Jason Dodd

Have only just realised that he's been appointed as a coach as Gosport.

Also, we sold him for £15,000 (plus add-ons?) - is this the highest transfer fee we've received for a player?

In fact the fee for Dodd was paid quite some time after he left us. It was a complicated affair but I think we were desperate for money and waved the sell on clause we had signed with Saints in exchange for some cash.

Dave Wiffil left us for Man City for £25k - in the archive section Yuffie says it was then a club record, suggesting someone has gone for more, but I can't think who? The whippet?

Hmm, I'll have to do some digging. As far as I'm aware the last time we received a fee for a player was Andy Sandell in 2006, plus a sell-on after he joined Salisbury from Bristol Rovers.

£25k from Man City, eh? They probably spend that on a player's suit nowadays.

Must update the archive section soon.

I think in the end we got around £60K for Jason Dodd, of which a large part was Southampton buying out the 25% sell-on clause. Not long afterwards he looked set to join Man City for over £1m but this fell through so for once we came out on the right side of a transfer deal!

stillmanjunior wrote:£25k from Man City, eh? They probably spend that on a player's suit nowadays.

As do North Ferriby according to some reports

Farnborough didn't bother with any of that nonsense, not even tracksuits. One of their players walked past me after the game looking like a One Direction wannabe.

stillmanjunior wrote:Farnborough didn't bother with any of that nonsense, not even tracksuits. One of their players walked past me after the game looking like a One Direction wannabe.

Doesn't one of the One Direction members "play" for Doncaster? Clearly a publicity stunt, although I bet he would have performed better than some of those Farnborough players on Saturday.