Crazy Diamond Posted 22 January, 2012 Share Posted 22 January, 2012 That is, in the transfer market. I've not really thought about free transfers that come good for us, more money making sales. Two immediately spring to my mind, but I'm sure the more experienced of Saints fans might remember something from yesteryear. My nominations would be first of all Kevin Davies to Blackburn. Bought for £750,000 and sold for £7.5m plus James Beattie. Ten goals in 82 appearances and in addition to that, no money went to Chesterfield as they didn't negotiate a sell on clause. The other would be, God rest his soul, Dean Richards. A free transfer who turned into an £8.1 million signing for Spurs, probably the one most would nominate I would think. I suppose I'd also at a stretch say £1 million for David McGoldrick, since he's one of the worst professional footballers I have ever seen in my life. No doubt that some will nominate their worst, so let's clear that one up too, it's probably going to be renegotiating the Bale deal and getting Tommy Forecast... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Colinjb Posted 22 January, 2012 Share Posted 22 January, 2012 Chris Marsden? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thesaint sfc Posted 22 January, 2012 Share Posted 22 January, 2012 Fuller for 90k. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lazlo78 Posted 22 January, 2012 Share Posted 22 January, 2012 Kenwyne Jones? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Badger Posted 22 January, 2012 Share Posted 22 January, 2012 If you are only measuring it by cost sold less original cost of purchase then Richards, and Kevin Davies are clearly out on their own. If we're looking at cost and the benefits they've brought to the club then thats a different matter altogether, and off the top of my head I'd nominate: Ron Davies - £60,000 , survival and more in the oldDiv One Alan Ball - £50,000 - promotion to Div One, and establishing ourselves there playing some great football John McGrath/Jimmy Gabriel - can't even recall the fee - inspired signings who helped steady a leaky defence, and become the 'Alehouse' team. Jimmy Case - £20,000 took over the Alan Ball role. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Fat Controller Posted 22 January, 2012 Share Posted 22 January, 2012 Going into admin to get rid of Lowe and his cronies Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
doughnutman Posted 22 January, 2012 Share Posted 22 January, 2012 I would have to put Lambert out there. For a million pounds, his contribution to the club has been immense. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr Saints Posted 22 January, 2012 Share Posted 22 January, 2012 M. Svensson? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crazy Diamond Posted 22 January, 2012 Author Share Posted 22 January, 2012 Fuller for 90k. Ah Ricky Fuller. Two memories of him, neither for his football. The first seeing him sat on a fence, he randomly shouted "Mother f*ckerrrrr!". The second being stood in the Northam and a debate starting amongst those around me. Someone suddenly turned around and said "Shut up, it's obvious innit? He's Jamaican, he only plays well when the sun's out". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ashley Grute Posted 22 January, 2012 Share Posted 22 January, 2012 Getting Chamberlain from skate academy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crazy Diamond Posted 22 January, 2012 Author Share Posted 22 January, 2012 Getting Chamberlain from skate academy That's not a bad shout at all actually, good one. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lighthouse Posted 22 January, 2012 Share Posted 22 January, 2012 Roughly in order, best at the top. The Buys Chaplow - £50k Fuller - £90k Pahars - £800k Beattie - £1m Lambert - £1m Crouch - £2m The Sells Chamberlain - £15m Richards - £8m Davies - £7.5m Beattie - £6m Burley - Whatever Scotland paid for him Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
St.Jeweller Posted 22 January, 2012 Share Posted 22 January, 2012 Richard Hall was a good servant for the club even scoring a few goals from center back and was an England U21 international when West Ham paid over £1m for him i think and was hardly ever heard of again. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
norwaysaint Posted 22 January, 2012 Share Posted 22 January, 2012 Funnily enough the second sale of Davies was also very good for us. He was turning in awful performances on the occasions he was picked, seeming fat and lazy (but without MLT's regular moments of genius), but he was on enormous wages (about 20,000 a week which was loads back them) and a long contract. He was a drain on resources it looked like we'd never offload. It seemed incredible when Bolton actually bought him. Worked out very well for everyone. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rshephard3 Posted 22 January, 2012 Share Posted 22 January, 2012 Probably 15million from a league 1 youngster last season. Never even kicked a ball in the 2nd tier and pulled arsene's panties down for the price of half the stadium we play in! I believe it's 12+3 to come but even so superb negotiation from NC. Kevin Davies also a massive money maker. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Badger Posted 22 January, 2012 Share Posted 22 January, 2012 Funnily enough the second sale of Davies was also very good for us. He was turning in awful performances on the occasions he was picked, seeming fat and lazy (but without MLT's regular moments of genius), but he was on enormous wages (about 20,000 a week which was loads back them) and a long contract. He was a drain on resources it looked like we'd never offload. It seemed incredible when Bolton actually bought him. Worked out very well for everyone. They didn't buy him, he was released after his contract expired as far as I recall. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Supersubpuckett Posted 22 January, 2012 Share Posted 22 January, 2012 when we swapped davies back for ostenstad to blackburn - think we got a few million there as well Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lazlo78 Posted 22 January, 2012 Share Posted 22 January, 2012 Roughly in order, best at the top. The Buys Chaplow - £50k Fuller - £90k Pahars - £800k Beattie - £1m Lambert - £1m Crouch - £2m The Sells Chamberlain - £15m Richards - £8m Davies - £7.5m Beattie - £6m Burley - Whatever Scotland paid for him I'd still say that Kenwyne Jones should be in that list - £6M plus Stern John is an awful lot of money for a player we had signed for "a nominal fee" (I can't remember the precise amout)... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crazy Diamond Posted 22 January, 2012 Author Share Posted 22 January, 2012 Might be a controversial one, but given Walcott's debatable lack of progress at Arsenal, did we do well to get as much as we did for him? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
david in sweden Posted 22 January, 2012 Share Posted 22 January, 2012 If you are only measuring it by cost sold less original cost of purchase then Richards, and Kevin Davies are clearly out on their own. If we're looking at cost and the benefits they've brought to the club then thats a different matter altogether, and off the top of my head I'd nominate: Ron Davies - £60,000 , survival and more in the oldDiv One Alan Ball - £50,000 - promotion to Div One, and establishing ourselves there playing some great football John McGrath/Jimmy Gabriel - can't even recall the fee - inspired signings who helped steady a leaky defence, and become the 'Alehouse' team. Jimmy Case - £20,000 took over the Alan Ball role. Agree with all those Badger and they were my era and so I recall them well. of course, (as with a previous discussion about today's "actual value of money) Rory Delaps £4 million would be closer to £6 mill nowadays. ..the £60K we paid for Ron Davies in 1966 was a club record at that time, and so the Jimmy Gabriel fee ( £42,500 in August 67) was also a sizeable deal in those days.) The idea of " writing off " players when they are past 30 - even in those days - was subject to error. Coming from Arsenal when he was 31 Alan Ball gave us great service until he was almost 36.... and then made a return again for a season two years later. The others you mention (McGrath and Case), though different generations gave equally good service in their time - and we're well worth the investment (although the £30 K we paid for those two had less value in later years) - if you are purely comparing the financial aspect. Both continued to play (at a lower level until they were almost 40) and were indeed very good players on their day. However, MOST of the BEST, we've had cost ..NOTHING. Though they were spread out over a period of almost 40 years ... Terry Paine, John Sydenham, Martin Chivers, Mick Channon, Nick Holmes, Steve Williams, Bobby Stokes, Steve Moran... and MLT all signed for nothing....and managed almost 3,500 games between them ! sad to say, some of our biggest buys weren't so successful and are highly forgetable...except for the size of the fees we paid out. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sammysaint Posted 22 January, 2012 Share Posted 22 January, 2012 I would have to put Lambert out there. For a million pounds, his contribution to the club has been immense. agree in recent times best bit of buisness we have done 1 mill in return over 70 goals promotion a trophey and poss return to the prem. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sussexsaint Posted 22 January, 2012 Share Posted 22 January, 2012 If we go up the 1m we spent on Lambert will look like an absolute bargain. Especially when you consider the silly money being bandied about to stand alongside him Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
miserableoldgit Posted 22 January, 2012 Share Posted 22 January, 2012 Roughly in order, best at the top. The Buys Chaplow - £50k Fuller - £90k Pahars - £800k Beattie - £1m Lambert - £1m Crouch - £2m The Sells Chamberlain - £15m Richards - £8m Davies - £7.5m Beattie - £6m Burley - Whatever Scotland paid for him Walcott, Bridge?? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lighthouse Posted 22 January, 2012 Share Posted 22 January, 2012 Walcott, Bridge?? I thought this was the best, not the most expensive? Walcott was a class act in the Championship and has gone on to play for England several times. I'd have said £10m including all the add ons was a pretty reasonable price, as opposed to "great business" for Saints. On the other hand, £15m for a League 1 player is just insane money. £7m for Bridge was a bit of a bargain for Chelsea I'd have said. Considering they then went on to pay £30m for Ashley Cole. I'd have said Bridge was as good as Cole when we sold him, but that's just my opinion. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThreeSixty Posted 22 January, 2012 Share Posted 22 January, 2012 £7m for Bridge was a bit of a bargain for Chelsea I'd have said. Considering they then went on to pay £30m for Ashley Cole. I'd have said Bridge was as good as Cole when we sold him, but that's just my opinion. Unless you value William Gallas at £25m they didn't pay £30m for Cole. I agree Bridge was a bargain though, was very sad when he left. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
timb289 Posted 22 January, 2012 Share Posted 22 January, 2012 Augustin Delgado for £3.5m... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cricketphilly Posted 22 January, 2012 Share Posted 22 January, 2012 Keegan for the impetus it supplied Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ladysaint Posted 22 January, 2012 Share Posted 22 January, 2012 Keegan for the impetus it suppliedExactly what I was going to say remember that day well on a par with us signing Beckham today I would think Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
beatlesaint Posted 22 January, 2012 Share Posted 22 January, 2012 Getting Chamberlain from skate academy In a similar vein getting Lallana from Bournemouth. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Winnersaint Posted 22 January, 2012 Share Posted 22 January, 2012 David Armstrong around 600K when bought from Boro Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mafiboy27 Posted 22 January, 2012 Share Posted 22 January, 2012 Roughly in order, best at the top. The Buys Chaplow - £50k Fuller - £90k Pahars - £800k Beattie - £1m Lambert - £1m Crouch - £2m The Sells Chamberlain - £15m Richards - £8m Davies - £7.5m Beattie - £6m Burley - Whatever Scotland paid for him +1 from me Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VectisSaint Posted 22 January, 2012 Share Posted 22 January, 2012 Getting £125,000 for Martin Chivers was a good bit of business (British record transfer fee at the time), we had Channon and Davies, and Chivers was never really the same again apart from a couple of seasons 71-73. Was even better that the money came form the Spuds. Very disappointed when it happened, but never really missed him in hindsight. On top of that we got Frank Saul as part of the deal (oh!). More recently getting what we did for Kenwyne was not a bad piece of business especially as he didn't want to play for us. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fan The Flames Posted 22 January, 2012 Share Posted 22 January, 2012 Jimmy Case 6 years service for £30k, bargain. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cabrone Posted 22 January, 2012 Share Posted 22 January, 2012 Mark Wright came from Oxford for next to nothing and went on to be England CH. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yate Saint Posted 22 January, 2012 Share Posted 22 January, 2012 Mickey Evans. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Noodles34 Posted 22 January, 2012 Share Posted 22 January, 2012 David Hurst, Mark Hughes and Peter Reid, oh, and Stuart Ripley, Kerry Dixon and David Speedie Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Noodles34 Posted 22 January, 2012 Share Posted 22 January, 2012 and Perry Groves Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
beatlesaint Posted 22 January, 2012 Share Posted 22 January, 2012 David Hurst, Mark Hughes and Peter Reid, oh, and Stuart Ripley, Kerry Dixon and David Speedie I wouldn't include Hurst and not too sure about Reid, he wasn't bad for us short term, but the other 4 idiots without a shadow of a doubt were abysmal. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ottery st mary Posted 22 January, 2012 Share Posted 22 January, 2012 Derek Reeves.....Purchased from Bournemouth Gas Works side. Centre Forward and we woz cooking on gas thereafter:rolleyes: He was great.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Badger Posted 22 January, 2012 Share Posted 22 January, 2012 Mickey Evans. Yes, an invaluable contribution to our survival during his limited time with us. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
david in sweden Posted 22 January, 2012 Share Posted 22 January, 2012 (edited) Mark Wright came from Oxford for next to nothing and went on to be England CH. well - not quite ...In that deal we saw Trevor Hebberd, a good local product move the other way, and Oxford got an additional £80,000. I seem to recall at the time, Wright was valued at £110K. It was a good deal when you consider he was capped for England 16 times whilst with Saints before moving to Derby for a then club record fee of £760,000 (5 years later). ***I think it was undervaluing Hebberd somewhat, who had been 5 years with the club from an apprentice and played 82 games + 31 subs. He was one of the squad but McMenemy considered that he wasn't " hungry enough " to be a permanent fixture. Trevor later played 260 games for Oxford before moving onto Derby , a handful of games at Pompey, later Chesterfield and was still playing for Lincoln in 1995 (aged 37) ..before moving on to non-league Grantham. A pro. career spanning 19 years and over 500 games. Edited 22 January, 2012 by david in sweden Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
corsacar saint Posted 22 January, 2012 Share Posted 22 January, 2012 Most of the above are decent shouts.What about KK,the publicity and great football we played when he was here,will take some beating. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Give it to Ron Posted 22 January, 2012 Share Posted 22 January, 2012 Hebberd was one of thos infuriating players - had fantastic talent up to the 18 yard line then couldnt hit a cows arse with a banjo. He would get slaughtered now because of the lazy gait he had - like Oakley on mogadon Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sidthesquid Posted 22 January, 2012 Share Posted 22 January, 2012 Claus must be up there as one of the best ever bargains. The only decent signing Souness made. And going back a bit Kevin Moore, too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
david in sweden Posted 22 January, 2012 Share Posted 22 January, 2012 (edited) Mickey Evans. Yes of course, his remarkably short career helped us survive in Div.1 (1996-97).¨ Whilst we all recall Marian Pahars' part in the Great Escape of 1998-99, it was Micky Evans contribution at the end of 1996-97 that helped keep us up in Graham Souness' one season as Saints manager. Signed in March 97 (you could still sign then) he played only 8 games + 4 sub.apps - but scored 4 goals - (including two goals coming off the bench in a 3-1 win at Notts Forest), all of which earned us valuable points, and we managed to stay up by just one point. Souness left in the summer(having already signed the young Kevin Davies (later Bolton) - but with Egil Ostenstad and David Hirst also on the books, new manager Dave Jones saw Micky as surplus to requirements, and we recouped the 750K fee when he moved to West Brom, but he eventually returned to his native Plymouth (where we bought him from in the first place), and ended his 500 game career as an Argyle legend. Without Micky Evans' short, but extremely valuable career..Saints would have been relegated 9 years before they eventually went down (2005). Edited 22 January, 2012 by david in sweden Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
david in sweden Posted 22 January, 2012 Share Posted 22 January, 2012 Claus must be up there as one of the best ever bargains. ****The only decent signing Souness made. And going back a bit Kevin Moore, too. well ALMOST ...go back and read the thread about Micky Evans. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
david in sweden Posted 22 January, 2012 Share Posted 22 January, 2012 (edited) Derek Reeves.....Purchased from Bournemouth Gas Works side. Centre Forward and we woz cooking on gas thereafter:rolleyes He was great.. over 300 games and 173 goals in a 7 year period. 1955-1962 . His record later overtaken by strike partner George O'Brien. Derek Reeves name still stands with the club record of 46 goals in 1959-60. (39 in the League and 4 goals in the FA Cup massacre of Div.1 side Man.City AWAY - January 1960). Quite remarkable in that he scored those 39 in 29 of the 46 League games. His scoring consistancy was awesome. He scored in 6 consecutive games TWICE that season,and had a purple patch of 11 in 5 games in Sept/Oct ..incl.2 hat-tricks., and scored 4 in a game v. Swindon. Edited 22 January, 2012 by david in sweden Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nadia Sllim Posted 22 January, 2012 Share Posted 22 January, 2012 giving Lee Todd away. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dr Who? Posted 22 January, 2012 Share Posted 22 January, 2012 One for the future, buying Walcott back for 500k....maybe not!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dr Who? Posted 22 January, 2012 Share Posted 22 January, 2012 Speedie and Dixon and some money for shearer..... Ha ha ha suckers! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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