Your favourite Boro signing that cost under £500,000.

[TheBlueButterfly]

Does Bryan Robbo count? (dont think we paid anything for him did we?). A massive part of our history.

 

[Davey_C]

willie falconer

 

[Erimus74]

The team which won promotion from the third division

Pears £80k
Parkinson left Everton youth to sign for Boro
Laws £35k
Pallister goal nets & footballs
Slaven £25k
Stepgens £20k
Kerr £50k

 

[davidmills]

How can anyone compare Friend to Bernie Slaven
Bernie was magnificent.
Friend was great but certainly not magnificent.

 

[festa5]

Hasselbaink, Zenden, Mendieta. All a calibre of player we can only dream of now. All "free" (no doubt set us back a fair whack in wages mind).

 

[NZBoro1]

I'd go Gary Pallister, for what he cost and what we got when he left, and what he went on to do, very closely followed by Bernie.

Oddly enough, they were best mates.

 

[jam69]

George camsell, englands most prolific goalscorer of all time , 500 quid

 

[The_Big_Woodowski]

I'd go Gary Pallister, for what he cost and what we got when he left, and what he went on to do, very closely followed by Bernie.

Oddly enough, they were best mates.

Didn’t we buy him back a fair few years later for more or less the same we sold him for

 

[NZBoro1]

Didn’t we buy him back a fair few years later for more or less the same we sold him for

well thats inflation for you

 

[NoloBoro]

Slaven for me. I often wonder why he didn’t leave when we were relegated from the old division 1.

 

[Blf]

Graham Souness. Arguably the finest player we ever signed.

 

[Ex pfc wintergreen]

Slaven for me. I often wonder why he didn’t leave when we were relegated from the old division 1.

Because no one came in for him unbelievably.️

 

[newyddion]

Dimi - Free

Peltier - Free
Ayala - £300k
Hall - Free
Friend - £100k

Leadbitter - Free
Whitehead - Free

Watmore - Free
Haroun - Free
Carayol - £350k

Bolasie - Free

 

[goalscrounger]

Paul Sugrue

 

[jonny_greenings_sock]

Are we allowed frees? If so, Bolo Zenden then Gaizka Mendieta.

Mendieta came 8th in the Ballon D’Or three years before we signed him, lest we forget. It would be like getting Eden Hazard (2018) or Lewandowski (2019) now.

If not, Mustoe and Slaven were unbelievable but fees were different then. In modern money, the value we got from George Friend and Dani Ayala was unbelievable.

 

[Nero]

I don't think players from pre-90's can be included as transfer fees are vastly different. Would a Bernie Slaven of today be so cheap? Definitely not.

There's no way a Graeme Sounness would be brought in for 35k

 

[jonny_greenings_sock]

Actually think the best value for money signing we ever made was Gareth Southgate…. but that’s a different thread