They were much cheaper than that per Flown from the Nest

"Whilst Norwich fans would liked to seen Huckerby or Crouch signed permanently, Nigel Worthington sprung a surprise by announcing the capture of Peterborough's pacy leading goalscorer Leon McKenzie for an undisclosed fee, believed to be initially worth ?325,000."

"Swedish international striker Mathias Svensson joined the Canaries from Charlton on December 19th 2003. He signed a two and a half year contract and is alleged to have cost ?50,000"

Posted By: Old Git on May 23rd 2006 at 11:30:16

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Really, really, really, really, really, really, really want Dowie to take over at Charlton (Other Football) - Arizona Bay, May 23, 10:49:44
- why , does Tony Hadley want the job? (n/m) (Other Football) - Jumbo1, May 23, 10:52:59
  - Doubt it: he's already got a job. (Other Football) - Arizona Bay, May 23, 10:55:06
    - I thought you meant the singer! (n/m) (Other Football) - Jumbo1, May 23, 10:56:38
- any reason to think they're considering him? (n/m) (Other Football) - Tricky Hawes, May 23, 10:51:55
  - None that I've heard, no. (Other Football) - Arizona Bay, May 23, 10:53:26
    - actually the belfast telegraph seem to think it's rather likely (Other Football) - Tricky Hawes, May 23, 10:55:43
      - Its because (Other Football) - DiscoDaleGordon, May 23, 10:58:06
        
        they spent more than we did when we both got promoted (Other Football) - Tricky Hawes, May 23, 11:05:41
        
        we paid over ?1m for Leon & Matty didn't we (between them, not each) (n/m) (Other Football) - mr carra, May 23, 11:19:18
        
        ?300 on Svensson, IIRC. (Other Football) - Arizona Bay, May 23, 11:21:08
        
        They were much cheaper than that per Flown from the Nest (Other Football) - Old Git, May 23, 11:30:16
        
        I'm pretty confident that Svensson was only ?50k (Other Football) - Arizona Bay, May 23, 11:33:09
        
        Correct ! (n/m) (Other Football) - oh arr, May 23, 12:48:47
        
        Anyway, bottom line from all this is that (Other Football) - Tricky Hawes, May 23, 11:37:14
        
        Yes, you're probably right there, forgot that (Other Football) - Old Git, May 23, 11:35:55
        
        and a promise to match his prem wages if we went up no doubt (n/m) (Other Football) - pants, May 23, 11:34:06
        
        and that's how I remember it, too (Other Football) - Tricky Hawes, May 23, 11:32:25
        
        Over ?700k on Leon (Other Football) - inutero, May 23, 11:37:22
        
        ?625 after clauses but at least one of those add ons wasn't paid (n/m) (Other Football) - oh arr, May 23, 12:50:06
        
        one clause went down on the last game of the season because leon needed (Other Football) - pants, May 23, 11:42:39
        
        yeh that was harsh (n/m) (Other Football) - Brandonio, May 23, 11:44:07
        
        yeah I thought so too, they were in trouble, we were about to enter a league of 30 mill (Other Football) - pants, May 23, 11:51:07
        
        instead we spunked it on Gary Doherty (n/m) (Other Football) - Brandonio, May 23, 12:25:19
        
        Yeah is suppose so (Other Football) - DiscoDaleGordon, May 23, 11:11:45
        
        ?2m on Ivan Kaviedes, too. (Other Football) - Ottosson Foxtrot, May 23, 11:11:41
        
        That was more of a rumour, I believe. (Other Football) - InTheAbsenceOfAHorse, May 23, 11:25:46
        
        Soccerbase: (Other Football) - Ottosson Foxtrot, May 23, 11:33:29
        
        Have seen that on there. (Other Football) - InTheAbsenceOfAHorse, May 23, 11:38:06
        
        Found what I was after...... (Other Football) - InTheAbsenceOfAHorse, May 23, 11:41:23
        
        Oh, right. (Other Football) - Ottosson Foxtrot, May 23, 11:42:41
- really really really really really (Other Football) - pants, May 23, 10:50:22

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