Southend's best transfer dealings

[sufcjoe]

Following on from the thread about the worst bits of business in the transfer market how about the best deals.

Ill kick off Freddy Eastwood bit obvious this, short term loan debut goal within 7.7 seconds went on to score a hat trick we then paid peanuts for him he scored plenty of goals and we got over a million for him

 

[Beefy]

Stan Collymore.

 

[FarmdogSUFC]

Barry Corr :winking:

 

[MK Shrimper]

Mark Gower.

 

[palexander]

Brett Angell at £100k turned out to be a superb signing.

 

[Gremlin]

Stan Collymore.

Gets my vote, just ahead of Chris Powell.

 

[canveyshrimper]

A short Scotsman signed from Northampton Town for about 4k - Billy Best.

In terms of impact & profit Stan Collymore.

 

[Angell Delight]

Ricky Otto should be on the list.

 

[Blue_Shrimper1959]

Shaun Goater, especially as it was a free

 

[Clinton Baptiste]

Maher
Gower
Spinner
Flavs
Sodje

In terms of money made, did ok from Bailey and Hoops.

 

[yogi bear up the cagire]

Bill Garner, bought from Bedford Town in November 1959 for £12,000. Three years later after having scored 47 goals in 111 games, he was sold to Chelsea for £100,000. Don't suppose that poor old Bedford got a sell-on payment!

 

[loz]

whatever we paid for both Sammy and Royce must have been good value (seem to remember the latter being dirt cheap from Heybridge Swifts).

 

[yogi bear up the cagire]

What about that ginger nut who was always dreaming of his next dream move, before he had completed the first one. Didn't we pick him up for a song from Barnet?

 

[Murkey_Mouse]

I would say Barry Corr for now, as for the past when I took supporting Southend more seriously, so its has to be Mark Gower & Freddy Eastwood.

 

[Gt Yarmouth Shrimper]

Bill Garner, bought from Bedford Town in November 1959 for £12,000. Three years later after having scored 47 goals in 111 games, he was sold to Chelsea for £100,000. Don't suppose that poor old Bedford got a sell-on payment!

Good shout Yogi, one of my personal favourites but when you compare his signing fee, his impact, his longevity at the club and his selling fee, it can only be Freddy

 

[eastwood shrimper]

Moshni, he lifts the whole team when he plays and was cheap

 

[sufcnum1]

my fav players from the 90's
tilson, CROWN, benjiman martin butler, powell, clarke samson royce

 

[Mbof]

Got to be Stanley Collymore plus I got his right sock from the last game he played for us.....

 

[Tommy2holes]

Good shout Yogi, one of my personal favourites but when you compare his signing fee, his impact, his longevity at the club and his selling fee, it can only be Freddy

True but compared to collymore who single handedly kept us in the championship and cost 100k and was evenyually sold for 3.75 million the two dont compare.

 

[localboysteve]

It has to be Stan, surely?! He was immense and we received a huge amount from him when we sold him on. Best player I've ever seen at Roots Hall in a Southend United shirt, had it all. IMHO.