Will Hoskins - most expensive signing ever?

[Superphil]

Where, apart from paper speculation does it say any of this?

 

[Icy Gull]

Did we actually pay 500k for Ritchie, I had it in my head that there was a three way deal that took Ward to Forest, Birtles to United and Ritchie to us?

 

[bhaexpress]

Did we actually pay 500k for Ritchie, I had it in my head that there was a three way deal that took Ward to Forest, Birtles to United and Ritchie to us?

Birtles went to United for £1,200000, Ward went to Forest for £400000 and Ritchie came here for £500000.Personally I think we should have not got involved but Mullery always seemed to have an issue with players he hadn't signed.

 

[GusIsGod]

Aslong as he does the job, who cares!

 

[El Presidente]

I think we had to give Bristol Rovers 1/3 of any profit when we sold Bobby Z, so technically he is our most expensive at £520,000 (£100,000 + 1/3 x £1.4 million)

 

[El Presidente]

Birtles went to United for £1,200000, Ward went to Forest for £400000 and Ritchie came here for £500000.Personally I think we should have not got involved but Mullery always seemed to have an issue with players he hadn't signed.

That's another example of rewriting history. Ward played under Mullery for over 4 years.

 

[Muzzy]

I expect the club record to be a 7 digit number by August.

On the basis of what? Please let us know what you have heard?

If our budget is £4 mill ish, including wages. 6/7 new signings cannot possibly mean spending 7 figures on 1 player shirley?

 

[GoldWithFalmer]

Good job Bristol rovers turned us down at the 1st time of asking-saved us nearly £1/2m

 

[DT Withdean]

On the basis of what? Please let us know what you have heard?

If our budget is £4 mill ish, including wages. 6/7 new signings cannot possibly mean spending 7 figures on 1 player shirley?

Frutos. You are dead right.
The Albions' turnover will be £15m to £20m, compared to £4.5m at Withdean.

Champ' clubs (those without PL parachute payments) have turnover > £15m. The evidence, in their audited accounts & in Deloitte's tables.

And 70% is typical ratio spent on player wages. Let alone transfer fees.

Brighton now have an awful lot of income.

By 1st September you will be proved correct, possibly in 2 or 3 signings.

 

[GoldWithFalmer]

Frutos. You are dead right.
The Albions' turnover will be £15m to £20m, compared to £4.5m at Withdean.

Champ' clubs (those without PL parachute payments) have turnover > £15m. The evidence, in their audited accounts & in Deloitte's tables.

And 70% is typical ratio spent on player wages. Let alone transfer fees.

Brighton now have an awful lot of income.

By 1st September you will be proved correct, possibly in 2 or 3 signings.

and £4m from tv revenue plus a £2m consolidation payment from the Prem to off set parachute payments(that's £6m already)

 

[Spunk Bubble]

Since Andy Richie.

Ritchie even

 

[severnside gull]

reckon we will pay £750K for Buckley and he won't end up as our top signing come August.
I think that honour will be reserved for one Kazenga LuaLua

 

[GoldWithFalmer]

reckon we will pay £750K for Buckley and he won't end up as our top signing come August.
I think that honour will be reserved for one Kazenga LuaLua

Me too

 

[forumwayseagull]

Reckon 1 million for LL....

AS for the strikers?? Tyson and Earnshaw both going for free...

 

[Blackadder]

Here are some more.

Barnsley
Martin Devaney
Andy Gray
Matt Hill
Garry O'Connor
David Preece

Bristol City
Louis Carey
Lee Johnson
Ivan Sproule
Stephen Henderson
John Akinde
Pat Hoban
Jimmy Keohane
Joe Edwards
Danny Ball

Burnley
Wade Elliott
Chris McCann
Steven Thompson
Kevin McDonald
Remco van der Schaaf

Cardiff
Jay Bothroyd
Chris Burke
Adam Matthews
Gavin Rae

Coventry
Nathan Cameron
Lee Carsley
Jordan Clarke
Aron Gunnarsson
Danny Ireland
Marlon King
Michael McIndoe
Stephen O'Halloran
Isaac Osbourne
Kieren Westwood
Connor Grogan
Shaun Jeffers
Michael Quirke

Crystal Palace
Neil Danns
Claude Davis
Steffen Iversen


Derby
Michael Boulding
Saul Deeney
Chris Porter

Doncaster
Steve Brooker
James Chambers
Paul Keegan
Dean Shiels
Dennis Souza
Neill Sullivan
Wayne Thomas
Ryan Burge
Byron Webster

Hull
Nick Barmby
Matt Duke
Craig Fagan
Richard García
Mark Oxley
Nolberto Solano
Kevin Kilbane
Anthony Gardner
Will Atkinson

Ipswich
Troy Brown
Damien Delaney
Tom Eastman
Carlos Edwards
Colin Healy
Conor Hourihane
Luke Hyam
Arran Lee-Barrett
Gareth McAuley
Brian Murphy
David Norris
Alan Quinn
Kevin Lisbie
Pablo Counago

Leeds
Shane Higgs
Bradley Johnson
Neil Kilkenny
Patrick Kisnorbo
Richard Naylor
Zac Thompson
Will Hatfield

Leicester
Ricardo
Aleksandar Tunchev
Darius Vassell

Middlesbrough
Julio Arca
Danny Coyne
Willo Flood
Andrew Taylor

Millwall
Shaun Batt
Danny Schofield
Marc Laird
Andy Frampton
John Sullivan

Norwich
Jens Berthel Askou
Matthew Gill
Josh Dawkin
Sam Habergham
Matthew Ball

Nottingham Forest
Dele Adebola
Julian Bennett
Robert Earnshaw
Guy Moussi
Zannetos Mytides
Nialle Rodney

Portsmouth
Michael Brown
Nadir Ciftci
Darryl Flahavan
Hermann Hreidarsson
Richard Hughes
David Nugent
Danny Webber
Peter Gregory
Tom Kilbey

Preston
Andreas Arestidou
Chris Brown
Darren Carter
Jamie Douglas
Billy Jones
Neal Trotman

QPR
Radek Cerny
Heidar Helguson
Peter Ramage
Martin Rowlands
Danny shittu
Georgios Tofas
Gavin Mahon

Reading
Brynjar Gunnarsson
Ivar Ingimarsson
Hal Robson-Kanu

Scunthorpe United
David Mirfin
Joe Murphy
Eddie Nolan
Sam Slocombe
Josh Wright
Paris Cowan-Hall
Ian Morris

Sheffield United
Ryan France
Rob Kozluk

Swansea
Ferrie Bodde
Thomas Butler
Dorus de Vries
Yves Ma-Kalambay
Darren Pratley
Angel Rangel
Albert Serran
Cederic Van der Gun
Gorka Pintado

Watford
Dale Bennett
Don Cowie
Matt Whichelow
Nathan Ellington
Rob Kiernan
Mat Sadler

 

[SirElliotBennett]

I still think we will sign a player for even more some time this summer

 

[Rich Suvner]

I still think we will sign a player for even more some time this summer

also agree with frutos that with bloom's ambition and poyet's desire to make progress, a £1m+ player will almost certainly be a requirement - possibly a striker.

 

[Colossal Squid]

I wish people would stop spending Bloom's money for him, speculating as to how much more of it will be spent. He's just bankrolled our most expensive signing ever as well as having put more money into our club than anyone else in history.

Can we not just be pleased enough with this as it is?

Yes we need some more players if we want to be competitive in the Championship next season but if everyone expects million pound plus players to come in I think we're getting a bit ahead of ourselves. Quality doesn't always have to cost. Crystal Palace just picked up a decent striker on a free for god's sake.

Be happy with what we've got. Tony doesn't owe us ANYTHING more. He's already spunked a huge sum of money on the most important element of next season in our gorgeous state of the art new stadium.

Holding on to our best players and the best manager we've had in living memory will be job enough as it is so to go touting big fat sums on hitherto unnamed players is just being greedy if you ask me.

Let's just see what happens and in the mean time be grateful for what we've got, which right now is more than we've EVER had.

 

[APACHE]

I would be happy to see Gus bring in a older experienced player ,who willshow the younger ones how to close-out games when we're playing poorly.This maybe our most important signing because at the moment this group do not have an older and wiser head to lead them on the pitch. Poyet can only do so much from the touchline and the money could prove well spent for 1 or 2 seasons.