Biggest transfer fee for LOI player ?

**Tony Soprano** · 19/08/2010, 3:32 PM

Anyone know what the biggest fee received by an LOI club is ?

Straight up fee, and also add ons and % of sell on fee

Has any LOI club ever received a big sell on fee ? Would Cork (or receiver) have gotten anything if Kevin Doyle had moved from Wolves this summer ?

**Saint_Charlie** · 19/08/2010, 3:36 PM

Didn't Cork sell their rights to any future % when they were up the creek a few years ago? Think it went for 100k

**osarusan** · 19/08/2010, 3:38 PM

I think Cork lost something like 600,000 euros by doing that?

**Tony Soprano** · 19/08/2010, 3:43 PM

roughly 10% of the 6.5m wolves paid reading ? ouch

**Dodge** · 19/08/2010, 3:49 PM

I'd imagine Cork selling Roy O'Donovan was the highest

**Duggie** · 19/08/2010, 3:53 PM

would it not be fahey to birmingham???

**FrOsTy** · 19/08/2010, 3:56 PM

We sold Daryl Murphy for 100K. Seem to remember Alan Bennett went for 300K+. Did Coventry pay for Deegan?

**outspoken** · 19/08/2010, 4:01 PM

I seem to remember a Cork player going for 350,000 , 400,000 thousand cant rember who though.......would it have been Houlghan

**pineapple stu** · 19/08/2010, 4:04 PM

We sold Joe Hanrahan to Manchester United for �30k in 1985. That'd be pushing E150k in today's money I'd say?

**thischarmingman** · 19/08/2010, 4:08 PM

Originally Posted by pineapple stu

We sold Joe Hanrahan to Manchester United for �30k in 1985. That'd be pushing E150k in today's money I'd say?

Close-ish.

**pineapple stu** · 19/08/2010, 4:10 PM

Thanks. I was using a more scientific method though.

**sullanefc** · 19/08/2010, 6:13 PM

I think Roy O'Donovan went for something like 400k-500k. It might have been �350k sterling which was close to €500k at the time I think.

**galwayjames** · 19/08/2010, 6:21 PM

keith fahey going to birmingham was probably the biggest as that was 700k

http://rte.ie/sport/soccer/2008/1129/faheyk.html

plus roy o'donovan went for 500k in 2007

http://rte.ie/sport/soccer/2007/0809/odonovan.html

and dave mooney went for 254k in 2008.

http://rte.ie/sport/soccer/2008/0820/mooneyd.html

**HarpoJoyce** · 19/08/2010, 6:30 PM

Originally Posted by Tony Soprano

Anyone know what the biggest fee received by an LOI club is ?

Straight up fee, and also add ons and % of sell on fee

Has any LOI club ever received a big sell on fee ? Would Cork (or receiver) have gotten anything if Kevin Doyle had moved from Wolves this summer ?

Paul McGrath St. Pats Ath to Manchester United
�10,000 + Friendly game IRL�10,000 (estimate) + 1st Republic of Ireland Senior cap �10,000.
I don't know the other two currencies.

**Ciaran W** · 19/08/2010, 7:02 PM

I sold jason byrne for 1m in championship manager

**SkStu** · 19/08/2010, 9:57 PM

Originally Posted by **FrOsTy**

Did Coventry pay for Deegan?

about e80k.

**Ciaran W** · 19/08/2010, 10:47 PM

80k ? Hes a smashing footballer, hes worth well more then that.

**SkStu** · 19/08/2010, 10:52 PM

he was out of contract.

**Ciaran W** · 19/08/2010, 11:03 PM

Alright thats grand so. I seen on his wikipedia thats hes been getting a few games but are all of them off the bench or has he been getting his game ? Ive been looking out for his name on gillette soccer saturday but it has not come up yet.