Len Rum said:Take your blue tinted specs off mate, City smashed the British transfer fee record when we paid £45,000 for Bobby Kennedy from Kilmarnock in 1961.Matty said:prestonibbo_mcfc said:Over inflated the market. You lot are cheeky fuckers. Who paid 30 million for Rio and how many years ago.
When United bought Andy Cole for £7m in 1995 that was a British transfer fee record.
When United bought Juan Sebastian Veron for £28.1m in 2001 that was a British transfer fee record.
When United bought Rio Ferdinand for £29.1m in 2002 that was a British transfer fee record.
City broke their own personal transfer record in 2002 by the way, we bought Jon Macken from Preston North End for the sum of £5m.
But yes, you're quite right, it's City who have inflated the transfer market......
Sorry to burst your bubble Len me old mucker but I think you will find the transfer of Denis Law preceded that..........
After four years at Huddersfield, Manchester City signed him (in 1960) for a transfer fee of £55,000, setting a new British record. Law spent one year there before Torino bought him for £110,000, this time setting a new record fee for a transfer between an English and an Italian club.
So clearly we were destroying football records way back then.