List of Stoke City F.C. records and statistics
Progression of record fee paid

List of Stoke City F.C. records and statistics

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

Date	Player	Bought from	Fee

September 1894	England George Clawley	Crewe Alexandra	£10

August 1897	Scotland Jimmy McGeachan	Bolton Wanderers	£150

March 1903	England Ted Holdcroft	Burslem Port Vale	£500

August 1919	Scotland David Brown	Dundee	£1,200

August 1921	England Jimmy Broad	Millwall	£2,500

August 1929	England Wilf Kirkham	Port Vale	£2,800

March 1933	England Jack Palethorpe	Reading	£3,000

August 1938	Scotland Patrick Gallacher	Sunderland	£5,000

August 1947	Northern Ireland Jimmy McAlinden	Portsmouth	£7,000

August 1947	Scotland Tommy Kiernan	Celtic	£8,500

October 1949	Scotland Leslie Johnston	Celtic	£9,000

August 1951	England Alan Martin	Port Vale	£10,000

August 1951	Northern Ireland Sammy Smyth	Wolverhampton Wanderers	£25,000

August 1962	England Eddie Clamp	Arsenal	£35,000

August 1963	England Peter Dobing	Manchester City	£37,500

March 1965	Wales Roy Vernon	Everton	£40,000

April 1967	England Gordon Banks	Leicester City	£52,000

August 1969	England Jimmy Greenhoff	Birmingham City	£100,000

January 1974	England Alan Hudson	Chelsea	£240,000

November 1974	England Peter Shilton	Leicester City	£325,000

February 1982	Northern Ireland Sammy McIlroy	Manchester United	£350,000

July 1989	England Ian Cranson	Sheffield Wednesday	£480,000

August 1994	Canada Paul Peschisolido	Birmingham City	£580,000

December 1999	Iceland Brynjar Gunnarsson	Örgryte IS	£600,000

August 2005	Guinea Sambégou Bangoura	Standard Liège	£900,000

January 2008	England Ryan Shawcross	Manchester United	£1,000,000

January 2008	England Leon Cort	Crystal Palace	£1,200,000

August 2008	England Dave Kitson	Reading	£5,500,000

August 2009	Germany Robert Huth	Middlesbrough	£6,000,000

August 2010	Trinidad and Tobago Kenwyne Jones	Sunderland	£8,000,000

August 2011	England Peter Crouch	Tottenham Hotspur	£10,000,000

August 2015	Switzerland Xherdan Shaqiri	Inter Milan	£12,000,000

February 2016	France Giannelli Imbula	Porto	£18,300,000

Sentence(s)

Kirkham was transferred to Stoke City for a £2,800 fee, which was a club record for Stoke.

final_sentence: Kirkham was transferred to Stoke City for a £2,800 fee, which was a club record for Stoke.