Peter Thorne was on 10k a goal?

[dml1954]

Thorne was worth every penny, no matter what he was paid. We should be grateful that the club went in for players like that. Him and Kavanagh were instrumental in getting us on the map and establishing our club as a Championship side.

[stan butler]

Thorne was worth every penny, no matter what he was paid. We should be grateful that the club went in for players like that. Him and Kavanagh were instrumental in getting us on the map and establishing our club as a Championship side.

Still doesn't take away the fact we were run like a circus under Hammam ending up in a financial mess.
Tan has run the club like a circus to and has only recently got wiser ..

[Bobby Dandruff]

Thorne was worth every penny, no matter what he was paid. We should be grateful that the club went in for players like that. Him and Kavanagh were instrumental in getting us on the map and establishing our club as a Championship side.

I’m not sure that I agree with that.

£1.7m was an awful lot of money back then especially just after we’d paid £1m for Kav who in my opinion was much more influential.

[stan butler]

I’m not sure that I agree with that.

£1.7m was an awful lot of money back then especially just after we’d paid £1m for Kav who in my opinion was much more influential.

Kav bought for £1m sold for £350k

South Wales Echo.

Cardiff City skipper Graham Kavanagh has left the club.

He has been sold to Wigan Athletic today for pounds 350,000.

The Republic of Ireland international and his family were flown up to Manchester last night and passed a medical this morning.

Kavanagh, who became the Bluebirds' first pounds 1m player following his move from Stoke City in the summer of 2001, is the first departure following this week's news that the cash-strapped Ninian Park club have debts thought to be in the region of pounds 30-40m.

And while the deal will bring in much-needed funds, Kavanagh's move will stun City's supporters as they lose their influential skipper when the team are facing a relegation battle.

'I'm an emotional man and when I was told that I had to leave the club I was heartbroken and broke down in tears,' said Kavanagh.

'I was doing my C Badge on Tuesday hoping that one day I would be a coach of this club - 24 hours later I'm sold and everything is up in the air.

'I'm extremely upset about the whole thing, but I was told by the gaffer (Lennie Lawrence) that if I didn't go to Wigan the future of the club was in jeopardy.

'I love this club and planned my whole life around it.

'It has been a bloody disaster of a week, I'm devastated and emotionally drained by the whole thing.

'I was told things were not right at the start of the week and as skipper I was going around the players making sure they were up for tomorrow's match.

'But then hours later I'm the first bloody player to be sold.