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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.

Unless it's Cucurella.

He wouldn't even be top 5 historically though, would he? With the likes of Branch, Muscat, Keogh and their ilk in our past?

Who would make our most hated five?
Obviously Branch, Aldridge. Savage.
Not a player, but I'd add smiling Roger Milford to any hate list.
But Keogh became more of a laughing stock than hate figure.
A lot of players were absolutely hated when they left, but not so much now - Keane, Charles, Collymore for example

I don’t like Windass.

I've never remotely even disliked Keane, Collymore, or Charles. Bad fan, maybe.

Aldridge and Savage, of course.

Ward was up there until the annoying cunt came to play for us and was pretty good and instrumental in us staying up.

I think people have forgotten how much Webb was despised.

Yeah Windass. Savage. Branch. Keogh.

Cucerella and Fernandes in the more modern times I really can't stand.

I don’t really hate Fernandes. I’d just really like to punch him in his stupid, punchable, face. Knock his goofy fucking teeth his throat.

Ahem.

Luis Suarez. Biting, diving cunt. Plus the Evra racist abuse, which saw the Poo players respond to Suarez's 8 game ban by wearing warm up t shirts with his face on.