Talk:British football transfer record

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A few others I've found trawling through old Rothmans, but I'm not certain about:

September 1979	Steve Daley	Wolverhampton Wanderers	Manchester City	£1.15m	rising to £1.44m?
September 1979	Andy Gray	Aston Villa	Wolverhampton Wanderers	£1.175m	before or after Daley?
June 1980	Clive Allen	Queens Park Rangers	Arsenal	£1.25m

Also, wasn't Trevor Francis's transfer just under £1m (Rothmans says £975,000, I've also heard £999,999) in an attempt to not give him the pressure of being the first million pound player? sjorford (talk) 12:54, 7 January 2006 (UTC)

It seems that Gray was signed three days after Daley was sold - [1]. The fees involved for both were in the £1.4m region, from what that page (and others) note.

As for Allen, his fee at the time was not a record, as both Daley and Gray had gone for more. My Arsenal books record a fee of £1.2m from his move from QPR, though they don't disclose the fee Arsenal took when they sold him to Crystal Palace three weeks later. I've added in Gray into the table but left Allen out.

Also, I've added some more records from an old (1995) edition of the Guinnes Book of Records, and some from [2], but I'm not totally sure of that page's veracity. Qwghlm 15:47, 8 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Comment by 82.35.12.25 moved here from article

David Mills was transferred from Middlesbrough to West Bromwich Albion, not the other way round.

Indeed he was. I've changed it accordingly Oldelpaso 07:35, 13 May 2006 (UTC)