The Albion's WORST ever player sale

[El Presidente]

All clubs have sold players who went on to be legends elsewhere. At the Albion we are no different, Dean Saunders for £60,000 to Oxford, who sold him a year later for a million, Eric Young for £100,000 and he too went for a mill a couple of years later etc.

My nomination is Ian Muir. Younger NSC'ers may never have heard of him. He joined from Birmingham on a free transfer at the start of the 1984/5 season. He was strong, quick, and scored for fun in the reserves, but for some reason Chris Cattlin never gave him a run in the first team, instead sticking with the Donkey that was Mick Ferguson. Anyone who watched the reserves that season was left scratching their heads as to why Muir was continually omitted.

At the end of that season Frank Worthington left the club to become manager of Tranmere, and his first signing was ........Ian Muir from the Albion.

He scored 180 goals in 8 seasons and is still Tranmere's all time record scorer.

 

[algie]

Gary Nelson went for peanuts

 

[turienzo's lovechild]

turienzo

 

[bhaexpress]

Saunders was the worst without doubt. Were we mugged over Zamora ? Steve Foster didn't get us that much either, he did pretty well atr Oxford and Luton as did Brian Horton. Frankly not many players have done that well since they left here, Peter Ward stands out there.

 

[dougdeep]

With the obvious exception of Lawrenson, very few went on to better things.

 

[Happy Seagull]

Wasn't an Albion player, but what about turning down Ian Wright. But then again we'd only have sold him for a can of baked beans

 

[Safeway]

Wasn't an Albion player, but what about turning down Ian Wright.

And Roy Keane.

 

[Del Boy]

Albert Jarrett

 

[jonny.rainbow]

We let Lee Steele go on a free.

 

[BRIGHT ON Q]

Saunders is always the one that hurts most i think.

 

[Mr Burns]

Saunders is always the one that hurts most i think.

You've got Barclays Bank to thank for that.... wankers.

 

[Easy 10]

What did we get for John Byrne ?
I was GUTTED when he went to Sunderland.

 

[Rookie]

John Keeley superb at the time we let him go. Garry Nelson. And beginning the flaming Leon Knight, we were in a dogfight and let a goal threat go without any replacement not exactly a great bit of business in my book. Still not been replaced either

 

[Deleted User X18H]

Jimmy Case went for about 40 grand toSouthampton as he was o his last legs stayed with them for about 4 years !!!!!!!

 

[Gully]

If you want a laugh, ask Swansea fans about Dean Saunders, they let us have him for nothing, so at least we made 60k on the deal.

 

[pishhead]

Lee johnson another one, when I saw him he looked decent.

 

[withdeanwombat]

We let Lee Steele go on a free.

Yup.Fleeced them on that one!

 

[BRIGHT ON Q]

What did we get for John Byrne ?
I was GUTTED when he went to Sunderland.

A close second to Saunders.I too was numb when Byrne went.I think it was for about 225,000 and then he got them to the cup final single handed to rub salt right in there.

 

[empire]

100 grand wasnt it

 

[Barrel of Fun]

Gary Elphick. Three games and three red cards. He would have been a perfect weapon to annihilate Leon Knight. For just £1000