Alan Connell/ Kevin Drinkell

There is no real similarity. Drinkell went on the cheap however you look at it with the tribunal and all that. He was a proven striker over several years having come into the first team aged 16. (Mulready - take note!) His game had come on in leaps and bounds through playing with Trevor Wymark. It was a loss to the club but not a disaster because we had a decent team, we were not a one man band and we still had Wilkinson and Lund at that stage.

Connell has had one good season as a striker out of 10 years as a pro. As people have said on the positive/negative thread, he went off the boil in 2011. The side has been totally re-vamped and there is no guarantee he would even be first choice let alone the leading scorer for this season. Swindon are the ones taking the risk here, not us.

I thought that the tribunal set the fee for Norwich at a derisory £105K.  Maybe wrong.

Was Drinks also the first person signed by Rangers as part of the English invasion?   Hateley et al?

David Pleat, when Luton manager in the equivalent of the Championship,  said that "Kevin Drinkell (when he was a teenager) had the most potential of any striker in the lower divisions".

How we could do with him now.  Top scorer in the Division when we went up to the Championship in 1979/80.   The glory days.

Quoted from TownSNAFU5

I thought that the tribunal set the fee for Norwich at a derisory £105K.  Maybe wrong

No....that's spot on. As I recall it, it was definitely £105k

Links to Man City, Middlesborough, Leeds all Bidding 300K and interest from Everton, Celtic and Norwich (Prem team at the time, so I was wrong earlier) bid 140K.  Norwich upped their bid from 140K to 165K when they got knocked back.

Drinks contract was what swung the panel to offer 105K, it seems that the basic wage was a decent one but to get the extra's Drinks would have to have scored 30 goals a season over 3 seasons (90 goals over 3 seasons WTF).  He wasn't even allowed to score 29 one season and 31 the next, it had to be 30 or more a season or he didn't get his bonuses.  Booth was ready to accept the 165K but the directors knew best.

Quoted from Marinerz93

Links to Man City, Middlesborough, Leeds all Bidding 300K and interest from Everton, Celtic and Norwich (Prem team at the time, so I was wrong earlier) bid 140K.  Norwich upped their bid from 140K to 165K when they got knocked back.

Drinks contract was what swung the panel to offer 105K, it seems that the basic wage was a decent one but to get the extra's Drinks would have to have scored 30 goals a season over 3 seasons (90 goals over 3 seasons WTF).  He wasn't even allowed to score 29 one season and 31 the next, it had to be 30 or more a season or he didn't get his bonuses.  Booth was ready to accept the 165K but the directors knew best.

Partly true. Perhaps more importantly, Sir Arthur South (Norwich chairman and socialist mayor of Norwich) was the chairman of the panel FFS!

Quoted from Paddymariner

Partly true. Perhaps more importantly, Sir Arthur South (Norwich chairman and socialist mayor of Norwich) was the chairman of the panel FFS!

Not an impartial panel then, was this known at the time because it doesn't mention that in Drinks book.

[quote=347]Links to Man City, Middlesborough, Leeds all Bidding 300K and interest from Everton, Celtic and Norwich (Prem team at the time, so I was wrong earlier) bid 140K.  Norwich upped their bid from 140K to 165K when they got knocked back.

Drinks contract was what swung the panel to offer 105K, it seems that the basic wage was a decent one but to get the extra's Drinks would have to have scored 30 goals a season over 3 seasons (90 goals over 3 seasons WTF).  He wasn't even allowed to score 29 one season and 31 the next, it had to be 30 or more a season or he didn't get his bonuses.  Booth was ready to accept the 165K but the directors knew best.[/quote

Booth let Kevin Drinkel down Man City came in before Norwich with a decent fee but it was not passed onto the board for some unknown reason.
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