Talk:British football transfer record
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A few others I've found trawling through old Rothmans, but I'm not certain about:
| September 1979 | Steve Daley | Wolverhampton Wanderers | Manchester City | £1.15m | rising to £1.44m? |
| September 1979 | Andy Gray | Aston Villa | Wolverhampton Wanderers | £1.175m | before or after Daley? |
| June 1980 | Clive Allen | Queens Park Rangers | Arsenal | £1.25m |
Also, wasn't Trevor Francis's transfer just under £1m (Rothmans says £975,000, I've also heard £999,999) in an attempt to not give him the pressure of being the first million pound player? sjorford (talk) 12:54, 7 January 2006 (UTC)
- It seems that Gray was signed three days after Daley was sold - [1]. The fees involved for both were in the £1.4m region, from what that page (and others) note.
- As for Allen, his fee at the time was not a record, as both Daley and Gray had gone for more. My Arsenal books record a fee of £1.2m from his move from QPR, though they don't disclose the fee Arsenal took when they sold him to Crystal Palace three weeks later. I've added in Gray into the table but left Allen out.
- Also, I've added some more records from an old (1995) edition of the Guinnes Book of Records, and some from [2], but I'm not totally sure of that page's veracity. Qwghlm 15:47, 8 January 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Comment by 82.35.12.25 moved here from article
David Mills was transferred from Middlesbrough to West Bromwich Albion, not the other way round.
- Indeed he was. I've changed it accordingly Oldelpaso 07:35, 13 May 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Early players
I'm dubious as to the veracity of some of the earlier records listed. In researching the career of Tommy Browell, I found that he was transferred from Hull to Everton for £1,650 in December 1911, and from Everton to Manchester City for £1,780 in October 1913. The source describes the fees as large for the time, but does not refer to them as records, so presumably the record was higher than this. Oldelpaso 12:53, 20 January 2007 (UTC)
How about transfers involving 'non-League' clubs ? Jock Walker (Swindon Town & Scotland FB) was transferred to Middlesbrough on 3 Apr 1913 for £1,376 (£1,126 + Allan McRobbie £250).Paplo9 18:56, 17 February 2007 (UTC)
