With add ons the total fee was £1.15m beating the previous most expensive transfer in British football, David Mills from Middlesbrough to West Bromwich Albion. read this link about transfers.
It's a ling time since Alf Common cost £1,000 involving Middlesbrough back in the day.
http://www.myfootballfacts.com/BritishFootballPlayerTransferRecords1904-2009.html
Alf was born in Sunderland, played for them, went to Sheffield United for £325 and won an FA Cup medal with the Blades in 1902 after helping Sunderland AFC to a runners-up place in the First Division. After that he scored 58 goals in 168 apps for Middlesbrough, had a spell at Woolwich Arsenal and helped Preston to a Second Division promotion in 1913. With all his clubs he averaged 1 goal in 3 games. With 3 England caps and two goals, his career came to halt with the Great War but he lived on until 1946, running pubs in the north-east and that sort of thing!
David Mills, who cost £516,000, came from Whitby Town and had played for England Schoolboys as a forward. He joined Middlesbrough in 1968 and stayed there for 11 years, making nearly 300 appearances. He scored 76 goals before moving on to the Baggies under Ron Atkinson.
From there he moved to Sheffield Wednesday, Newcastle United, back to Middlesbrough in 1985 and finished off at Darlington and then home to Whitby Town.
Trevor Francis, born in Plymouth, was more prominent as a footballer and manager spending time at Birmingham City (280 apps with 119 goals) so no wonder Brian wanted him. Francis had a spell at Detroit Express, Nottingham Forest (70 with 28 goals), Manchester City, Sampdoria, Atalanta (USA), Rangers, Wollongong City in Australia, QPR and Sheffield Wednesday, two clubs he managed, along with Birmingham City and Crystal Palace.
He suffered a heart attack in April 2012.
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