Most profitable sales (1 Viewer)

[shmmeee]

Not sure how you then factor in free transfers?

You can’t really. It’s like Bargain Hunt all about your negotiating skills each way.

 

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[Deleted member 5849]

As an aside, Babb was a fine example of selling your best player but using the money wisely. Dublin was bought with some of the cash - not sure if we signed anyone else mind you, can't quite remember?

I'm also struggling to think of any Atkinson era signings we got our money back on, let alone made a profit!

 

[Brighton Sky Blue]

Phil Babb

Unless I am mistaken, one of just two players to have played for Coventry and Sporting Lisbon.

 

[Brighton Sky Blue]

As an aside, Babb was a fine example of selling your best player but using the money wisely. Dublin was bought with some of the cash - not sure if we signed anyone else mind you, can't quite remember?

I'm also struggling to think of any Atkinson era signings we got our money back on, let alone made a profit!

A £200k profit was made on Whelan

 

[shmmeee]

When you look down our biggest sales you see some that you think must have been profitable only to see we paid through the absolute nose in the first place.

 

[Brighton Sky Blue]

I suppose the ultimate measure of profit would be to also include the total cost of the player’s contract to us as well as his fee. On that measure Ndlovu, McNulty and McCallum would come out on top I think.

 

[Esoterica]

Unless I am mistaken, one of just two players to have played for Coventry and Sporting Lisbon.

Hadji played for both too. Or might have been Chippo. One played for Sporting Lisbon and the other one Porto.

 

[Legia Sky Blue]

As an aside, Babb was a fine example of selling your best player but using the money wisely. Dublin was bought with some of the cash - not sure if we signed anyone else mind you, can't quite remember?

I'm also struggling to think of any Atkinson era signings we got our money back on, let alone made a profit!

Can't think of any either, despite there being plenty of signings. I remember we could have sold Telfer for a tidy profit to Blackburn soon after signing him, but turned down their offer!

 

[bawtryneal]

Robert Jarni

 

[procdoc]

Did we make a profit on Safri?

 

[procdoc]

David Thompson?

 

[Brighton Sky Blue]

Did we make a profit on Safri?

Sold for £500k, don’t think he signed for as much

 

[torchomatic]

What did we buy/sell Pearce for?

He was part of the deal with Butterworth too, wasn't he? I remember him going to Forest at the same time as Pearce.

What about Ndlovu? I remember he cost us £10K. Must have got a bit qhen we eventually sold him.

 

[fernandopartridge]

As an aside, Babb was a fine example of selling your best player but using the money wisely. Dublin was bought with some of the cash - not sure if we signed anyone else mind you, can't quite remember?

I'm also struggling to think of any Atkinson era signings we got our money back on, let alone made a profit!

Not directly afair, though Atkinson's spending began 5-6 months after he signed

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[Grendel]

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

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We also paid £7 grand a week of his wages while he played for them

 

[shmmeee]

David Thompson?

No lost money on him as well.

 

[Deleted member 5849]

Not directly afair, though Atkinson's spending began 5-6 months after he signed

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Cobi Jones I guess might have been with the Babb cash?

 

[1066]

Terry Gibson, bought from Spurs and sold to Man utd, they "kindly" gave us Alan Brazil and cash..can't remember how.much

 

[harvey098]

Sorry to bring his name up but Hyam

Jutkiewicz maybe?
What did we buy / sell Richard Keogh for?

 

[Grendel]

On Danny Fox we made less than £200k on him

 

[gazza]

Didn’t we sell leon best for a few million?

 

[fernandopartridge]

Cobi Jones I guess might have been with the Babb cash?

Signed before Babb was sold, Babb wasn't sold until the end of August

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[Esoterica]

When’s the thread on the biggest losses coming?

 

[DrPoolittle]

I suppose the ultimate measure of profit would be to also include the total cost of the player’s contract to us as well as his fee. On that measure Ndlovu, McNulty and McCallum would come out on top I think.

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

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City hadnt finished paying for Lee Hughes, not by a long way. We still owed about £4 million, so Hughes essentially left the club and the owed fee was written off

 

[Grendel]

City hadnt finished paying for Lee Hughes, not by a long way. We still owed about £4 million, so Hughes essentially left the club and the owed fee was written off


We were paying a large amount of his wages every week