Complex sentence: Peter Shilton was signed from Stoke for £270,000, then a record transfer fee for a goalkeeper, and a week after his arrival Archie Gemmill joined from Derby in a £100,000 deal that also saw Shilton's predecessor John Middleton move in the opposite direction.
Split into simpler sentences: Peter Shilton was signed from Stoke for £270,000, then a record transfer fee for a goalkeeper. A week after his arrival, Archie Gemmill joined from Derby in a £100,000 deal that saw Middleton move in the opposite direction.