Quote Originally Posted by North Cardiff Blue View Post
From memory without looking into it.

Chopra, McCormack, Loovens, Ramsey, Johnson, Jerome, Alexander, Hasselbeck, and Heaton were any of them sold?

I may be off the mark, but I seem to remember he had to sell a big name most years?
Chopra was sold for £5m, we bought him back for £4m and sold him again for £1.5m.
McCormack went for a low 6 figure sum.
Loovens went for just over £2m
Ramsey was a steal at £5m
Johnson was sold for £5m
Jerome went for around £4m
Alexander's contract expired and he wasn't played at the end of his last season to avoid activating an appearance bonus.
Hasselbaink retired.
Heaton went on a free to Bristol City.

In addition, Chris Gunter went to Spurs for anything between £2-4m.

6 players left during Jones's time with us for £2m and more. Our seventh best transfer fee was £750k, miraculously paid to us for Steve McLean.

In all bar Jones's last season did we sell at least one player for millions, though in 2009/10 we used funds from the sale of Roger Johnson to spend millions on Chopra.

It is widely known that Jones and Ridsdale had a general policy of paying little or nothing in transfer fees and using that money to pay decent wages instead.

It might be interesting to note that 3 of the 6 million pound transfer fee players were bought during the time Jones was with us - Johnson, Loovens and Chopra, so it was hardly a case that Jones was regularly turning his transfers into million pound players.

In both 2009/10 and 2010/11 we spent more on transfers than we recouped.