The Detroit Lions have made it clear that they would like to build back up the relationship with Calvin Johnson and the former star receiver has made his demands to get it to work, give him back his money. After the 2015 season, Johnson shocked a lot of people hanging up his cleats and the Lions made him pay back part of his $16 million signing bonus he had received four years earlier.

They already know what they got to do,” Johnson told the Free Press at the annual camp he runs for local high school students Saturday in metro Detroit via the Detroit Free Press. “The only way they’re going to get me back is they put that money back in my pocket. Nah, you don’t do that. I don’t care what they say. They can put it back, then they can have me back. That’s the bottom line.”

Rod Wood, the Lions president said in May he is hoping the team can work out something like they did with Barry Sanders. For years Sanders and the Lions had a strained relationship after he shocked a lot of people with his retirement. The two sides have come together now and Sanders works as a paid ambassador for the team.

“I want to kind of try and find a way to do something similar to what we’ve been doing with Barry if Calvin would be interested,” Wood said. “So that’s on my agenda to get to him and talk about it.”

If the Lions are serious about getting Johnson back in the fold, it looks like they are going to have to fork out some cash.