Reds land Brodie (From The Argus)

Reds land Brodie

10:00am Wednesday 1st September 2010 in Sport

Crawley have taken their spending to a staggering £565,000 today after signing York City striker Richard Brodie.

The Argus understands Reds have paid £275,000 for the 23-year-old England C international, who was signed three minutes before the transfer window shut last night.

The prolific Brodie has scored 53 goasls in 135 appearances since joining York in 2007 including 26 last season in the Conference, one fewer than Matt Tubbs who is already at the Broadfield.

Brodie opened his account for the new season in Saturday's 3-0 win over Altrincham and on the same day Reds' co-owner Bruce Winfield revealed that the club had tried to sign Brodie last week.

Cash-strapped York agreed to the switch but the player himself was undecided. Boss Steve Evans switched to other targets and signed Ben Wright from Peterborough for £60,000 but the Brodie deal was resurected over the weekend.

He is the 16th player Evans has signed since Winfield gave him the green light to build a squad capable of challening for a place in the Football League in July, six of whom are strikers.