The first transfer for which Manchester United (then Newton Heath) had to pay a fee was the transfer of Gilbert Godsmark from Ashford in January 1900, paying £40 for the forward.[51] The club's first £1,000 transfer came in 1910, when they signed Leslie Hofton from Glossop.[51] When the club signed Tommy Taylor from Barnsley in 1953, the fee was intended to be £30,000.