Undisclosed fees

[stanistheman]

When do we actually find out just how much was paid or recieved by QPR?

[davieqpr]

You never do.Transfer fee is based on basic money plus can include add ons for first 10 games, money after a certain number of games, league position, International call up,goals etc.

[stanistheman]

You never do.Transfer fee is based on basic money plus can include add ons for first 10 games, money after a certain number of games, league position, International call up,goals etc.

maybe, but it has to be recorded somewhere and this is later out (or leaked) in the domain for people to see

[cross it Dave]

Maybe In the company accounts a year or two later?

[Gtleighsr3]

Bet the tax man doesnt seethe real fee either.

[Abseits]

Chatting to a Blades fan the other day. He thought they paid £8 million for Freeman..... I reckon "The Fee" is a very fluid concept and equates to X +/- 40% depending on whether you're the buyer or seller.

[MYU]

About £19M. We did fantastically.

[klonk]

Maybe In the company accounts a year or two later?

the accounts can tell us what the total book valuation of the sold/moved on players were and how much profit (or loss) we made on all the sales.

so for the last set of accounts (where we sold josh bowler, ben gladwin, and yeni ngbakoto):

- original cost of players that left £20.006m
- share of that cost that had been charged to the accounts already (£14.592m)
- player value written off (£2.413m - probably the remaining values of caulker, el khayati, borysiuk and karl henry)
- loss on player sales (£0.137m)

so if my maths are correct, fees recorded should be £2.864m - this probably does not include any add-ons that may be acheived later (bowler's transfer probably had loads of these for example). the accounts also say that we only had £64k in unpaid transfer fees due to us at the end of the 17-18 season, so presumably we got more or less all the cash upfront (so no payments in installments). (for comparison purposes, we still had £4.9m to be paid to us at the end of the previous season)