Transfer (association football) to Derby County for £24,000 in March 1949. The record was broken seven further times between 1949 and 1961, when Luis Suárez was sold by Barcelona to Inter Milan for £152,000, becoming the first ever player sold for more than £100,000. In 1968, Pietro Anastasi became the first £500,000 player when Juventus purchased him from Varese, which was followed seven years later with Giuseppe Savoldi becoming the first million pound player when he transferred from Bologna to Napoli. In English football, the first £1 million fee occurred in 1979, when Nottingham Forest signed striker Trevor Francis from Birmingham City. Later
Thomas Pound with soldiers who had deserted from the local garrison. Returning to sea, Pound and his men then attacked the sloop "Good Speed" off Cape Cod and the brigantine "Merrimack" among other ships in the New England area. An armed sloop, "Mary", was soon sent out by the Massachusetts governor against Pound and his crew. On 4 October, "Mary" discovered and engaged Pound's vessel anchored off Naushon Island. In heavy fighting Pound suffered gunshot wounds and "Mary"s captain, Samuel Pease, was killed. Outnumbered and outgunned, Pound and his crew surrendered and were taken back to Boston for trial. On January 13,