With part of the income from selling Vic.
What it does indicate is how inflated domestic players are now that you can't pick up a couple that good for half a million from Europe.
Think he came through as a central midfielder? Best game for us LWB against Watford and most games RWB. Presently the starting RWB! Bit of "Barry Quinn Syndrome" where you play in lots of positions but never nail down your specialist one. I do like him though, versatile players are rare.
I like the loan idea a lot. Sick of developing players for other clubs then having to start again. Look what can happen when our own youngsters get a chance!
Everybody's forgotten that Allen wasn't match fit but coming back from a fairly long injury during the playoffs and actually had a good season by anybody's standard's. Still, some will consider him guilty of war crimes...
One of my heroes, David Smith set up a fair portion of those Speedie goals! Other heroes-Terry "Gibbo" Gibson, Dave "Benno" Bennett, Cyrille and of course Speeeeeeeeeedoooo!