Martyn Hocking Posted August 25, 2012 Report Share Posted August 25, 2012 EP says this morning that Baldock is City's 5th million pound plus signing. Not 100% sure of the other four - I assume three of the others are Maynard, Ade Akinbye and Tony Thorpe, but who else - Soren Anderson? Would be interested to see a list of our top10-20 most expensive signings and how well they performed for us, though I appreciate inflation and 'undisclosed fee' makes that tricky. Anyone help me out? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Redtucks Posted August 25, 2012 Report Share Posted August 25, 2012 EP says this morning that Baldock is City's 5th million pound plus signing. Not 100% sure of the other four - I assume three of the others are Maynard, Ade Akinbye and Tony Thorpe, but who else - Soren Anderson? Would be interested to see a list of our top10-20 most expensive signings and how well they performed for us, though I appreciate inflation and 'undisclosed fee' makes that tricky. Anyone help me out? Lee Trundle Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Red_Mat Posted August 25, 2012 Report Share Posted August 25, 2012 Yeah, Trundle. Anyone know how much Cunningham was? I thought he was up around that mark... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BS15_RED Posted August 25, 2012 Report Share Posted August 25, 2012 Cunningham was undisclosed I thought? I'd be very surprised if we paid £1M for him. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JammyOne Posted August 25, 2012 Report Share Posted August 25, 2012 Cunninhgam was around the 350K mark. We wouldn't have paid much for him, which imo is why it was the best signing this summer for us. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lita For Congo Posted August 25, 2012 Report Share Posted August 25, 2012 Pitman was 900k aswell so i would imagine he would be 6th or 7th highest signing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Admin Ian M Posted August 25, 2012 Admin Report Share Posted August 25, 2012 On the flip side how many £1m+ sales have we had? Akinbiyi £4m+ (after clauses) Cotterill £2m Maynard £1.65m (rising to £2m if West Ham stay up this season) Cole £1.5m Brennan £1.5m Carle £1.2m Lita £1m Murray £1m (although waved a lot of this bringing him back) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mihai Posted August 25, 2012 Report Share Posted August 25, 2012 Now I saw that Andy Cole was in our team before to sign with Newcastle, and we paid for him about 1.35 million Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Night84 Posted August 25, 2012 Report Share Posted August 25, 2012 On the flip side how many £1m+ sales have we had? Akinbiyi £4m+ (after clauses) Cotterill £2m Maynard £1.65m (rising to £2m if West Ham stay up this season) Cole £1.5m Brennan £1.5m Carle £1.2m Lita £1m Murray £1m (although waved a lot of this bringing him back) Nick Carle? Did he go for a million? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Admin Ian M Posted August 25, 2012 Admin Report Share Posted August 25, 2012 Now I saw that Andy Cole was in our team before to sign with Newcastle, and we paid for him about 1.35 million My understanding of the Cole deal is that it was shambolic. We bought him for £500k We sold him for £1.5m All good so far. However, Arsenal when selling him to us had the foresight to include a whopping 33% sell on clause (on any profit) making the profit for Arsenal at this stage £833k & for City £667k. Cole then got sold to Man U for £7m (& Gillespie) so given we got stung by Arsenal for 33% at the time we sold him to Newcastle it was surely time to look at what our cut would be. No, our board forgot/didn't think it was worth putting a clause in! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mihai Posted August 25, 2012 Report Share Posted August 25, 2012 Nick Carle? Did he go for a million? Yeah, 1.35 million as I know. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Admin Ian M Posted August 25, 2012 Admin Report Share Posted August 25, 2012 Nick Carle? Did he go for a million? Yes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GrahamC Posted August 25, 2012 Report Share Posted August 25, 2012 Certainly our 5 million plus signings have been (in order): Maynard, Baldock, Akinbiyi, Thorpe and Trundle. Beyond that we paid £800k for Pitman, £750k for Davies and ahem, Styvar, £600k for Clarkson, beyond that we paid £550k for Carle, £500k for Sproule, Cole and Haynes and over £400k for Sebok, Torpey and Andersen. That's 16, I have probably missed someone out but can't think of any more... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eastonboy Posted August 25, 2012 Report Share Posted August 25, 2012 Tango, Damian Stewart? Both around the £500k mark Graham? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TRL Posted August 25, 2012 Report Share Posted August 25, 2012 Certainly our 5 million plus signings have been (in order): Maynard, Baldock, Akinbiyi, Thorpe and Trundle. Beyond that we paid £800k for Pitman, £750k for Davies and ahem, Styvar, £600k for Clarkson, beyond that we paid £550k for Carle, £500k for Sproule, Cole and Haynes and over £400k for Sebok, Torpey and Andersen. That's 16, I have probably missed someone out but can't think of any more... I thought styvar was around 250k, Pete Johnson alluded to this on a interview... Unless he was covering his back for a woeful bit of scouting. Any idea what we paid for Stewart? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GrahamC Posted August 25, 2012 Report Share Posted August 25, 2012 I thought styvar was around 250k, Pete Johnson alluded to this on a interview... Unless he was covering his back for a woeful bit of scouting. Any idea what we paid for Stewart? The fee banded around at the time for Styvar was between £600k and £750k. Yes, he's in the top 20 as we paid £400k for Stewart, another spectacularly bad piece of business as we effectively got £100k for Bradley Orr as a result... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TRL Posted August 25, 2012 Report Share Posted August 25, 2012 The fee banded around at the time for Styvar was between £600k and £750k. Yes, he's in the top 20 as we paid £400k for Stewart, another spectacularly bad piece of business as we effectively got £100k for Bradley Orr as a result... Ah it was gj who said we paid less http://www.thisisbristol.co.uk/Bristol-City-boss-Johnson-faith-striker-Styvar/story-11265030-detail/story.html Still a lot though. It seems to me. Most of our best bits of business come when signing left backs! We rarely get that wrong. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jordan Tansley Posted August 25, 2012 Report Share Posted August 25, 2012 McIndoe wasn't cheap Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GrahamC Posted August 25, 2012 Report Share Posted August 25, 2012 McIndoe wasn't cheap £350k, one of our better buys for me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Martyn Hocking Posted August 25, 2012 Author Report Share Posted August 25, 2012 Too time-consuming to do this for all transfers, but I used a site that calculates 'real terms value' and applied it to the £275,000 we paid for Tony Fitzpatrick in 1979. That works out at just over £1m in today's money. He certainly didn't offer great value for money as I recall. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sephjnr Posted August 25, 2012 Report Share Posted August 25, 2012 Ade Akinbiyi was the highest purchase before Maynard (£1m-ish), and he's still our largest sale (£4.5m as far as I know) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
22A Posted August 25, 2012 Report Share Posted August 25, 2012 Would be interested to see a list of our top10-20 most expensive signings and how well they performed for us, though I appreciate inflation and 'undisclosed fee' makes that tricky. Anyone help me out? Contrast those with Wedlock - Free, Atyeo - Free. When it comes to buying I think Mark Gavin was good value. Having bought him from Bolton in 86/87, in the Summer of 1990 we sold him to Watford for £100,000 plus Wayne Allison. December 1991, City bought Mark G back for just £65,000. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gakoe Posted August 25, 2012 Report Share Posted August 25, 2012 50 grand for Shaun Taylor was a tidy bit of business. IMO! Oooshh! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eastonboy Posted August 25, 2012 Report Share Posted August 25, 2012 Certainly our 5 million plus signings have been (in order): Maynard, Baldock, Akinbiyi, Thorpe and Trundle. Beyond that we paid £800k for Pitman, £750k for Davies and ahem, Styvar, £600k for Clarkson, beyond that we paid £550k for Carle, £500k for Sproule, Cole and Haynes and over £400k for Sebok, Torpey and Andersen. That's 16, I have probably missed someone out but can't think of any more... Lee Peacock - £600k Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
old_eastender Posted August 25, 2012 Report Share Posted August 25, 2012 Unfortunately almost all our big signings have been financially a disaster: Maynard cost 2.25 sold for 1.65, 600k loss (should have been big profit if sold b4 last season started though) Trundle & Thorpe cost 1m left on frees, so 2m loss Styvar & Peacock cost 600k left on frees, so 1.2m loss Pitman bought for 800k, likely to sell for 400k maybe? Only Akinbiyi made us money, bought for 1.2m sold for 3.5m. Let's hope Baldock can join Akinbiyi in coming good for us! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eco Posted August 25, 2012 Report Share Posted August 25, 2012 Best bit of business ever was TC getting Walshy for 18K. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RegC Posted August 26, 2012 Report Share Posted August 26, 2012 Didn't we pay just £5k for Jamie McCombe from (I think) Lincoln? A spectacularly good signing & amazing VFM. I agree that Walshy for £18k (99 goals, such a shame he never reached the ton) was also a fantastic signing but in terms of actual fee paid surely Boom-Boom must've been the lowest paid out by us for quite some time. Both fantastic servants and not a bad word to be said against either in BS3 I'd warrant. Still basking in the glow of yesterday's result; great performance against the welshies COYR :city: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Red_Mat Posted August 26, 2012 Report Share Posted August 26, 2012 Seems as if there was a pretty good profit made recently on Yannick... Also, I don't see how you can say paying £1m for someone who then leaves for nothing is making a loss. You're not spending that money based on future profits made - you spend it based on their performances for us, and given how well and how many goals Tony Thorpe scored for us, I wouldn't call that a loss. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wayne allisons tongues Posted August 26, 2012 Report Share Posted August 26, 2012 I agree if we paid 1.5mil for baldocl and he keeps us in championship for 3 years that must be worth quite a bit to the club. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Randy Marsh Posted August 26, 2012 Report Share Posted August 26, 2012 My understanding of the Cole deal is that it was shambolic. We bought him for £500k We sold him for £1.5m All good so far. However, Arsenal when selling him to us had the foresight to include a whopping 33% sell on clause (on any profit) making the profit for Arsenal at this stage £833k & for City £667k. Cole then got sold to Man U for £7m (& Gillespie) so given we got stung by Arsenal for 33% at the time we sold him to Newcastle it was surely time to look at what our cut would be. No, our board forgot/didn't think it was worth putting a clause in! What use would, say, 20% of Gillespie be though? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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