[Albion] Who Was Brighton's First £100,000 Player?

[GREASED WEASEL]

1st over £1000 was £3,250 for Eric Lancelotte from Charlton Athletic Feb 1948

1st over £10000 was £13,000 for Bill Curry From Newcastle United July 1959

Bill Curry was our top scorer season 59-60 with 26 goals

Died young at 54

 

[GREASED WEASEL]

Who was the first player we signed where the deal included tracksuits?

JCFG?

 

[Peter Grummit]

Was part of the Lawrenson deal. Stand to be corrected but we got JC plus £900k which valued Lawrenson at over £1m

Not true. Lawrenson cost £900,000 and we spent £350,000 of that on Jimmy Case.

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[GREASED WEASEL]

1st over £1000 was £3,250 for Eric Lancelotte from Charlton Athletic Feb 1948

1st over £10000 was £13,000 for Bill Curry From Newcastle United July 1959

Eric Lancelotte was actually born in India,maybe a BHA record in there somewhere
Although not uncommon back then I'd imagine

Lived to the ripe old age of 90

Two very good shouts there

 

[Peter Grummit]

Andy Ritchie was our first £500,000 signing from Man U, shortly after we'd sold Peter Ward to Forest for £400,000.

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[spence]

I remember us wasting over 100k on a Rochdale player. Don't think he settled down here.

 

[Gwylan]

According to Tim Carder & Roger Harris's marvellous Albion A-Z: A Who's Who of Brighton & Hove Albion FC, Mark Lawrenson was indeed our first six figure signing for the oddly precise sum of £111,111.

My memory must have twigged that Lawro wasn't exactly £100k and I went the other way. I was reading somewhere recently that a fee was deliberately under £100k or £1m and got mixed up with Lawro.

 

[Peter Grummit]

I remember us wasting over 100k on a Rochdale player. Don't think he settled down here.

Jason Peake, although the fee only reached £95,000 as he didn't play enough games to trigger the final £25,000.

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[Bakero]

Jason Peake, although the fee only reached £95,000 as he didn't play enough games to trigger the final £25,000.

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Pretty sure his name was Glenn something.

 

[Diablo]

Only 21 when we bought him,thought he was older

That`s because you were 42 years younger and 21 year olds seemed a lot older to you then, than they do today !!

 

[GREASED WEASEL]

We got someone for a can of coke once,didn't we

Double barrelled name that escapes me

 

[Giraffe]

My memory must have twigged that Lawro wasn't exactly £100k and I went the other way. I was reading somewhere recently that a fee was deliberately under £100k or £1m and got mixed up with Lawro.

I think that might be Trevor Francis being the first £1m player but Clough said he made it £999,000 or something similar so that he wasn't but everyone said he was?

 

[The Wookiee]

I remember us wasting over 100k on a Rochdale player. Don't think he settled down here.

Jason Peake

 

[One Teddy Maybank]

Wasn't Mark Lawrenson 150k when he joined

Thought he was £100k


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[Harry Wilson's tackle]

Blimey,yeah your right

We paid a few quid for players back in the old div one

The put them on six year contracts. Otherwise they'd not sing.

Because we were a gauche unfashionable club that everyone knew would never amount to anything.

Times have changed.

 

[Mancgull]

Jason Peake, although the fee only reached £95,000 as he didn't play enough games to trigger the final £25,000.

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I remember him. Played for Rochdale when we lost there 3-0 in late 1996. We made him look him Messi that day. Shit when he played for us though.

 

[The Wookiee]

Didn’t we pay 300k for Murray from Rochdale too ?

That must have been the biggest fee we had paid for some time

 

[Gwylan]

I think that might be Trevor Francis being the first £1m player but Clough said he made it £999,000 or something similar so that he wasn't but everyone said he was?

Yeah, that's it, I was reading about him recently. I mixed up the two stories

 

[Weststander]

According to Tim Carder & Roger Harris's marvellous Albion A-Z: A Who's Who of Brighton & Hove Albion FC, Mark Lawrenson was indeed our first six figure signing for the oddly precise sum of £111,111.

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Signed on the same day with Gary Williams from Preston, for an additional £45,000.

 

[thedonkeycentrehalf]

My memory may be playing tricks here but I thought he was deliberately bought for £99,000 so he didn't have the pressure of being a £100k player. But that's only a vague memory

I thought it was that we sold him for just under £1m so he wasn't a million pound defender.