The crazy sums of money being bandied about on European transfer deadline day got me wondering.

 

Which player to have graced the TCS turf has commanded the highest transfer fee (at any point in his career)?

 

 

The subject of this thread asks who was the most valuable player to play at TCS. My contribution was Barry F who was valued at 7.5 million at one point in his career and he played at TCS. In fact he's even scored at TCS. Seems a sensible enough point to me.

 

The subject of the thread is who was the most valuable player to play at TCS so why mention someone who was valued at far less than players that had already been mentioned ? Seems a stupid point to me ,

Edited September 3, 201312 yr by DALNEIGHCALEY

Just one of not very many high value players to have played at TCS. Another now being James McCarthy at £13 million

I see some of the U16 European Championship which was held in Scotland, had matches played in Inverness (presumably at the Caley Stadium and some were also played in Dingwall), so potentially some major players might have been in those squads, as well as some of the other minor internationals played here over the years.

 

Could this not be the same competition where a young Thierry Henry played at Victoria Park?

Edited September 11, 201312 yr by Renegade

At the 1998 U16 Euros we hosted games involving Portugal, Russia, Ukraine and Israel. Can't find team line-ups anywhere, but alas this was too early for Cristiano Ronaldo.

 

The tournament was won by Ireland, including St Mirren's Jim Goodwin. So the standard can't have been great.

I could only get the Irish and Russian teams up.  Ireland had John O'Shea and a couple of the Russian players seem to have alright at domestic level, but nothing spectacular.

So as far as I can tell the top 3 listings are;

Victor Wanyama - Celtic to Southampton - £12.5m

James McCarthy - Wigan to Everton - £13m

Craig Bellamy - West Ham to Man City - £14m

Edited September 11, 201312 yr by HeScoresWhenHeWants