30 Years Ago

[Feck_the_Huns]

Paul Mason was a very good player for us. No using of google etc....but can anyone remember who and how much we spent signing him from?

About £200k

Scousers are traditionally like Huns - cnuts - but he was the exception

But when it comes to Huns, there are no exceptions- they are all cnuts, especially those from Aberdeen and wee teuchter NE villages.

[afc1903mad]

About £200k

Scousers are traditionally like Huns - cnuts - but he was the exception

But when it comes to Huns, there are no exceptions- they are all cnuts, especially those from Aberdeen and wee teuchter NE villages.

Nah he was £400k.
Snelders came at the same time for £300k.
Van Der Ark came from Holland around the same time too, but can’t remember how much for or if it was a little later

[Devanha Red]

About £200k

Scousers are traditionally like Huns - cnuts - but he was the exception

But when it comes to Huns, there are no exceptions- they are all cnuts, especially those from Aberdeen and wee teuchter NE villages.

Scousers / Weegies / Geordies all cut from the same **** stained cloth.

[Don_Corleone]

Nah he was £400k.
Snelders came at the same time for £300k.
Van Der Ark came from Holland around the same time too, but can’t remember how much for or if it was a little later

Was there a reason why we seemed to be signing a lot of players from Holland around that time? Snelders, Mason, Gillhaus, Van Der Ark, Van De Ven etc - that was the first Aberdeen side I really remember, about 1990 onwards.

How much would these kind of players be worth in today's market - Dutch internationals some of them. Were we punching above our weight getting players like that in, or were we still able to attract because we still had a 'name' in Europe at that point?