But Thompson was signed when he had just turned 18 & had already broken into Stockports first team & cost £250k with the add ons. He was on no more than £1k a week - hardly the worst signing we've made! At that age you never know how they will kick on in their development, he could have been immense & we could be talking about trying to hold on to him this transfer window Its the risk you take when buying young players, only thing you can do is minimize the risk by buying them as cheap as possible, unearthing a raw talent you believe our coaching staff to progess in to a top player.
I think that big Tony should have been aware of one thing, he is without the slowest player under 30 years old, to play out the field in the SPL. Good enough in most other aspects of the game but far too slow.
