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Originally Posted by tatty
McClair was around £750,000 iirc.
Robson
Pallister
Dublin
Ince
That'd be my guess for 4 x £1m+ players before Cantona.
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There’s loads. Abort the quiz pal; abort the quiz!
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Originally Posted by Jammy Dodger
Still a bargain. Cost the same as Dion Dublin. What was the british record at the time, around 2.4 million or something with shearer soon to become the most expensive if he hadn’t already. Signed cantona for less than half the price of Gary Pallister.
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Not sure what the record was at the time, but during the 80s and early 90s most of the big transfer involving British teams were inevitably outgoings. English football pre-Sky still well behind financially at the time wasn’t it. British transfer record £3m at a time when the world record was £13m.