The ever-expanding transfer fee

So how much did will we end up paying for Dean Ashton? Back in the heady days of summer Clancy informed us that "we actually paid £4.5m in total for Dean" not, you will note, "will have paid". So presumably the £400,000 that will be paying to Crewe in January is on top of that?

For years the reason that the club is not "awash with cash" was blamed on Chase. I wonder if the "Ashton cost us more than you thought" excuse will last as long?

Clancy may be in for a shock in January though - Granty is a lot brighter than some of the previous incumbents at Carrow Road and is well capable of subtracting £1.75 million and £400,000 from £3.5 million, and then adding back the MacKenzie and Green fees and coming up with a nice big transfer budget. Will Clancy "be as transparent as possible" with him and admit that the reason there is no money is because the finances are out of control?