Record fees outside Parachute payments

[MagpieBee]

Ours is Liam Boyce at an undisclosed fee but will be over 500k as that was the release fee. Some say it's as much as 750k plus two crates of irn bru.
Pathetic compared to others but a lot for us.

I suspect he'll do quite well this year for you. He'll do very well in L1 if you ever go back down there

 

[Bartonyellow]

I suspect he'll do quite well this year for you. He'll do very well in L1 if you ever go back down there

I think If and when that day comes - and he is good - he would be off. I am sure he has aspirations of bigger and better things.

 

[mossypne]

1.5M for David Healy 17 years ago...

 

[Bluebird_Dai]

Before we had Premier League money we paid £3 million for Michael Chopra from Sunderland, after selling him to them for £5 million.
Our record signing is Gary Medel at £11 million.

 

[SMH]

Is it just me, or do most teams' record signings turn out to be complete flops? Ours is "officially" Charlie N'Zogbia for 6.5m but I'd be willing to bet our actual record signing is Mauro Boselli who was rumoured to be around 7m rather than the 5.8m the press reported.

Since we came back down our most expensive signing was probably Adam Forshaw at 2.5m, with Grant Holt coming second at 2m (shudders). Although Owen Coyle wanted to sell James McCarthy (around 13m) and use the money to buy Jordan Rhodes for 8m on deadline day in 2013. Whelan said no, then sold McCarthy anyway right on the deadline. Apparently Coyle went mental and their relationship never really recovered from that. Whelan sacked him about three months later.

 

[Luke_1884]

We've unfortunately smashed our record over and over in the past few years, I think we broke it three times in one summer when we signed Ince, Butterfield and Johnson.

Vydra is our current one, signed last summer in a deal worth 8 million. Fucking outrageous. Cheers Nige.

 

[Cornish Piskie]

Weller started at Spurs

Yeah, in pretty much the same way that Theo Walcott started at Southampton or Gary Cahill started at Villa. or Jermain Defoe started at Charlton. I guess it depends how far you want to go back. Harry Kane started at Ridgeway Rovers and was a youth player on Arsenal's books. Wanna try to sell that at Spurs..?

Weller did indeed play his first few league games at Spurs, but it was his time at Millwall where he learned the game and became the player that attracted a big money (for that time) transfer.

My comment was in response to a post by Etienne Vermeer and was intended to find out what he thought of Millwall's historic experiences in the transfer market vis-a-vis their top flight ambitions.

 

[Etienne Vermeer]

Yeah, in pretty much the same way that Theo Walcott started at Southampton or Gary Cahill started at Villa. or Jermain Defoe started at Charlton. I guess it depends how far you want to go back. Harry Kane started at Ridgeway Rovers and was a youth player on Arsenal's books. Wanna try to sell that at Spurs..?

Weller did indeed play his first few league games at Spurs, but it was his time at Millwall where he learned the game and became the player that attracted a big money (for that time) transfer.

My comment was in response to a post by Etienne Vermeer and was intended to find out what he thought of Millwall's historic experiences in the transfer market vis-a-vis their top flight ambitions.

Something like that.

Back to our terrible purchase history; I truly can't remember the last "big" signing we made who worked out. Our best signings are usually unheralded lower league players we've given a shot like Morison, Gregory, and of course Harris; or unknowns from abroad like Cahill, Neill, Keller etc. Since we haven't produced any youngsters worth a damn for some time, it's up to our scouts to make sure we get some half decent players.

 

[markwwfc1992]

George Saville and Jed Wallace will both do a job at Millwall I think.

 

[Millwall_Matt]

Something like that.

Back to our terrible purchase history; I truly can't remember the last "big" signing we made who worked out. Our best signings are usually unheralded lower league players we've given a shot like Morison, Gregory, and of course Harris; or unknowns from abroad like Cahill, Neill, Keller etc. Since we haven't produced any youngsters worth a damn for some time, it's up to our scouts to make sure we get some half decent players.

Not big money, but Barry Hayles was a "name" when we signed him, as of course was Wise. Both of them worked out well. Dichio? Colin Cooper was decent money for the time (300k in 91?)

 

[Etienne Vermeer]

Not big money, but Barry Hayles was a "name" when we signed him, as of course was Wise. Both of them worked out well. Dichio? Colin Cooper was decent money for the time (300k in 91?)

I did say it'd been a while! Cooper's a good shout, I think we'd have gone up in 1994 had we kept him.

 

[Cornish Piskie]

As I've said in a previous post, I think it's a pretty good shout to buy "horses for courses". Spend as much as you need to buy players who are performers in the Championship in order to get promoted, and keep your powder dry (and your bank balance steady) so that you then have the resources to upgrade the squad when (if) you make the top flight.

Dead easy this management lark, innit..?

 

[SF_]

1.5M for David Healy 17 years ago...

Beyond that we've got the sensational midfield trio of Richard Chaplow, Darren Carter and Kevin Nicholls who cost about £3.4m combined with addons and what not.

Paul Simpson and Alan Irvine can die in a fire.

 

[LancashireTrotters]

Our highest is Johan Elmander around the £10 million mark. Didn't get much in return from him.

The days of spending millions on players who didn't work out i.e. Knight (£4 million), N'Gog (£4 million), Sordell (£3 million) and so on... are long gone. At least for the time being anyway. I've forgot what it's like to pay for a player now I think about it?

Being the massive club that we are, we broke the world record transfer fee a couple of times in the 20's for David Jack and Dick Pym. The latter purchase helped Exeter City buy their ground.