List of West Bromwich Albion F.C. records and statistics
Progression of record transfer fee paid

List of West Bromwich Albion F.C. records and statistics

Section Title: Progression of record transfer fee paid
Table Section Text: None

#	Name	Fee	Paid to	Date	Notes

1	England Bobby Blood	£4,000	Port Vale	February 1921

2	England George Shaw	£4,100	Huddersfield Town	December 1926

3	England Cecil Shaw	£7,500	Wolverhampton Wanderers	December 1936

4	IrelandRepublic of Ireland Jack Vernon	£9,500	Belfast Celtic	February 1947

5	England Ronnie Allen	£20,000	Port Vale	March 1950

6	England Bobby Robson	£25,000	Fulham	March 1956

7	England John Kaye	£44,750	Scunthorpe United	May 1963

8	England Colin Suggett	£100,000	Sunderland	June 1969

9	Scotland Willie Johnston	£138,000	Rangers	December 1972

10	England David Mills	£516,000	Middlesbrough	January 1979

11	England Peter Barnes	£748,000	Manchester City	January 1979

12	Republic of Ireland Kevin Kilbane	£1,250,000	Preston North End	13 June 1997

13	EnglandGrenada Jason Roberts	£2,000,000	Bristol Rovers	26 July 2000

14	Wales Jason Koumas	£2,250,000	Tranmere Rovers	29 August 2002

15	England Lee Hughes	£2,500,000	Coventry City	29 August 2002

16	Denmark Martin Albrechtsen	£2,700,000	F.C. Copenhagen	3 June 2004

17	Wales Robert Earnshaw	£3,500,000	Cardiff City	30 August 2004

18	Spain Borja Valero	£4,700,000	RCD Mallorca	22 August 2008

19	Republic of Ireland Shane Long	£5 million	Reading	9 August 2011

20	Benin Stéphane Sessègnon	£6.6 million	Sunderland	2 September 2013

21	Nigeria Brown Ideye	£10 million	Dynamo Kiev	18 July 2014

22	Venezuela José Salomón Rondón	£12 million	Russia Zenit Saint Petersburg	10 August 2015

23	Belgium Nacer Chadli	£13 million	Tottenham Hotspur	29 August 2016

24	Scotland Oliver Burke	£15 million	Germany RB Leipzig	25 August 2017

Sentence(s)

In 1979, Barnes was sold for a fee of £748,000.

final_sentence: In 1979, Barnes was sold for a fee of £748,000.