On PSRwatch's ledger David Button costs Ipswich Town about £1m a year in 2026/27: £1m of wages (reported gross salary) and £0m of annual transfer-fee cost. That is 0.2 percentage points of the club's squad-cost ratio, the 36th highest cost of 36 on the squad and 602nd of 621 named players in the league. Book value remaining £0m; contract to 2026-06-30 (contract ends this summer). Independent PSRwatch estimates, not official figures.
0.2 pts of the ratio at £227m of football income.
Gross pay before the player's own tax; bonuses, image rights and employer NI are not in it.
Unamortised transfer cost. Not what the player is worth; a sale above it is book profit.
To 2026-06-30, signing date not reported.
£0m above book value.
Transfer fee and how it is written down
Arrived on a free transfer or a loan, so there is no acquisition cost to amortise.
Nothing to run off: no acquisition cost and no reported contract end.
Accounting basis only. A second column applying the regulators' amortisation cap is deliberately not shown until the rule text, its effective date and its applicability to this signing are sourced and encoded (see the methodology page). The wage column assumes the current wage runs to contract end.
What is still to come
At the reported salary, to contract end.
No charge to run off.
Of a 46% club ratio; 0.4% of the squad ledger.
Transfer history
- 2025/26 Joined on a free Reading FC to Ipswich Townfee £0mSource page
Moves come from provider club-season transfer pages (specialist database, tier 3), collected and committed by PSRwatch. Fees are as reported there; undisclosed stays undisclosed.