Biggest financial gamble on a player by the club?

[Pevenseagull]

I can't recall how much we paid for Mark Farrington but it was clearly a big gamble when you consider that he had clearly hadn't ever played football previously!!

......or subsequently

...
.for some reason I have £180K in my head



...although that may have been Mark Gall.





Or Bissett and Codner for 300k from Barnet
...I think

I get confused

 

[W.C.]

Jason Peake at £100,000 exactly 20 years ago was a significant sum with our meagre income at the time - and the future looking even bleaker.
One worldie goal at the beginning, and that was it. Despite this, we survived.
(For younger fans, just think 'Ryan Harley' and you will get my drift.)

Was thinking the same. Your 'Ryan Harley' analogy is perfect.

 

[Megazone]

Liam Dickinson for 100k.

 

[NooBHA]

Get a life

The biggest gamble is CH

Every manager and every player has been a gamble for the last 10 years

For the first time Brighton have backed a winner . Enjoy the ride to the PL and get behind him. you didn't know it at the time but Brighton didn't sign up the best Manager in the world but they did sign up a Manger who does know what it takes to get to the PL

 

[W.C.]

Get a life

The biggest gamble is CH

Every manager and every player has been a gamble for the last 10 years

For the first time Brighton have backed a winner . Enjoy the ride to the PL and get behind him. you didn't know it at the time but Brighton didn't sign up the best Manager in the world but they did sign up a Manger who does know what it takes to get to the PL

Get a life? What are you talking about?

It's a good thread.

 

[Megazone]

Get a life? What are you talking about?

It's a good thread.

Get a Life? I agree, what is he talking about?

 

[AZ Gull]

Liam Dickinson for 100k.

That would be 300k.

 

[perseus]

A few transfers that have raised eyebrows:

1) Bobby Smith I (signing on fee unknown)
2) John Napier (£25K record at the time)
3) Ken Beamish (financial begging bowl)
4) Gary Williams (first £75K transfer by a Div 3 club)
5) Mark Lawrenson (first £100K transfer by a Div 3 club) (maybe the first £100K transfer for a 19 yo? )
6. Shane Duffy (£4.46 m still seems a lot to me for a defender.)

 

[n1 gull]

A few transfers that have raised eyebrows:

1) Bobby Smith I (signing on fee unknown)
2) John Napier (£25K record at the time)
3) Ken Beamish (financial begging bowl)
4) Gary Williams (first £75K transfer by a Div 3 club)
5) Mark Lawrenson (first £100K transfer by a Div 3 club) (maybe the first £100K transfer for a 19 yo? )
6. Shane Duffy (£4.46 m still seems a lot to me for a defender.)

Shane Duffy seems like an absolute bargain to me

 

[Jam The Man]

I am of the understanding that the money received from the sale of CKR 3 months earlier, accounted for the lion's share of what we paid to Rochdale for Glenn Murray

 

[turienzo's lovechild]

I am of the understanding that the money received from the sale of CKR 3 months earlier, accounted for the lion's share of what we paid to Rochdale for Glenn Murray

CKR left in 2006, Murray signed in 2008

 

[El Presidente]

Still has to be Glenn for me 300k in 2007, with our finances

Tony Bloom paid for that signing even though DK was still chairman.

 

[El Presidente]

A few transfers that have raised eyebrows:

1) Bobby Smith I (signing on fee unknown)
2) John Napier (£25K record at the time)
3) Ken Beamish (financial begging bowl)
4) Gary Williams (first £75K transfer by a Div 3 club)
5) Mark Lawrenson (first £100K transfer by a Div 3 club) (maybe the first £100K transfer for a 19 yo? )
6. Shane Duffy (£4.46 m still seems a lot to me for a defender.)

Where do you get the £4.46m from?

 

[Jam The Man]

CKR left in 2006, Murray signed in 2008

Yes apologies.. got it a bit wrong (it's early!)
What I meant was the sell on fee from the sale of CKR from Sheffield Utd to Fenerbahce received in the summer transfer window of 2007 (about £200k)

At least, that's what they told me!

 

[Birdie Boy]

Get a life

The biggest gamble is CH

Every manager and every player has been a gamble for the last 10 years

For the first time Brighton have backed a winner . Enjoy the ride to the PL and get behind him. you didn't know it at the time but Brighton didn't sign up the best Manager in the world but they did sign up a Manger who does know what it takes to get to the PL

I am not sure how CH was a gamble when he clearly can do the job after his stints at Newcastle and Norwich, where he should never have been sacked at either club. I was delighted when we got him.

 

[Jam The Man]

Tony Bloom paid for that signing even though DK was still chairman.

...ish.

 

[Exile]

Get a life

The biggest gamble is CH

Every manager and every player has been a gamble for the last 10 years

For the first time Brighton have backed a winner . Enjoy the ride to the PL and get behind him. you didn't know it at the time but Brighton didn't sign up the best Manager in the world but they did sign up a Manger who does know what it takes to get to the PL

Nonsense. After the two moody latinos, and the flaky Finn, Chris Hughton was appointed precisely because he was a known quantity - a safe pair of hands. The absolute opposite of a gamble.

 

[carteater]

CMS

 

[Easy 10]

Get a life

The biggest gamble is CH

Every manager and every player has been a gamble for the last 10 years

For the first time Brighton have backed a winner . Enjoy the ride to the PL and get behind him. you didn't know it at the time but Brighton didn't sign up the best Manager in the world but they did sign up a Manger who does know what it takes to get to the PL

"The biggest financial gamble on a player by the club?"

- Chris Hughton




Right-o.

And we DID know we were signing a manager who knows what it takes to get to the PL. He's done it several times before. Apart from that, good post.

 

[ThePompousPaladin]

...
Enjoy the ride to the PL and get behind him.
...

19 matches left yet!
Deep down i just know we're going to blow it, or at the very least have a nail biter of a finish, we just don't do things easy down here.

And yes, i think you may be right, he probably is the best manager in the world.