Record Transfer Fees - Brighton

Seagull Crow · Jul 22, 2014

Not that this makes the blindest bit of difference, but Ulloa's transfer made me wonder about our record transfer fees for players. Am I correct in thinking the following would be our 'record transfers'? (I'm aware that some of the sums quoted were 'undisclosed' and based on press speculation)

Sales
1. Ulloa (2014) - £8million
2. Bridcutt (2014) - £3.25million
3 Noone (2012) - £1.5million
3. Bennett (2011) - £1.5million
3. Zamora (2003) - £1.5million

Buys
1. Mackail-Smith (2011) - £2.5million
2. Ulloa (2013) - £2million
3. Buckley (2011) - £1million

Brian Fantana · Jul 22, 2014

Add Virgo to the £1.5 million list, too.

Other than that, I'd say you're about right.

Gazwag · Jul 22, 2014

Virgo £1.5million

Tim Over Whelmed · Jul 22, 2014

and Gary Hart (that kit didn't come for free, oops, yes it did!)

Jesus Gul · Jul 22, 2014

Mark Beeney at some point

Kumquat · Jul 22, 2014

Didn't we pay 1 million at least for Hoskins?

Betfair Bozo · Jul 22, 2014

Hoskins was £500,000 wasn't he. Lawro was definitely 900k which was plenty in 1981.

Guinness Boy · Jul 22, 2014

Jesus Gul said:
Mark Beeney at some point

Mustafa said:
Was Lawrenson sold for £900k? If so that's around £3m in today's money, but for some reason record fees don't usually take inflation into account.

Lawrenson was sold for £900k. We also paid £500k for Andy Ritchie from Man U meaning we paid the equivalent of 2.2 million for Ritchie

http://www.thisismoney.co.uk/money/...tion-calculator-value-money-changed-1900.html

Beeney went for 500k but that paid the tax man and saved the club.

forrest · Jul 22, 2014

Jesus Gul said:
Mark Beeney at some point

£350,000 I think with add one to the sum of £500,000 based on games played and international caps. Though I don't think we got that final figure. He had the honour of saving us from the taxman when we sold him and also of saving Maidstone at the time when we brought him.

Betfair Bozo · Jul 22, 2014

Also in sales (of sorts) Grant Hall to Spurs?

Seagull Crow · Jul 22, 2014

Mustafa said:
Was Lawrenson sold for £900k? If so that's around £3m in today's money, but for some reason record fees don't usually take inflation into account.

This is a really good point - which is why included the year of transfer above.

After inflation, Lawrenson's transfer would have been worth nearly £3.5million in today's money (see http://www.thisismoney.co.uk/money/...tion-calculator-value-money-changed-1900.html)

Zamora's transfer would be worth in excess of £2.129million and Virgo's marginally in excess of £2million

That said, footballing 'values' have inflated astronomically in the post-Sky era - so it's not just inflation that needs to be taken into account

TSB · Jul 22, 2014

I would imagine we were awarded £1million+ for Gareth Barry (and Michael Standing).
Eventually.
Though I believe we settled for less to get it 'upfront'

Guinness Boy · Jul 22, 2014

Seagull Crow said:
This is a really good point - which is why included the year of transfer above.

After inflation, Lawrenson's transfer would have been worth nearly £3.5million in today's money (see http://www.thisismoney.co.uk/money/...tion-calculator-value-money-changed-1900.html)

Zamora's transfer would be worth in excess of £2.129million and Virgo's marginally in excess of £2million

That said, footballing 'values' have inflated astronomically in the post-Sky era - so it's not just inflation that needs to be taken into account

A quick study of relative transfer values is quite scary re the Ritchie and Lawrenson transfers. In 1979 Trevor Francis became the first million pound player. We paid 500k for Ritchie in 1980. The current record is c.£86 mill for bale. You could argue we paid the equivalent of £43 million for Andy Ritchie. Not for very long though.

father_and_son · Jul 22, 2014

Wasn't Ulloa 2 million euros, which is something closer to £1.5m?

Acker79 · Jul 22, 2014

Hasn't bozza suggested that the fee for Bridcutt was closer to 5m? Even if that the club leaking a price that was reliant on add-ons, they stayed up so I would expect we got most if not all of them.

Kumquat · Jul 22, 2014

TSB said:
I would imagine we were awarded £1million+ for Gareth Barry (and Michael Standing).
Eventually.
Though I believe we settled for less to get it 'upfront'

We definitely settled for less though not sure how much the original award was. Think it was 1 million.

Eddiespearritt · Jul 22, 2014

The font of all knowledge that is the BBC have conveniently forgotten the Bridcutt previous record transfer in their story - or maybe their researcher is using an old Rothmans Yearbook.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/28363371

Bad Ash · Jul 22, 2014

Think we also got a fair amount of compensation for Michael Standing and Gareth Barry. Found one article that said we'd received £1.1M and the amount could rise to £2.4M (I guess it didn't get anywhere near that).

Gazz15 · Jul 22, 2014

LOL,

Lawro was our GREATEST ever player imho, he would have fetched at least £20 - 30M today if he was in his prime!

Guy Fawkes · Jul 22, 2014

Gazz15 said:
LOL,

Lawro was our GREATEST ever player imho, he would have fetched at least £20 - 30M today if he was in his prime!

But we'd also have had a lot of our fans saying he's worth £3m and i'd drive him there myself for that.

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