Most profitable sales (9 Viewers)

[shmmeee]

Obvious Vik and Gus top this, who is next? Keane maybe (though debatable what the deal was), who else have we sold for a significant profit?

 

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[Skybluecol]

Kirkland is up there....£5m plus profit?

 

[shmmeee]

Kirkland is up there....£5m plus profit?

Didn’t he come through the ranks though?

Looking for players we bought and sold sorry should have been clearer in my OP.

 

[OldBedrocker]

We didn’t make anything on Keane did we though it all went to Richardson?

 

[shmmeee]

We didn’t make anything on Keane did we thought it all went to Richardson?

Hence the debatable bit. I didn’t want to detail into a Keane thread. But thanks I guess

 

[Evo1883]

Dann and fox maybe?

 

[Brighton Sky Blue]

In recent years Sam McCallum got us a profit many many times what we paid for him. So probably the most profitable on that metric.

 

[Grendel]

Obvious Vik and Gus top this, who is next? Keane maybe (though debatable what the deal was), who else have we sold for a significant profit?

We sold Ian Wallace for 18 times more than we bought him

 

[shmmeee]

We sold Ian Wallace for 18 times more than we bought him

That’s the sort of thing I’m after. Anyone from since colour was introduced?

 

[shmmeee]

Dann and fox maybe?

Good shout. Probably the most recent ones.

 

[shmmeee]

So basically for the decade we were out of the Championship, the only decent purchase we made was McCallum from a financial POV. Other than that it was the academy with Wilson, Maddison, Bigi and Bayliss bringing home the bacon.

 

[Grendel]

That’s the sort of thing I’m after. Anyone from since colour was introduced?

Although the fee escalation isn’t as dramatic as we paid half a million Phil babb was sold for what then was I think a record for a defender

 

[Grendel]

Good shout. Probably the most recent ones.

We made nothing on fox apparently

 

[shmmeee]

What did we buy/sell Pearce for?

 

[Brighton Sky Blue]

So basically for the decade we were out of the Championship, the only decent purchase we made was McCallum from a financial POV. Other than that it was the academy with Wilson, Maddison, Bigi and Bayliss bringing home the bacon.

A small profit was also made on Chaplin IIRC

 

[shmmeee]

A small profit was also made on Chaplin IIRC

And of course Gary Borrowdale apparently. Did we ever make a profit on JCH?

 

[Grendel]

So basically for the decade we were out of the Championship, the only decent purchase we made was McCallum from a financial POV. Other than that it was the academy with Wilson, Maddison, Bigi and Bayliss bringing home the bacon.

Well mcnulty was a free transfer so we made on him

 

[kg82]

So basically for the decade we were out of the Championship, the only decent purchase we made was McCallum from a financial POV. Other than that it was the academy with Wilson, Maddison, Bigi and Bayliss bringing home the bacon.

How much did we buy and sell McNulty for?

 

[Brighton Sky Blue]

And of course Gary Borrowdale apparently. Did we ever make a profit on JCH?

A very big loss actually I think given that he went for nothing

 

[shmmeee]

What about the 90s lot? Dublin I think we doubled our money appropriately enough. Whelan? Hucks? Ndlovu?

 

[shmmeee]

McNulty is a great shout. Forgot about him.

 

[Grendel]

What did we buy/sell Pearce for?

He wasn’t the main transfer - he was thrown in with Ian Butterworth oddly

 

[no_loyalty]

George Boateng only cost us £250k, we sold him for £4.5M.

 

[shmmeee]

Transfermarkt recons we made money on Hughes and Hartson was a free transfer. That doesn’t sound right.

Peter Ndlovu almost 200 x increase in value. What a signing.

 

[Gint11]

We bought Boateng for £200K and sold him to Villa for 4.5M roughly

 

[shmmeee]

Would be interesting (to me) to add up net transfer spend vs academy cost over the years vs fees brought in. On a pure numbers basis I wouldn’t be surprised if it was quite close. Only takes a few absolute duds to wipes years worth of academy costs off.

 

[Sky Blue Harry H]

I'll throw in Robert Jarni.

 

[Silsden]

John Hartson- free transfer then went for decent money to Celtic didn’t he?

 

[BackRoomRummermill]

We sold Ian Wallace for 18 times more than we bought him

That’s the best model for working this out as it is most relevant

 

[Brighton Sky Blue]

That’s the best model for working this out as it is most relevant

Not sure how you then factor in free transfers?

 

[fernandopartridge]

What about the 90s lot? Dublin I think we doubled our money appropriately enough. Whelan? Hucks? Ndlovu?

Dublin we nearly trebled our money on £1.9m sold for £5.75m

Huckerby was about £800k sold for £3.5m I think



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[fernandopartridge]

Transfermarkt recons we made money on Hughes and Hartson was a free transfer. That doesn’t sound right.

Peter Ndlovu almost 200 x increase in value. What a signing.

Hughes was sold for less than the £5m we paid, sure it was about £2.5m

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Phil Babb

 

[Deleted member 5849]

Hughes was sold for less than the £5m we paid, sure it was about £2.5m

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It was - basically they took him for how much we still owed them on the deal as we couldn't afford to pay it.

 

[shmmeee]

It was - basically they took him for how much we still owed them on the deal as we couldn't afford to pay it.

That’s what I thought.