Fulham, who are armed with the considerable financial advantage of parachute payments which are doled out to clubs who flop in the top flight, could field a side at the Weston Homes Stadium that cost £94 million.
They would also have players worth a good few million on the substitutes’ bench.
In contrast the likely Posh starting line-up cost a total of £2.725 million, a figure that would move close to £4 million if Jonson Clarke-Harris starts.
Fulham paid eight times more than that to bring attacking midfielder Jean Seri to Craven Cottage from Nice.
The Londoners splashed out a cool £25 million on him having spent £22 million a few years earlier on centre-forward Aleksander Mitrovic from Newcastle United.
Mitrovic has always struggled to score goals at Premier League level, but can’t stop scoring them in the Championship. Almost every single player in our Fulham starting line-up cost more than the most expensive Posh player (Sammie Szmodics).
The exception is goalkeeper Marek Rodak who is a graduate from the Fulham Academy.
Other transfer fees paid by Posh highlight the club’s outstanding scouting network. Remarkably Ronnie Edwards didn’t cost Posh more than £100k when signed from Barnet and the Peterborough Telegraph has been told Siriki Dembele was a cut-price £175k from Grimsby.
We’ve compared the cost of the squads below...
1. MAREK RODAK (free)
Cost: Free (Academy graduate). One of the more reliable Championship goalkeepers and a big plus for the club’s Academy. Posh goalkeeper Dai Cornell also cost nothing, (Photo by ANDREW COULDRIDGE/POOL/AFP via Getty Images).
2. KENNY TETE - £3.2 million
Cost: £3.2 million from Lyon. A right-back who has started fewer than half of Fulham’s Championship matches this season. Frankie Kent could be the right-sided defender for Posh tomorrow and he cost a reported £350k from Colchester. (Photo by Marc Atkins/Getty Images).
3. ANTONEE ROBINSON - £2 million
Cost: £2 million from Wigan. A dashing left-back who would have cost a lot more if Wigan hadn’t been in such dire financial straits. Dan Butler could play as a left-back for Posh tomorrow and he was a free transfer from Newport. (Photo by Jacques Feeney/Getty Images).
4. TIM REAM - £2 million
Cost: £2 million from Bolton. A United States international who has made more than 200 appearances for Fulham. Ronnie Edwards will be one of the Posh centre-backs tomorrow and he cost £100k from Barnet. (Photo by Justin Setterfield/Getty Images).