Record Signing...

[bocadillo]

Reported variously as between £3m-£3.5m.

Surely the record signing question is something City fans just know? I've always assumed that if you asked a fellow Fox to name our record signing he or she would say, without hesitation, Akinbiyi. It's like asking what our old stadium was called, or what year the club was founded. It's an easy one that nobody should get wrong.

I suspect that most City fans would get the name of our old stadium wrong.

 

[Mattmeister]

I suspect that most City fans would get the name of our old stadium wrong.

Fosse Park?

 

[bocadillo]

No it's not, it's such a tragedy that it has a human beauty attached to it. Like Othello or Hamlet such a tale of suffering and frustration defines what it is to be human. A record signing like Akinbiyi's resonates about you as a reminder of man's fallacies and failings and makes you re-asses your own self and being in a the way a successful record signing like Fernando Torres doesn't.

I never want us to break it!

Food for thought there.

 

[Blue Maniac]

I suspect that most City fans would get the name of our old stadium wrong.

I know what words I used :icon_wink

 

[PEN3]

Yes.

I think - from memory- it was about £10,000.

I think it was £ 12,000

 

[PEN3]

Kevin MacDonald and Gary McAllister were bought for very little and we sold them for a handsome profit.

One of the worst ever sales was swapping Jimmy Melrose for Tommy English

 

[PEN3]

Ian Wilson cost £25,000 (from Elgin City?) and was sold to Everton for around £ 600,000

 

[DesertFox]

I suspect that most City fans would get the name of our old stadium wrong.

The City Stadium, located on Filbert Street but not actually called that. Correct?

 

[bocadillo]

The City Stadium, located on Filbert Street but not actually called that. Correct?

You're not most City fans.
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[DesertFox]

You're not most City fans.
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[Blue Maniac]

They must be insane in the brain.

Bollocks to all of you then :icon_mad:

 

[LCFCmonkey]

Bollocks to all of you then :icon_mad:

Don't worry, I got it.

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Muggs -> DJ Muggs -> Cypress Hill -> Insane in the Membrane.

 

[Blue Maniac]

Don't worry, I got it.

:icon_wink

Muggs -> DJ Muggs -> Cypress Hill -> Insane in the Membrane.

Glad someone did.

 

[bocadillo]

Don't worry, I got it.

I didn't.

You got my ticket?

 

[Blue Maniac]

I didn't.

You got my ticket?

Yes.

 

[bocadillo]

Yes.

Wahey - I'm going football!

 

[slyfox]

What about D.J.Campbell....surely value for money :icon_wink

 

[David Gwilliam]

Value for money, for me, would be Walshie.

Think we paid 100k (would need checking) and got 10 years of committed service. With a couple of trophies thrown in.

Walsh was an excellent defender, a wholehearted servant for the club and a true legend. But he never made you gasp. I mean him no disrespect when I say the £100,000 for Keith Weller was far better value.
Weller was arguably the second best winger in the country - those were the days of George Best. Older fans will remember him showing unbelievable control at top speed on pitches that were dreadful and against fullbacks who got away with sheer thuggery. .

I hope that one day I will see another Leicester player to compare with Steve Walsh. I know I will never see a Leicester player to compare with Keith Weller because a player that good would want Champions League football.

I believe another all-time great Frank Worthington cost about £100,000 Jimmy Bloomfield's other buys were Jon Sammels £100,00, The Birch £100,000. Dennis Rofe £70,000. What a manager. Thank you Jimmy.

 

[MHS]

Surely the undisclosed fee for one Barry Hayles was bargain of the century?

 

[Feriol]

Best Value has to be Billy McKinlay