Football fans of a certain age would probably not believe that Swindon Town used to be a Premier League club, but that's exactly what they were very briefly in the 1990s.

The Robins had a turbulent few years where they were promoted to the top flight but were quickly sent back to Division One - and then the following season were relegated into the third tier.

Swindon have spent the majority of the 21st century in League One, although there have been a few occasions where the club have dropped into the fourth tier.

As you can imagine the club haven't spent nearly as much on transfer fees in this period than they did in the 1990s when they were aiming for the top flight, and many of the players you're about to see may not be known by the younger generation of Robins.

Let's look at the top 10 record signings at the County Ground and see what they're upto now.

Scottish striker Shearer was a 1988 capture from Huddersfield Town for a fee of £250,000, and he was just as prolific as his namesake Alan who went on to play for England.

Shearer was a club-record transfer for Swindon at the time and he repaid the transfer fee with lots of goals - 79 of them in 164 league outings - and in 1991 he was named the Robins' Player of the Year and named in the Division Two Team of the Season.

A £800,000 move to Blackburn Rovers followed and coincidentally after just a few months he was replaced by Alan Shearer, whilst Duncan returned to Scotland to play for Aberdeen.

Shearer went into coaching following his retirement and in 2013 he was put in temporary charge of Inverness Caledonian Thistle's first team and also works for the Press Association.

One of Swindon's rare outlays since the millennium, Woolery arrived from Wigan Athletic in 2017 for a fee of £350,000.

Having gained experience in the Championship two seasons prior with Bolton, Woolery was seen as someone who could develop and be sold on by Swindon should he score goals.

Woolery was never prolific for the Robins though, and after three seasons at the club and just 12 league goals scored he was released, subsequently signing for League Two side Tranmere Rovers in September 2020.

A combative midfielder, Bullock made over 100 league appearances for Huddersfield before making a £400,000 move to Swindon in 1997.

It was a low-key spell for Bullock though, who played plenty of times but was sold on for half that fee two years later to Bury, and he retired in 2002 at the age of 33 after a brief spell at Worcester City.

Since retirement, Bullock became a window cleaner - a far cry from his days of being paid to play in the Football League - but it proves that not every footballer who moves for decent money ends up making a massive success out of their chosen career.

Another one of the rare Swindon six-figure transfers of the 21st century, Australian midfielder Luongo was initially on loan from Tottenham but made the move permanent in the summer of 2013 for £400,000.

Luongo received his first Australia cap whilst at the Robins and was a key figure of the 2015 side that reached the League One play-off final.

Ultimately though after they were defeated 4-0 at Wembley by Preston North End he was to depart, and it was just days after the loss when he made the move to Queens Park Rangers - he's now at Sheffield Wednesday but has been recently struggling with injuries.

Another loan that turned into a permanent deal, Vigouroux was a £400,000 capture from Liverpool in July 2016 after a successful previous season with the Robins.

After an incident with a match official in 2017, Vigouroux was banned for four games and ended up competing with Reice Charles-Cook for the goalkeeper's shirt and only made 14 league appearances in the 2017/18 season.

He eventually departed Swindon in 2019 for Chile (a nation who he has one under-20 cap for), where he was signed by Everton de Vina del Mar, but failed to make an appearance and is now back in England with Leyton Orient.

Allison had already moved a number of times for transfer fees before ending up at the County Ground in 1995, having signed from Bristol City for a fee of £475,000.

The striker scored 31 times in the league in 101 outings before moving on two years later to Huddersfield Town, with Swindon making a profit having sold him on for £800,000.

Since his retirement in 2008, Allison has completed a PhD on studying 'the effects of high-intensity exercise on decision-making in soccer', officially making him a doctor.

Allison also managed Welsh Premier League side Cardiff Met University briefly in 2017, and that to date is his only permanent role in management.

After excelling early in his career for Leyton Orient, defender Whitbread made the move to Swindon for £500,000 in 1993.

Whitbread would last just one season at the Robins, but he was a regular as he played 36 times in the Premier League, a league in which he stayed in after moving to West Ham United in 1994.

After playing most of the rest of his career for Portsmouth, Whitbread got into coaching and has been at a number of different clubs.

He has assisted at the likes of Brentford, MK Dons and Leicester City under Martin Allen, and even had a spell abroad managing the likes of Puerto Rico Islanders and Antigua Barracuda FC.

Whitbread returned to England where he assisted Allen once again, firstly at Barnet and then at Chesterfield, where he left in 2018.

In 2019 he was named the head coach of Bentley Sports Group in Florida, and that will involve him moving to Cyprus to help set up a footballing centre to 'offer promising players the chance to rebuild their careers'.

After scoring prolifically in Norway and then Austria for Rapid Vienna, Fjortoft became Swindon's record signing in 1993 upon promotion to the Premier League, costing the Robins £500,000.

Despite relegation back to the second tier in 1994, Fjortoft went on a crazy scoring run of 13 goals in 17 outings in the second half of the season, and continued his form into the following campaign, scoring 25 times in 48 appearances and secured himself a move to Middlesbrough towards the end of that season.

Fjortoft has had many jobs since retiring, including being Director of Football at Lillestrom from 2004 until 2008 and has been an advisor for the Norway national team.

The Norwegian will be known by football fans in the USA as well as he is a regular pundit on the ESPN channel in the country.

Robinson was a promising pick-up by Newcastle in 1993 from Barnsley, but atfter a horrific leg break he was never the same player and he was sold on to Swindon for £600,000 a year later.

He spent the rest of his professional career with the Robins, making 271 league appearances for the club before retiring in 2002.

We're unsure as to what Robinson is doing nowadays at the age of 52, but make no mistake about it - he was iconic for Swindon Town in the eight years he spent there and whilst he never won the Player of the Year award, Robinson was always very reliable.

Swindon's most expensive signing was a bit of a flop, having brought Beauchamp in for a club record fee of £800,000 from West Ham United in 1994 - a record that stands 27 years later.

The midfielder already had his card marked due to his ties with Oxford United, and after just one full season at the Robins Beauchamp would be sold on at a loss - he would return to his former home at Oxford for just £75,000.

Beauchamp played the rest of his professional career at Oxford, and as of 2019 he works in a bookmakers, having initially become a professional gambler following his footballing retirement.