Blueboy73
Well-Known Member
I remember a figure of £900k being quoted for Holden and £300k and 500k for Pointon and Redmond respectively.Redmond and Pointon both went to Oldham in part ex for Holden. Both solid enough players but we spent big money replacing Pointon with Phelan from Wimbledon. IIRC Palace feigned interest in Phelan which pushed his price up. Wimbledon were ground sharing with Palace at the time. Thankfully our transfer strategy is much better now. Always thought Beardsley would have been a good signing for us when he left Livetpool in 1991 but we seemed to spend most summers being linked with Paul Stewart returning.
I didn't realise it was part of the same deal.
Royle had our pants down with that one and, after Barratt and Warhurst the club still didn't learn it's lesson.
Holden went back there 12 months later, I can't remember how much but I think it was around half the fee we paid.
I agree about Beardsley and think we would have gone for him had Kendal still been in charge.
Like you said, we're much better now, back then everyone knew who we were linked with which meant we either ended up overpaying or the players went elsewhere as other interested clubs were tipped off.
Thank goodness we're much smarter these days.