Who is/was our best transfer dealer.

[BensGrandad]

A numbver of managers come in to contention for the title of best wheeler dealer in the transfer market.

Archie McAuley for getting the England Centre Forward - Bobby Smith to sign for us 5 months after playing for England.

Allan Mullery for picking up Mark Lawrenson, Gary Williams and Steve Foster very cheaply.

For me the best was Barry Lloyd who with two exceptions, Farrington and Tiltman, unearthed no end of talent and got us into the playoffs in as hard if not harder circumstances than we are in now.

 

[Basil Fawlty]

I think MA was the best transfer dealer.

 

[London Irish]

"harder circumstances than we are in now"

 

[B.M.F]

Could not agree more with Barry Lloyd. He found us some superb players that performed so well for us.

 

[BensGrandad]

"harder circumstances than we are in now"

YES.

We had a disunited board so much so that it is rumoured that b Lloyd threatened to punch Archer over the Beeding Cement Works idea.

A board that would give NOTHING to aid the team.

A ground that was falling apart.

Dwindling gates.

Supporters 100R% opposed to the board.

We now have a united board, a ground that holds the same as the attendances we were getting at The Goldstone and supporters who back the board 100%

 

[Bromley shrimp]

A numbver of managers come in to contention for the title of best wheeler dealer in the transfer market.

Archie McAuley for getting the England Centre Forward - Bobby Smith to sign for us 5 months after playing for England.

Allan Mullery for picking up Mark Lawrenson, Gary Williams and Steve Foster very cheaply.

For me the best was Barry Lloyd who with two exceptions, Farrington and Tiltman, unearthed no end of talent and got us into the playoffs in as hard if not harder circumstances than we are in now.

Macauley also signed Barry Rees & Mel Hopkins.

Didn't Mullers bring in Brian Horton as well?

Also Peter Taylor Mk 1 set the foundations for the Glory Years - incl. one Peter Ward I seem to remember...

MA would probably get my vote purely on quantity of players who could cut it.

 

[BensGrandad]

The one thing against Mullery was that yes he brought in those players but he had the finances provided by Mike Bamber to do so.

 

[Garry Nelson's Left Foot]

I never rated Barry Lloyd, but he did have a good record in the transfer market...

Garry Nelson
John Keely(?)
Mike Small
John Byrne
sergei Gotzmanov
Clive 'flash' Walker
Robert Codner
Mark Beeney
Mark Gall
Mark Barham
and a whole lot more that I can't remember.

On the downside...
He sold Dean Saunders for 60grand andMark Farrington and Les Briley were two of the worst players in history.

 

[rool]

I thought Cattlin did quite well in his short time with us with the likes of Danny Wilson, Steve Penney, Dean Saunders and possibly a few others I can't remember. Can't remember if we had to pay for any of those three.

 

[BensGrandad]

I He sold Dean Saunders for 60grand .

Wasnt that done to avoid us folding as was done with Beeney to Leeds.

 

[Garry Nelson's Left Foot]

Wasnt that done to avoid us folding as was done with Beeney to Leeds.

I have no idea. If it was then fair enough I guess... but still, 60 grand?!

 

[Safeway]

Jeff Wood. Keith McPherson. Nuff sed.

 

[LANGDON SEAGULL]

I have no idea. If it was then fair enough I guess... but still, 60 grand?!

The club were forced to accept this offer by their bank



At the time Barclays Bank (to whom we had re-mortgaged the Goldstone) were trying to get us to pay our bills with them. In the end we had pissed them about so much that they demanded an immediate payment of £50,000 to settle the most outstanding part of our debts or they would lockus out of the ground. We did not have 50k in cash. When the club told Barclays this, Barclays went ape and demanded /asked BHA if there were any offers on players that could be realised quickly. It so happened that Mark Lawrenson (who was then manager at Oxford) had put in a not very serious 50k bid/enquiry in for Dean Saunders (i understood that this was very much an opening bid) . Howvever when Barclays got to hear that there was an un-realised bid of £50k against one of our players, they told the club to do the deal there and then regardless and send them the money

 

[Bromley shrimp]

Scandalous. I never could work that one out until today. Thanks for the explanation.

 

[Cheeky Monkey]

I never rated Barry Lloyd

Must admit I was young and naiive when Lloyd was in charge and the animosity towards him from sections of the crowd mystified me at the time, especially as we were heading for Wembley. Was it tactics? The fact that he wasn't a big name manager/came from Worthing Town? Poor relationship with the players(Gary Nelson's autobiog bit about being dropped for Wembley sticks in the mind)? The blue suit jacket that was so old it was shiny? The fag smoking? Transfer dealings?

 

[Uncle Buck]

YES.

We had a disunited board so much so that it is rumoured that b Lloyd threatened to punch Archer over the Beeding Cement Works idea.

A board that would give NOTHING to aid the team.

A ground that was falling apart.

Dwindling gates.

Supporters 100R% opposed to the board.

We now have a united board, a ground that holds the same as the attendances we were getting at The Goldstone and supporters who back the board 100%

I would leave it.

Steve did not follow the Albion until football became fashionable and the Guardian started reporting on it...

 

[Pevenseagull]

I would leave it.

Steve did not follow the Albion until football became fashionable and the Guardian started reporting on it...

what he missed the 'Glory Years' 1989-92

 

[Safeway]

I would leave it.

Steve did not follow the Albion until football became fashionable and the Guardian started reporting on it...

Like Yorkie, you mean?

 

[Uncle Buck]

what he missed the 'Glory Years' 1989-92

Well his 'indepth' knowledge seems to centre round the Withdean years.

We must go for a pint soon.

 

[Edward Scissorhands]