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Who is/was our best transfer dealer.



BensGrandad

New member
Jul 13, 2003
72,015
Haywards Heath
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.
 






"harder circumstances than we are in now"
:lolol:
 


B.M.F

New member
Aug 2, 2003
7,272
wherever the money is
Could not agree more with Barry Lloyd. He found us some superb players that performed so well for us. :bowdown: :bowdown: :bowdown:
 


BensGrandad

New member
Jul 13, 2003
72,015
Haywards Heath
London Irish said:
"harder circumstances than we are in now"
:lolol:

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

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Aug 24, 2003
831
Beckenham, Kent
BensGrandad said:
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.
 




Garry Nelson's Left Foot

Well-known member
Jul 7, 2003
13,710
tokyo
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

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Jul 10, 2003
6,031
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.
 










LANGDON SEAGULL

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Dec 9, 2004
3,661
Langdon Hills
garry nelsons left foot said:
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
 
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Cheeky Monkey

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Jul 17, 2003
24,005
garry nelsons left foot said:
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

Ghost Writer
Jul 7, 2003
28,075
BensGrandad said:
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...
 


Jul 20, 2003
21,276
Uncle Buck said:
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


:ohmy:
 










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