Our transfer record

From 23 years ago (before jacob brown was born)when will we break it? Funny how we have sold countless players for more than it get told the money will be re invested but we have never broken the massive 1.5million mark.

 

We signed Thomas & Wilks both for £1.2m last year, we've come close with numerous players over the past few years. Barring the odd player most of our £1m plus players have been ****.

 

Brentford get double figures for players and once again we let them go for a pittance.

what is the point in developing these players all these years to sell to first bidder clubs know we are a soft touch now. When a club approaches brentford now they know they have to bid high.

 

Yeah we did sell near on 9 million pounds worth of players plus a million for villa been promoted plus we got revenue from sky and sold the highest number of season tickets in 20 years.
Not a dig but at some point we are going to have to break it if we really want whiteman we will have to.

 

Bet your life if this shower ov **** broke transfer record ,Conway n team would have it on front page of chron with actual price they paid

 

Because Ollie Watkins is a better striker. A lot more goals scored than Brown. 2 years older so more developed, and 2 years more on his contract than Brown.

I’m not saying Watkins is worth what was paid for him - but he’s worth more than for definite. A goal scorer always commands the money.

 

Players who missed out on promotion. V players nearly relegated. Dunt that tell you something. To put Brown anywhere near to those sold by Brentford. You’d have to be off your rocker.

 

Nearest we got to breaking the record was the £1.3 million we paid Derby for Ashley Ward

 

What a bargain

 

Didn’t we pay about 1.5 for Mike Sheron?

 

Just a cool million for that golden nugget I believe

 

And reportedly £10k a week wages. was why we couldn’t get shut after administration. Don’t know if he’s the highest paid player we’ve ever had but imagine not far off? . Over to those that know.

 

The season has not begun and the board bashing has started already.Fortunately most of us live in the real world.

 

I vaguely remember John Hendrie being a guest on a football programme, about 15 years ago. I think it was around the time we were just coming out of the other side of the admin tunnel. He put our financial troubles down to overspending in the Premier League, and mentioned he was on something like £12k a week at the time.

 

He only signed after laughing at our initial offer too. It was Danny Wilson's infectious attitude that got the deal over the line.

 

And he was worth every penny!!

 

I think the loss of Brown & possibly Mowatt / Cauley (I always expected at least 2 of the 3 would leave this window) can only be judged by the quality of players we have brought in & any further additions. We've brought in another experienced CB, which would make playing a back 3 a real option. The main thing would be keeping the majority of the players & not too much chopping & changing, as we are looking good for this season.

 

Transfer record is meaningless. Did we break the record for Hourihane? Hignett? Mawson? Mowatt? Is spending £2m+ a guarantee we'd find a better player than any of those?

 

Iain Hume said in a podcast with Jon Parkin that we paid him absolutely silly money. He didn’t want to leave Leicester so deliberately priced us out expecting us to back off - then we just accepted his half-serious terms. He said it was the best contract of his career.