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THE HUNDRED GRAND DAYS

ROBERT PATEMAN LOOKS BACK TO A TIME WHEN 100,000 POUNDS WOULD ALLOW YOU TO BUY A TOP PLAYER...

IT’S no exaggeration to say that £100,000 today is more likely to be a weekly wage than a transfer fee, but it was once a lot of money.
Indeed, when Tottenham manager Bill Nicholson brought an unhappy Jimmy Greaves back to England from AC Milan in December 1961, it was a barrier he didn’t want to break, so the fee was set at £99,999.
The first English club to pay out six figures for a player was Manchester United when they brought Denis Law back to England in 1962. ...

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