Dameerto wrote:Mikhail Chigorin wrote:There was a story about Brian Clough after he had just signed Trevor Francis for a huge fee (might have been a record at the time, but I can't now remember).
They'd just had their first training session and when they all got back into the changing room afterwards, he told Francis to go and put the kettle on and make the teas for everyone.
I wonder if that sort of thing would ever happen today ??
The first million pound player.
He wasn't actually the first million pound player as it goes. Was chatting with the then secretary of Forest the other week and the fee was £975,000. It was only the VAT which took it over the £1m mark and as VAT could be claimed back on player purchases it meant he wasn't the first. Apparantly Clough didn't want to be the first manager to shell out a million for a player
