Ford Donlan Lydon Hanley Gregory Platt Offiah Fielden (at least 3 of those were world record fees, iirc) Wigan have never used a chequebook, have they?
Was thinking exactly the same thing, they are no strangers to buying success.
That's how Wigan became the great team of the eighties, by being the only professional club & buying the best when their opponents still had full time jobs. The experiment did lead to full time superleague though .
Ford Donlan Lydon Hanley Gregory Platt Offiah Fielden (at least 3 of those were world record fees, iirc) Wigan have never used a chequebook, have they?
My thoughts exactly, and those players are just a fraction of what Wigan have paid out for over the years.
Just some of the transfer fees I could find, of course there were plenty more.
1985 Ellery Hanley £150,000 1986 Joe Lydon £100,000 1987 Andy Gregory £130,000 1992 Martin Offiah £440,000 1993 Gary Connolly £250,000 1993 Nigel Wright £130,000 1994 Terry O'Connor £95,000 2006 Stuart Fielden £450,000 2009 Martin Gleeson (£100,000 and Richie Mathers I think we got) 2013 John Bateman Undisclosed
With some of those figures you've got to think what the money would be worth now. £440,000 would be around £700,000.
In the 1950's they bought Billy Boston, Eric Ashton, Mick Sullivan.
Just some of the transfer fees I could find, of course there were plenty more.
1985 Ellery Hanley £150,000 1986 Joe Lydon £100,000 1987 Andy Gregory £130,000 1992 Martin Offiah £440,000 1993 Gary Connolly £250,000 1993 Nigel Wright £130,000 1994 Terry O'Connor £95,000 2006 Stuart Fielden £450,000 2009 Martin Gleeson (£100,000 and Richie Mathers I think we got) 2013 John Bateman Undisclosed
With some of those figures you've got to think what the money would be worth now. £440,000 would be around £700,000.
In the 1950's they bought Billy Boston, Eric Ashton, Mick Sullivan.
I'd forgotten that they'd spent a quarter of a million on Connolly.
Inga the winger was a £400,000 cross code deal I believe too??
Wigan spending spree started way before the previous forenames though. I'll go back to say Case Potter Courtney Fairhurst and Later McGinty. The Wigan up rise was from a Wire exodus!
"Remember last time they were here, the Huddersfield Giants, they lost to a Luke Walsh drop goal. He's only scored four drop goals in his St Helens career has Luke Walsh and each and every one of them have been scored by Luke Walsh"
Just some of the transfer fees I could find, of course there were plenty more.
1985 Ellery Hanley £150,000 1986 Joe Lydon £100,000 1987 Andy Gregory £130,000 1992 Martin Offiah £440,000 1993 Gary Connolly £250,000 1993 Nigel Wright £130,000 1994 Terry O'Connor £95,000 2006 Stuart Fielden £450,000 2009 Martin Gleeson (£100,000 and Richie Mathers I think we got) 2013 John Bateman Undisclosed
With some of those figures you've got to think what the money would be worth now. £440,000 would be around £700,000.
In the 1950's they bought Billy Boston, Eric Ashton, Mick Sullivan.
2015/16 Sam Tomkins in excess of £200,000 (according to BBC 18/01/2016)
Sam T Cost Pies nothing. NW Warriors owed Pies around $400,000 aus on installments on him. They just wrote off the debt to have him return early and so avoid a huge battle with Wire for his signature in 2017. Pies no longer have the financial clout since Leneghan took control from DW. He had to be shrewd to be able to play poker against Moran, so Waney and Leneghan groomed ST all throughout his transfer for brokering a early return that helped Leneghan get a upper hand.
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