Due to a high financial debt, which at one point reached 4 million Euros, the club could not afford to buy new players.

The club cannot afford a repeat of their last promotion success.

The club cannot afford to wait until midseason to find out whether they can even play.

Negotiations fell through as the club could not afford his wages.

But that success created a wage structure the club could not afford.

It's just a question of which clubs can afford me.

It was an amount the club could not afford to refuse.

Membership fell to 51, and the club could not afford a manager.

The whole plan was estimated to cost £6 million, which no other club could have afforded in a short space of time.

Although he played well whilst on trial, the club could not afford to offer him a contract.