Weird Football Transfers
Look at these weird football transfers, who said Football is all about money?
Tony Cascarino - "some training equipment" (Crokenhill to Gillingham, 1982)
The fable that the Gills signed the Irishman for a pile of corrugated iron sadly turns out to be untrue - according to Cascarino, at least. The player himself insists the fee was actually "some training equipment". That's better, Tony. Not much better, but better.
Kenneth Kristensen - his weight in fresh shrimp (Vindbjart to Floey, 2002)
Premier League bung enquiries have led to little, but Lord Stevens should take note of this - there's definitely something fishy about this transfer. Striker Kenneth Kristensen made the switch between Norwegian third division rivals for a crate of crustaceans. The 23-year-old's weight, incidentally, was measured in a pre-match boxing-style weigh-in and determined to be 75kg.
Zat Knight - 30 tracksuits (Rushall Olympic to Fulham, 1999)
The lanky defender - twice capped by England - made the move from non-league football to glamorous Fulham for the princely sum of 30 tracksuits. Assuming the tracksuits came from Fulham chairman Mohamed Al-Fayed's shop Harrods, that could be a British transfer record.
Ernie Blenkinsop - £200 and 80 pints of ale (Cudworth to Hull City, 1921)
Blenkinsop, considered one of the best left-backs the country has ever seen, went on to become England captain and a Sheffield Wednesday legend. The Cudworth directors went on to have a very large hangover.
Lutel James - £200 and a bag of footballs (Hyde United to Bury, 1998)
Some 77 years after Blenkinsop was worth £200 and 80 pints of ale, striker James was worth £200 and a bag of footballs. Taking inflation into account, that makes Blenkinsop roughly 4,000,000 times better than James. Never mind, Lutel.
Marius Cioara - 15kg of pork sausages (UT Arad to Regal Hornia, 2006)
We've all heard of players feeling the pressure of big transfer fees, but it seems the thought of 15kg of sausages hanging over his head was too much for Romanian Cioara. The following day he announced his retirement from football - citing excessive sausage-related taunts - saying he was going to Spain to work on a farm. Presumably not a pig farm. Regal Hornia, understandably, demanded their sausages back. All in all, a dog's dinner of a transfer.
Ian Wright - a set of weights (Greenwich Borough to Crystal Palace, 1985)
It's amazing what non-league clubs will accept in lieu of actual money. Ian Wright proved to be worth more than his weight in weights, and went on to become a legend at both Palace and later Arsenal.
John Barnes - playing kit (Sudbury Court to Watford, 1981)
Another player to be sold for playing kit was John Barnes, who moved into league football in 1981. His transfer to Liverpool five years later was worth £900,000. Who knows how much he was worth after his rap on England's legendary World Cup 1990 anthem World In Motion? Less.
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10 comments:
LOL.
What's amazing is there are some good players on there.
Especially Ian Wright. A set of weights?
LL exactly that Ian Wright thing. lol the finance director of that team could not even put a price on its assets?
I am pretty sure most of these Football teams are extinct now. Its still baffling though, like Zat Knight. He plays Premiership football & was bought for 30 tracksuits?
I didn't realize that lower league clubs were that desperate to accpet shoddy fees like weights and pints.
You are also right about how football is all about money. This whole Tevez saga and the amounts of English clubs being taken over by foreign fat cats who could'nt tell a free kick from a throw in has confirmed my lack of intrest in premiership football. These chairman charge absorbative ticket prices and have the potential to turn alot of football clubs into financial crisis.
Take Newcastle for example. Our new chairman has only given Sam Alladyce around £2 mill to spend and he thinks that will bring in people like Lampard and Terry. This guy is an idiot and with him at the helm I sence that within a few seasons we are going to be the next Leeds.
The chairman before that was a dickhead as well. Fat Freddy Sheppard took so many bungs for signing guys like Amdy Faye, Boumsong and Luque it's unbelievable. The transfers make no sence and I hope he gets a hefty fine for it.
Until the Premiership decides to take action and monitor just who is buying football clubs and enforces salary caps and fixed transfer fees i'm going to watch Darlington and Celtic. The worst thing about it is that it's like Raw. It sucks week after week but im going keep watching it, like newcastle matches.
I didn't realize that lower league clubs were that desperate to accpet shoddy fees like weights and pints.
You are also right about how football is all about money. This whole Tevez saga and the amounts of English clubs being taken over by foreign fat cats who could'nt tell a free kick from a throw in has confirmed my lack of intrest in premiership football. These chairman charge absorbative ticket prices and have the potential to turn alot of football clubs into financial crisis.
Take Newcastle for example. Our new chairman has only given Sam Alladyce around £2 mill to spend and he thinks that will bring in people like Lampard and Terry. This guy is an idiot and with him at the helm I sence that within a few seasons we are going to be the next Leeds.
The chairman before that was a dickhead as well. Fat Freddy Sheppard took so many bungs for signing guys like Amdy Faye, Boumsong and Luque it's unbelievable. The transfers make no sence and I hope he gets a hefty fine for it.
Until the Premiership decides to take action and monitor just who is buying football clubs and enforces salary caps and fixed transfer fees i'm going to watch Darlington and Celtic. The worst thing about it is that it's like Raw. It sucks week after week but im going keep watching it, like newcastle matches.
lol Big TL the lower league clubs must be in some poor financial positions.
I have the exact same view, all the foreign takeovers have ruined the game as the new chairmen just want to make profit. They have no care on winning the league, with the only exception being Ambramovich. The rest of them know that Football teams can be highly profitable without winning anything. So they cut the transfer fee & increase the ticket prices. They feed off the fas as they know we will never stop watching. As you said just like Wrestling, we keep watching as we like it so much.
Also the last 3 Premiership seasons have been pretty crap as Moaninho, just defends with his multi millionaire team.
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