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Transfer
History of Great Britain
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| | 1935 | Lawton, Tommy | |
| Signs for Second Division club Burnley, despite flat feet and needing to wear orthotics, as a striker, he rapidly achieved fame for his pace, heading ability and two-footed effectiveness in front of goal |
| 1937 | Lawton, Tommy | |
| Lawton is bought by First Division Everton for œ6,500 to play alongside the phenomenal, but ageing, Dixie Dean |
| 1945 | Lawton, Tommy | |
| Joins Chelsea for œ11,500 |
| 1947 | Lawton, Tommy | |
| Despite being at the peak of his playing career, shocks the football world with a move to Third Division Notts County for a record transfer fee of œ20,000 |
| 1952 | Lawton, Tommy | |
| Appointed player-manager at Brentford |
| 1953 | Lawton, Tommy | |
| Joins Arsenal for œ10,000 and sees out his professional playing career there, in two years for the Gunners scores 15 goals in 38 matches |
| 1956 | Robson, "Bobby" Robert William | |
| Signs for Vic Buckingham's West Bromwich Albion, the transfer fee of œ25,000 is a club record for Albion at the time |
| 1962 | Robson, "Bobby" Robert William | |
| Returns to Fulham after a disagreement with Albion vice-chairman Jim Gaunt over his salary |
| 1967 | Robson, "Bobby" Robert William | |
| Leaves Fulham and accepts a three-year deal with Canada's Vancouver Royals |
| 1978 | Dalglish, Kenny | |
| Liverpool Liverpool replace Kevin Keegan with Kenny Dalglish |
| 1978 | Keegan, Joseph Kevin | |
| Hamburg After 323 appearances and exactly 100 goals, Keegan leaves Liverpool & joins Hamburg SV in Germany for œ500,000 |
| 1980 | Keegan, Joseph Kevin | |
| 10th Aug Southampton Lawrie McMenemy calls a press conference at the Potters Heron hotel, Ampfield to announce that the European Footballer of the Year Kevin Keegan will be joining Southampton F.C. in the forthcoming summer |
| 1980 | McMenemy, Lawrie | |
| 10th Aug Southampton Lawrie McMenemy calls a press conference at the Potters Heron hotel, Ampfield to announce that the European Footballer of the Year Kevin Keegan will be joining Southampton F.C. in the forthcoming summer |
| 1982 | Keegan, Joseph Kevin | |
| Newcastle A few days before the start of the 1982-83 season Keegan signs for Second Division Newcastle United for a fee of œ100,000 |
| 1988 | Gascoigne, Paul John | |
| Signs for Spurs, who pay Newcastle a fee of œ2.3 million, a British transfer record |
| 1991 | Gascoigne, Paul John | |
| The final, against Nottingham Forest, turns out to be disastrous for Gascoigne as he injures himself badly, bedore the final he had already agreed terms to join Italian club Lazio in an œ8.5 million deal and wanted to leave Spurs on a high |
| 1992 | Gascoigne, Paul John | |
| 27th Sep Lazio Joins Lazio for a fee of œ5.5 million, making his debut on 27 September 1992 in a match against Genoa which was televised in Britain as well as Italy |
| 1995 | Gascoigne, Paul John | |
| Glasgow Signs for Rangers of the Scottish Premier League, for a fee of œ4.3 million |
| 1996 | Shearer, Alan | |
| England striker Alan Shearer is transferred from Blackburn Rovers to Newcastle for a then world record fee of œ15 million |
| 1998 | Gascoigne, Paul John | |
| Mar Middlesbrough Joins Middlesbrough for œ3.4 million |
| 1999 | Gascoigne, Paul John | |
| Trans ferred to Everton |
| 2002 | Gascoigne, Paul John | |
| Trans ferred to Burnley |
| 2003 | Gascoigne, Paul John | |
| Signs a nine-month contact with Chinese club Gansu Tianma in both a playing and coaching role, but after going to America for treatment against drink and depression in April, he failed to return |
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