Complex sentence: Barnes was one of the main victims of Malcolm Allison's egocentric clearout of name players in 1979, and joined West Bromwich Albion for a fee of £752,000-a club transfer record which was not broken for nearly 20 years.
Split into simpler sentences: Barnes was one of the main victims of Malcolm Allison's egocentric clearout of name players in 1979. Barnes joined West Bromwich Albion for a fee of £752,000-a club transfer record which was not broken for nearly 20 years.