Mate 's neighbour

[Herts Clarets]

Guy I deal with through work phoned me yesterday and amongst other topics, he said I have a new next door neighbour who you may know. Who might that be?

Wayne Thomas, used to play for Burnley. Do you remember him. Of course I do, he was poor for us and we had Southampton's trousers down getting a million or so for him.

[aclaretinstevenage]

Genius from Burnley to get that fee for a less than "bang average" player. Mind you he earned a living from the game which a lot of us would like to have done.

[Red Fox Rocks Socks]

Don’t think he played many games for them either. Think he might of done his ACL pretty soon after signing for them

[4midable]

Who

[claptrappers_union]

Harsh to say he was poor, was a decent defender and we didn't see the best of him - but we did get a ridiculous fee for and brought in Clarke Carlisle for a patience as a replacement. Great business.

[daveisaclaret]

Was probably better over his career than we saw of him but 4 red cards in his first 27 games for us meant Burnley fans were never gonna take to him.

[claretburns]

Was it £1.2 million to Southampton then signed Carlisle for 200k from Watford?

[summitclaret]

3 million. Same as Benson, Zaroury and Al Dakhil.

[Fretters]

3 million. Same as Benson, Zaroury and Al Dakhil.

Pretty sure it was £1.2 million. Cotterill was brilliant in the transfer market.

[Burnley1989]

Not harsh, I judge him purely on what I watched at Burnley and he was dreadful

Unreal business offloading him

[Burnley1989]

Pretty sure it was £1.2 million. Cotterill was brilliant in the transfer market.

Must admit I thought it was more, 500k would have been good business

[warksclaret]

Played for 15 clubs and went on to a far old age. He did his ACL with us too but made a swift recovery, without requiring surgery. Cotterill flew over to Florida to sign him whilst he was on hols

[Hipper]

Guy I deal with through work phoned me yesterday and amongst other topics, he said I have a new next door neighbour who you may know. Who might that be?

Wayne Thomas, used to play for Burnley. Do you remember him. Of course I do, he was poor for us and we had Southampton's trousers down getting a million or so for him.

What's he up to now then?

He seems to have remained in football.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wayne_Tho ... born_1979)

https://www.worcesternews.co.uk/sport/1 ... le-future/

[NL Claret]

Got a few red cards as well from memory?

[Culmclaret]

I felt that million we got for Thomas was the start of our renaissance!

[ClaretsPadiham]

I felt that million we got for Thomas was the start of our renaissance!

Correct Owen Coyle spent it on a lorry full of Iron Bru and the rest is history.

[nil_desperandum]

If we got £1.2 million for him then that would be over £2 million in today's money, so not far off Zaroury, Benson etc.