fee of £6 million was effectively re-invested in the playing squad within 12 months.

The add ons, not all of which have been received yet, have also been used to fund promotion pushes at a time when the club is trying to reduce its debt level.