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

[GREASED WEASEL]

Come to that any transfer thresholds

1,000
10,000
250,000
500,000
1,000,000

50 sheets of corigated iron

I've got a feeling Andy Ritchie was one
Was it 500,000?

 

[blockhseagull]

Was Buckley the first over 1m? Or where there some old early 80s ones there?

Pretty sure that’s right.

 

[GREASED WEASEL]

Dean Saunders may have been the first over 50,000

 

[portslade seagull]

Wasn't Mark Lawrenson 150k when he joined

 

[wigman]

Dean Saunders may have been the first over 50,000

Michael Robinson was bought before him for significantly more than 50k.

 

[hans kraay fan club]

Michael Robinson was bought before him for significantly more than 50k.

Ted Maybank was a record signing at £238k. He was likely the first over £200k

 

[Eeyore]

Teddy Maybank's contract cost £238,000 (Nov 77). That may have been the highest before Ritchie.

 

[GREASED WEASEL]

Michael Robinson was bought before him for significantly more than 50k.

Blimey,yeah your right

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

 

[GREASED WEASEL]

Ted Maybank was a record signing at £238k. He was likely the first over £200k

Jesus!

Never realised we were so flushed back then

 

[jamie (not that one)]

I remember when we dropped around the 3 million mark for CMS and thinking it was absolutely mind blowing for us. And it was, come to think of it.

 

[GREASED WEASEL]

Must have paid a few quid for Jimmy Case

 

[Mancgull]

Pretty sure Lawrenson was the first at just over £100k. Think we sold him for c £900k.

 

[Silverhatch]

Pretty sure Lawrenson was the first at just over £100k. Think we sold him for c £900k.

Yep, Lawrenson was £100k and we outbid Liverpool both in transfer fee and salary terms.

 

[Paul Reids Sock]

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

 

[Shuggie]

Thought for a minute it might have been Peter Sayer but, no, Teddy it was. His first teamsheet below v Blackburn, player profile from the Southampton home game at the start of 1978 and the stats page from the last home game that season

 

[Gwylan]

Yep, Lawrenson was £100k and we outbid Liverpool both in transfer fee and salary terms.

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

 

[zeemeeuw]

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

 

[Peter Grummit]

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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[GREASED WEASEL]

Thought for a minute it might have been Peter Sayer but, no, Teddy it was. His first teamsheet below v Blackburn, player profile from the Southampton home game at the start of 1978 and the stats page from the last home game that season


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Only 21 when we bought him,thought he was older

 

[drew]

Must have paid a few quid for Jimmy Case

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