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.
9. NOTES
Posh have received additional payments from the Toney deal, but it's also important to note the club paid out over £1 million in promotion bonuses relating to the 2020-21 League One season after the owners had bankrolled the club when there was no income from attendances. Posh also signed Ryan Broom from Cheltenham for around £300k a week before Toney left. In the 12 months after Toney’s departure significant sales by Posh included Mo Eisa (pictured) to MK Dons and teenager Flynn Clarke to Norwich City. Notable sales since then include Siriki Dembele to Bournemouth, Szmodics to Blackburn and Joe Taylor to Luton, but 5 permanent signings have also arrived in that time including a costly one to bring Jeando Fuchs to London Road from Dundee United. Posh spent money on Hector Kyprianou, David Ajiboye and Ephron Mason-Clark last summer and received money for Broom and Grant. Posh sold Jack Marriott to Fleetwood for around £250k in January. Photo: Pete Norton