Anderson’s claim for the extra £6 million will be hugely controversial given the criticism he has received by fans’ groups for the money he has taken out of the club already

The sheer scale of the financial mess at Bolton Wanderers has been laid bare by a report into the club’s finances which reveals the former owner Ken Anderson is claiming he is owed £7.5 million as a secured creditor — £6 million more than the administrators have reported he is due.

Anderson put the club into administration in May and the report by the joint administrators, Paul Appleton and Asher Miller of David Rubin & Partners, details debts of £25 million owed to 294 different creditors.

These range from £10 million owed to the Fildraw Trust, which manages the affairs of the club’s late owner Eddie Davies, to £6,950 to the St John Ambulance and £6,429 to a local bakery for supplying pasties.

Anderson, who