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Got me thinking. Is it something like this? Someone with a better grasp can correct me.

2022: Buy for £20m on a 5 year contract. Immediate negative £20m on our books for this accounting year.
2023: Worth £16m (1 year down), but Rio are paying his wages so not costing us anything
2024: Worth £12m (2 years down), but Rio are paying his wages so not costing us anything
2025: Worth £8m (3 years down), but Rio are paying his wages so not costing us anything
2026: Worth £4m (4 years down), but Rio are paying his wages so not costing us anything. Now we sell him for £6m and book a £2m profit in this years accounts?

At the end of the day we've still spent £20m and received £6m back. So it's bad. But it at least helps with different accounting periods? i.e. maybe we didn't mind losing the £20m in 2022, and really needed the £2m profit in 2026?

(These are all totally fictious numbers of course just for discussion)

It’s possible that the player has no interest in a permanent move to Rio Ave, but doesn’t mind being loaned there if it’s his best option for getting games.

Reported that we paid £8m for him, can't imagine the £1.6m/£2m annual amortisation makes much difference, given our annual turnover is now north of £200m.

Maths with Mince is one of my favourite things on TB.

It's a 20m cashflow hit but the p and l hit is 4m per year.

Big news - Marinakis has taken over Forest again. Hopefully he'll need to untakeover again next February. Nothing farcical about this at all.

Don't hate the player.