Quote Originally Posted by the other bob wilson View Post
Dunno how true it was, but there was a story doing the rounds when we were struggling financially under Sam Hammam that Shrewsbury would have accepted Ł45,000 for Hughes, but somewhere along the line, an extra nought got added on the fee.
He played a few games for the Aston Villa 1st Team as a teenager. he was a bit of a wonder boy. A left footed Centre Half. Then had chronic injury problems and hardly played for two years. Was released and rebuilt his career with Shrewsbury and we stepped in. Then the injury problems arose again. The big question was how he passed his medical.