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Nahki Wells, as much as he went to Huddersfield we got him for free and went for upwards of a million?

 

I'll go out on a limb...committing ourselves to about £8m in wages for Benito Carbone plus signing-on fees was insanity. Nothing against him, he was a superb footballer but not what we needed.

Best signing was probably £50k for Beagrie. Tremendous player.

 

@Bronco - Graham Oates had stupendous sidies!

 

We paid a fee for Bruenker, Topp wasn’t free either IIRC. Mark Stewart who we ended up paying £250k for after a tribunal. Andy Tod was £100k I think

 

John Docherty certainly brought some rubbish to Valley Parade but as you say we got good money for Phill Badd and he brought Sean McCarthy to the club and again moved on for good money.

 

Manchester City.

 

"Jimmy the Tree"

 

Robbie James was a good signing by the dreaded JD, if I recall also on a free?

 

Its pretty much undisputable that Hopkin wasn't our worst ever signing. £2.5m for absolute shite. What did he muster up? 10 games?

Best signing - Beagrie £50k or Wells £0.

 

Andy Thomas came in with Jagger.

 

Clarke would be the one to run him close. And I think theres a case to say Clarke was better on the basis of his performances being in the PL rather than the championship and he was here longer too. But if you compare the careers of both, Schwarzer played at the top level for longer, for several clubs and he was one of the best keepers in the league while doing so. Brilliant player. I was actually at his debut, away to Charlton. I've never seen a debut performance like it. He was sensational.

I get depressed looking back - for a few years there, we were a properly run, ambitious and progressive club.

 

Yes on money spent he has to be the worst valley for money

 

Don't know for certain but didn't we pay quite a bit for Ashley Ward..?

 

Not 1 particular player but that’s season where we spend 0.5M on Reeves, Mcartan and Poleon was diabolical recruitment.

 

I thought Mick Woods came to Valley Parade as part of the deal but apparently not Oates went to Blackburn in 1974 and Woods came to us in 1978, could have sworn there was a player swap between the two clubs, any help ?.

 

Les Chapman, Nicky Summerbee, Mark Marshall, Kyle Reid..when you think about it we have struck lucky hopefully more times than not over the years......

 

As we all did in those days .

 

I remember reading daily star sports page on Magaluf beach in 97 and we had signed Beagrie and Lawrence for 50k each. Could never have imagined then how good they would be.
What about Jimmy Quinn, not here long but classy player. Think he went to WHU? but cant remember where he came from or for how much

 

We had a glut of players from Millwall as FT in early 90s.
Ste Torpey, Wesley Reid, Alan Dowson, Darren Morgan, Darren Treacy and a certain Phil Babb who went to Cov for good money. Reid was ok and think went to Airdrie.

 

We had a glut of players from Millwall as FT in early 90s.
Ste Torpey, Wesley Reid, Alan Dowson, Darren Morgan, Darren Treacy and a certain Phil Babb who went to Cov for good money. Reid was ok and think went to Airdrie.