User:GEbb4/sandbox/Draft of 1995-96 in English football (Diary of the season)
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Diary of the season
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June
edit| 30 June 1995 | Tottenham Hotspur pay a club record £4.5million for striker Chris Armstrong from relegated Crystal Palace. |
July
edit| 1 July 1995 | Nottingham Forest pay a club record £2.5million for Sheffield Wednesday midfielder Chris Bart-Williams, on the same day that they sell striker Stan Collymore to Liverpool for a national record fee of £8.5million. Collymore's place in the Nottingham Forest attack is taken by Kevin Campbell, a £2.8million signing from Arsenal. |
| 3 July 1995 | Alan Ball is appointed the new manager of Manchester City. |
| 5 July 1995 | Brian Little's regeneration of Aston Villa continues with the £3.25million acquisition of Leicester City midfielder Mark Draper. |
| 6 July 1995 | Newcastle United sign French winger David Ginola from Paris St Germain for £2.5million and striker Les Ferdinand from Queen's Park Rangers for a club record £6 million. |
| 10 July 1995 | England midfielder Paul Gascoigne returns to the UK after three years away in a £4.3million move to Glasgow Rangers. |
| 12 July 1995 | George Graham is banned from football for a year as punishment for accepting illegal payments, which cost him his job as Arsenal manager five months ago. |
| 14 July 1995 | Arsenal pay a club record £4.75million for England captain David Platt from Sampdoria of Italy. Platt, 29, is now the world's costliest player with transfer fees now totalling £22.15millon since Aston Villa signed him from Crewe Alexandra for £200,000 in February 1988. |
| 17 July 1995 | Mike Naylor, chairman and founder of Football League sponsors Endsleigh Insurance, dies in Southern France when his Bentley crashes into a tree. |
| 19 July 1995 | Sheffield Wednesday sign Belgian midfielder Marc Degryse from Anderlecht for £1.5million. |
| 24 July 1995 | Footballers Bruce Grobbelaar, Hans Segers and John Fashanu are charged with being involved in match-fixing and bribery. |
| 26 July 1995 | Queen's Park Rangers sign Australia national football team captain Ned Zelic from Borussia Dortmund of Germany for £1.25million. |