Northern Monkey Posted April 4, 2007 Share Posted April 4, 2007 I can think of only three -- Hamann, Jenas and Woodgate -- but I've got a feeling there may be one more... we made a hell of a profit out of players like Gazza, Beardsley and Waddle. Shame we don't make managers sell players like that anymore eh eh mackems.gif Les Ferdinand. I miss him. He was one of my favourites too. Seemed a genuinely nice bloke as well as a top centre forward. One of the few times I've given a toss about a player from another team getting crocked was him, straight after he left us. What a player he was. People shite on about Ameobi being a good enough striker, and Dyer contributing to the team, but there was a fella who WAS good enough, and contributed massively, and was a genuine asset to the team. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest JonnyRogers Posted April 4, 2007 Share Posted April 4, 2007 Bernard? free from France, sold him for £600,000 to Southampton Ruel Fox - £2.5m from Norwich - £4m to Spurs (just out of the ten years) Darren Ambrose maybe? At the end of the day, if clubs keep thinking Newcastle will pay over the odds for players, then they'll keep charging us them, and Shepherd will just keep paying them. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
OzzieMandias Posted April 4, 2007 Share Posted April 4, 2007 I can think of only three -- Hamann, Jenas and Woodgate -- but I've got a feeling there may be one more... we made a hell of a profit out of players like Gazza, Beardsley and Waddle. Shame we don't make managers sell players like that anymore eh eh mackems.gif Les Ferdinand. I miss him. He was one of my favourites too. Seemed a genuinely nice bloke as well as a top centre forward. One of the few times I've given a toss about a player from another team getting crocked was him, straight after he left us. What a player he was. People shite on about Ameobi being a good enough striker, and Dyer contributing to the team, but there was a fella who WAS good enough, and contributed massively, and was a genuine asset to the team. I remember watching an interview with him, sometime after he'd gone. He was asked about it and seemed saddened it had happened. He then said something like "But you have to learn that in this business you're just a commodity." It made me think about the fact that this was the other side of the coin from the issue of some players not caring about clubs much beyond the size of their wage packets. Not that anyone could have ever levelled that complaint against Sir Les. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
OzzieMandias Posted April 4, 2007 Share Posted April 4, 2007 Bernard? free from France, sold him for £600,000 to Southampton Ruel Fox - £2.5m from Norwich - £4m to Spurs (just out of the ten years) Darren Ambrose maybe? At the end of the day, if clubs keep thinking Newcastle will pay over the odds for players, then they'll keep charging us them, and Shepherd will just keep paying them. Didn't we have to pay £500,000 for Bernard? Not as a transfer fee. It was some kind of compensation. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Northern Monkey Posted April 4, 2007 Share Posted April 4, 2007 Bernard? free from France, sold him for £600,000 to Southampton Ruel Fox - £2.5m from Norwich - £4m to Spurs (just out of the ten years) Darren Ambrose maybe? At the end of the day, if clubs keep thinking Newcastle will pay over the odds for players, then they'll keep charging us them, and Shepherd will just keep paying them. Didn't we have to pay £500,000 for Bernard? Not as a transfer fee. It was some kind of compensation. I thought that was The Zog? Maybe i'm mixing them up, they all look alike to me. The French, i mean. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Northern Monkey Posted April 4, 2007 Share Posted April 4, 2007 I can think of only three -- Hamann, Jenas and Woodgate -- but I've got a feeling there may be one more... we made a hell of a profit out of players like Gazza, Beardsley and Waddle. Shame we don't make managers sell players like that anymore eh eh mackems.gif Les Ferdinand. I miss him. He was one of my favourites too. Seemed a genuinely nice bloke as well as a top centre forward. One of the few times I've given a toss about a player from another team getting crocked was him, straight after he left us. What a player he was. People shite on about Ameobi being a good enough striker, and Dyer contributing to the team, but there was a fella who WAS good enough, and contributed massively, and was a genuine asset to the team. I remember watching an interview with him, sometime after he'd gone. He was asked about it and seemed saddened it had happened. He then said something like "But you have to learn that in this business you're just a commodity." It made me think about the fact that this was the other side of the coin from the issue of some players not caring about clubs much beyond the size of their wage packets. Not that anyone could have ever levelled that complaint against Sir Les. Not if they'd ever watched a game where he played for us, no. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
OzzieMandias Posted April 4, 2007 Share Posted April 4, 2007 I could be getting them mixed up too. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest JonnyRogers Posted April 4, 2007 Share Posted April 4, 2007 Didn't we have to pay £500,000 for Bernard? Not as a transfer fee. It was some kind of compensation. Aye yes we did actually, still maybe a profit there although not entirely sure on how much we sold him for. I suppose that at least it shows we aren't a selling club though, but looking through a list of players it shows we are just very poor on signing players, especially from abroad. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Northern Monkey Posted April 4, 2007 Share Posted April 4, 2007 Someone should do a list of all the transfers in and out since we got into the Premiership, and do the addies up, and that, and then we'll see. Who has the time to do that? Is HTT still on the scrounge not working? he'll have the time. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest smoggeordie Posted April 4, 2007 Share Posted April 4, 2007 Shearer - Paid £15,000,000 and roughly £5,000,000 a year in wages. So he cost us £65,000,000 I heard he earned the club over £100,000,000 in his ten years in shirt sales, image rights, goals that helped us progress etc Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
OzzieMandias Posted April 4, 2007 Share Posted April 4, 2007 Shearer - Paid £15,000,000 and roughly £5,000,000 a year in wages. So he cost us £65,000,000 I heard he earned the club over £100,000,000 in his ten years in shirt sales, image rights, goals that helped us progress etc Where did you hear that, then? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Miler Posted April 4, 2007 Share Posted April 4, 2007 Amdy Faye I believe was another Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest smoggeordie Posted April 4, 2007 Share Posted April 4, 2007 Shearer - Paid £15,000,000 and roughly £5,000,000 a year in wages. So he cost us £65,000,000 I heard he earned the club over £100,000,000 in his ten years in shirt sales, image rights, goals that helped us progress etc Where did you hear that, then? Can't remember, but it can't be far off Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Invicta_Toon Posted April 4, 2007 Share Posted April 4, 2007 Darren Huckerby? Ruel Fox? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
OzzieMandias Posted April 4, 2007 Share Posted April 4, 2007 Shearer - Paid £15,000,000 and roughly £5,000,000 a year in wages. So he cost us £65,000,000 I heard he earned the club over £100,000,000 in his ten years in shirt sales, image rights, goals that helped us progress etc Where did you hear that, then? Can't remember, but it can't be far off Can't it? A hundred million quid? I'd love to see the calculation. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
OzzieMandias Posted April 4, 2007 Share Posted April 4, 2007 Darren Huckerby? Ruel Fox? Both more than ten years ago, but someone posted upthread that we made a profit on Ruel Fox, and we seem to have bought Huckerby for £450,000 and sold him for a million. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Invicta_Toon Posted April 4, 2007 Share Posted April 4, 2007 why are we looking at only ten years then? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
OzzieMandias Posted April 4, 2007 Share Posted April 4, 2007 why are we looking at only ten years then? Why not? Where would you like to set the bar? Since 1892? I suppose I was thinking post-Keegan, Shepherd in charge years. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave Posted April 4, 2007 Share Posted April 4, 2007 why are we looking at only ten years then? Why not? If it exists, Vic will oppose it. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Incognito Posted April 4, 2007 Share Posted April 4, 2007 Kevin Scott? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
OzzieMandias Posted April 4, 2007 Share Posted April 4, 2007 I believe there was some guy in 1907 who we bought for thirty bob and sold for five guineas... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Invicta_Toon Posted April 4, 2007 Share Posted April 4, 2007 I believe there was some guy in 1907 who we bought for thirty bob and sold for five guineas... Martins but look, we've all apologised for the slave trade, let's move on... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mowen Posted April 4, 2007 Share Posted April 4, 2007 Pretty sure we made a loss on Faye. Think we bought him for £2.5m and sold him for £2m. Could easily be wrong, but that's what the brain's giving me at the moment. Also, didn't we get half a mill for Rob Lee from Derby or thereabouts? Could that have snuck into profit? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Northern Monkey Posted April 5, 2007 Share Posted April 5, 2007 Pretty sure we made a loss on Faye. Think we bought him for £2.5m and sold him for £2m. Could easily be wrong, but that's what the brain's giving me at the moment. Also, didn't we get half a mill for Rob Lee from Derby or thereabouts? Could that have snuck into profit? I think you're right about Faye. I think we sold him for about 2million times his actual worth, but i'm sure we paid more than that for him. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
OzzieMandias Posted April 5, 2007 Share Posted April 5, 2007 We bought Faye for £2 million and sold him for £2 million. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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