The WAB Friday Quiz #101

There has been a lot of talk about Brighton & Hove Albion player sales recently, both amongst fans and at boardroom level.

Paul Barber said at last week’s Fans’ Forum that Brighton might sell an asset for big money to try and make some cash to reduce those £67 million losses recorded in the 2019-20 season. Some fans feel that such a flash sale could fund the clinical finisher the Albion so clearly need.

It has been a while since Brighton flogged a first choice player. By our reckoning you have to go back (deleted because it gives an answer away) for the last man that the Albion moved on against their will.

Brighton have not been a selling club for years. There was a time in the not-too-distant past though when the family silver had to be auctioned off on a constant basis to pay the bills.

This week’s WAB Friday Quiz takes a look at some of those occasions. You have 20 questions to tackle on Brighton player sales over the past 40 or so years. Time to find out how much you know about the players who have left the Albion for serious wonga.

The WAB Friday Quiz #101 - Brighton Players Sold
Who was manager of Celtic when the Bhoys decided to hand over £1.5 million to the Albion for Adam Virgo?

What fee were Sunderland reported to have paid the Albion for Will Buckley in the summer of 2014?

Liverpool set a long-standing record for biggest transfer fee received for a Brighton player when signing who from the Albion for £900,000?

Leon Knight left Brighton to join which club for a fee of £120,000?

Two players were sold during Gus Poyet's time in charge for fees of over £1 million. Craig Noone was one. Who was the other?

When Burnley paid £250,000 for Kurt Nogan in the 1994-95 season, how many games had he gone without a goal for Brighton?

How many players in Brighton history have been sold for eight figure fees in excess of £10,000,000?

Who had scored seven goals from the first 15 games of the 1991-92 season before being sold for £225,000 to Sunderland?

Which of these players did Rangers pay the most money to the Albion to sign?

Four months after scoring Brighton's first ever goal in the top flight, Teddy Maybank was sold to which club for £150,000?

In which summer did Bobby Zamora move to Tottenham Hotspur for £1.5 million?

Which club did Joel Lynch permanently move to for £200,000 in the summer of 2009?

What was notable about goalkeeper Eric Steele's sale to Watford in October 1979?

How much did Danny Cullip move to Sheffield United for in December 2004?

With his move for £3 million in January 2014, which of these players became Brighton's record sale?

After firing Brighton to the Division Two playoff final in the 1990-91 season, Mike Small was sold for £400,000 to which club?

Which Brighton manager sanctioned the sale of Steve Foster to Aston Villa in March 1984?

Brighton turned down a bid of how much from Fulham for Lewis Dunk in the summer of 2015, causing Dunk to hand in a transfer request?

Which young player moved to Brescia for £4 million in the summer of 2019 after making just two substitute appearances for Brighton in the League Cup?

Liverpool paid £3 million for Dean Saunders' services. Four years earlier, how much did Brighton famously sell him to Oxford United for?

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