I remember the Trevor Francis transfer saga like it was yesterday. We were an okay above mid-table first division team. Blues put this million pound price tag on him and none of the then big boys were interested. The reason we became interested was our then chairman one Jimmy Hill, he had his hands in football in the USA and Washington Diplomats in particular and his plan was for Francis to play here and the US. So I don’t know if the fee was between us and them or not.
Forest with the influential Brian Clough were always the front runners to sign him though, It was an astronomical fee in those days I’m sure it was double the then transfer fee record and it changed fees at a stroke and the million pound player was born. To answer was Francis any good yes he was and from the young age of 16.
