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Post by Bojan Mackey on Oct 8, 2015 16:23:53 GMT
James Beattie & Matthew Etherington.
£3.5 million and a free transfer, I remain convinced to this day that the signing of those two kept us in the Premier League, I think I'd pay £3.5 million for that privilege.
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Post by Lakeland Potter on Oct 8, 2015 16:25:18 GMT
Whelan in the last 30 years. £500.000, instrumental to promotion in first season, everpresent for 8 seasons in a very critical position for the team, hardly ever injured, he even came back after 4 weeks from a leg fracture. 70 odd caps for his country. A brilliant role model in an era of prima donna's. Amazing signing! I'd agree with all that. Except that your definition of "ever present" must be different to mine. In virtually all the seasons since he joined us he has had spells on the bench and has had to fight his way back into the side.
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Post by baystokie on Oct 8, 2015 16:25:54 GMT
By SIGNINGS (not necessarily TRANSFERS?), then -
Neil Franklin, Stan Matthews, Freddie Steele - all £10 signing on fees
All the near-First Division champions team of 1947 cost about the same
So, £110 for a team that finished 4th in the First Division!
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Post by outspaced on Oct 8, 2015 16:52:32 GMT
I must mention some players from our third tier days.
Steve Foley Nigel Gleghorn Graham Shaw Sergei Shtaniuk Peter Handyside Vince Overson Mark Stein
Another I've just thought of from the Mick Mills era. One of my favourite ever players, the one and only......Johnny Butler!!!
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Post by samba :) on Oct 8, 2015 21:43:19 GMT
Got to be the academy's signing of wilko from stone dominoes for nothing
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Post by a.d.faye.god on Oct 8, 2015 21:50:31 GMT
Abdoulaye Faye has to be mentioned, low fee and went on to be at the heart of everything we did in the first few seasons.
Also an invaluable contribution to ryan's development while he was here, too.
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Post by broomey1983 on Oct 8, 2015 22:03:53 GMT
Kyle Lightbourne has got to be one of the worst, he was shite and cost £500k which was mega bucks for us then
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Post by Skankmonkey on Oct 8, 2015 22:22:42 GMT
Kyle Lightbourne has got to be one of the worst, he was shite and cost £500k which was mega bucks for us then Yep. £23,800 per league goal 21/112 Lg apps. Jigsaw(£300k) £27,300 per lg gl 11/91 Lg apps. Both terrible! <smiley> EDIT Mind you, Keith Scott cost £300k ffs! Lethal Keith(£300k) £100,000 per Lg goal 3/25 Lg apps. EDIT2 Gerry McMahon £450k :-(
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Post by Deleted on Oct 8, 2015 22:36:30 GMT
I don't suppose Coatesy felt he got much return on the £1million he invested 89/90 either. Relatively speaking that was a body blow and he tended towards parsimony after that. As we noticed. Two of them - Bertie and Crannie were worth every penny, though it wouldn't have looked that way at the end of their first season. Coates also managed to get most of his money back within a few months with the sale of Beagrie. The cynic in me believes that was always the fall back option. Beagrie was decent value for money. Bought for about £200k then sold a season or so later for £700k. I'd chuck in Vince Overson. Worth £50k of anyone's money.
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Post by Skankmonkey on Oct 8, 2015 22:44:18 GMT
I don't suppose Coatesy felt he got much return on the £1million he invested 89/90 either. Relatively speaking that was a body blow and he tended towards parsimony after that. As we noticed. Two of them - Bertie and Crannie were worth every penny, though it wouldn't have looked that way at the end of their first season. Coates also managed to get most of his money back within a few months with the sale of Beagrie. The cynic in me believes that was always the fall back option. Beagrie was decent value for money. Bought for about £200k then sold a season or so later for £700k. I'd chuck in Vince Overson. Worth £50k of anyone's money. It was a real sickener that season. Optimism at first - Millsy had a budget and the more time(!) he asked for. Then came the saga of Cransons knees. By the sale of Beagrie the penny had dropped and by Bally and the Bamber/Ellis partnership it had become a farce. Grim.
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Post by outspaced on Oct 8, 2015 22:48:36 GMT
Value for money - the fantastic Tony Ford.
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Post by Skankmonkey on Oct 8, 2015 23:00:11 GMT
Value for money - the fantastic Tony Ford. Definitely!
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Post by tomkinson67 on Oct 8, 2015 23:09:23 GMT
Now there was a player. Didn't the bank say we had to sell someone or else-so Tony was on his way?
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Post by outspaced on Oct 8, 2015 23:33:31 GMT
Tone ripped Mick Mills to shreds in a game against Grimsby so much that Millsy went and bought him!
Liked his wingers did Mick....
Fordy Beagrie Gary Hackett
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Post by stantheman on Oct 8, 2015 23:34:02 GMT
The 3 'R's
Ric Ryan Rory
Combined total of £2 million.
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Post by njkk on Oct 9, 2015 0:00:37 GMT
Didn't we get Duberry from Leeds for nowt then sell him to Reading for £1m? that has to be VFM
But Whelan has to be the best bit of business we've done for a player still with us
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Post by Deleted on Oct 9, 2015 0:17:22 GMT
Two of them - Bertie and Crannie were worth every penny, though it wouldn't have looked that way at the end of their first season. Coates also managed to get most of his money back within a few months with the sale of Beagrie. The cynic in me believes that was always the fall back option. Beagrie was decent value for money. Bought for about £200k then sold a season or so later for £700k. I'd chuck in Vince Overson. Worth £50k of anyone's money. It was a real sickener that season. Optimism at first - Millsy had a budget and the more time(!) he asked for. Then came the saga of Cransons knees. By the sale of Beagrie the penny had dropped and by Bally and the Bamber/Ellis partnership it had become a farce. Grim. Definitely among the weirdest of seasons. Even now, I still think we were close to having a promotion side. How we managed to turn it into a relegation season still mystifies me. I thought Mills had earned the right to be given a bit of dosh after he'd halted what looked like an inevitable slide down the leagues. Then again, I also thought Bally would be the new messiah. Man, he talked a good game!
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Post by ukcstokie on Oct 9, 2015 0:50:54 GMT
What about Huddy's second coming in 1984? Turned a side doomed to relegation around. Thought he came on a free (although Wiki tells me it was £22.5k)?
I'd go for 3 from: Ryan Rory Glen Fuller Bojan
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Post by Deleted on Oct 9, 2015 3:36:19 GMT
Best - Stein
Worst - take your pick from Gordon Marshall, John Clarke, Gary Bannister, Wilson Palacios, Andrew Davies, Tom Soares, Marco Gabbiadini (the list is endless!)
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Post by salopstick on Oct 9, 2015 5:48:58 GMT
Delap has to be one Free? Loads of assists, loads of good press, a great representative of club and city
Helped get us where we are now more than some
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Post by mrcoke on Oct 9, 2015 6:09:39 GMT
Best in last 10 years = Got to be Sorro hasn't it? to get a keeper of that quality with the experience he had for free was a masterstroke! Best ever = Steino, for no other reason than i always wanted to have his babies because he was just a ickle bit spesh! Good point. The club's history could have been different if we had kept Matthews and Franklin*. *Edit: not a transfer, I know.
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Post by cobhamstokey on Oct 9, 2015 6:09:59 GMT
Tonge and Soares were very poor signings. Didn't Lightbourne cost quite a lot.
Faye, Delap. Ethers ezcellent. In the more distant past Chambo, Fox, Mickey Thomas, McIlroy and bringing Huddo back were excellent,
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Post by BristolMick on Oct 9, 2015 7:52:44 GMT
The three names that came instantly to me as best value signings are;-
Ricardo Fuller Mark Stein Mike Sheron
There are plenty of contenders for worst and I'm surprised no one mentioned Vincent Pericard but he's the not worst value because we didn't pay for him but how TFP deemed him a premier league footballer I'll never fathom.
Pericard was so bad that when Ricardo Fuller saw him just about to be introduced to the action by TFP at Upton Park (as he was about to kick off after conceding) it incensed him so much that this waste of space was about to come on that he twatted captain Griffin so he wouldn't have to play along side him.
BM
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Post by seychellesstokie on Oct 9, 2015 8:02:59 GMT
Special mention for four million pound man Maurice Edu as one of the most awful and baffling
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Post by ohbottom on Oct 9, 2015 8:11:51 GMT
Best has to be Mike Sheron. Here's your Mike Sheron, that's just one Keith Scott please!! That's a good shout. I mean, Scott was such a negative "asset" it's almost like they were paying us to take Sheron!
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Post by foster on Oct 9, 2015 8:14:55 GMT
So to summarise, those that said in the Whelan thread that he's our best value signing 'ever' were clearly talking out of their arses. He barely makes any top 3 lists.
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Post by reddipotter on Oct 9, 2015 8:18:59 GMT
Gerry Taggart was vital in keeping us up, and somewhat earlier, Howard Kendall was very influential.
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Post by Bick on Oct 9, 2015 11:52:25 GMT
Faye / Beattie / Ethers
Big reasons we stayed up that first year... and very little outlay.
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Post by simpson on Oct 9, 2015 11:54:46 GMT
what about the supposed £4m on shola ameobi on loan haha
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Post by Deleted on Oct 9, 2015 11:56:06 GMT
Nzonzi, Delap, Beattie.
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