20 Most Expensive Football Player Transfers Of All Time

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If we take a deeper look into the 20 most expensive tranfer you can see that Real Madrid dominates the list with 7 entries in the top 20 list of transfers while all current top 10 tranfers happened since 2009 and out of top 20 most expensive player transfers only 6 happened before year 2009. Which goes to show that top clubs like Real Madrid, Barcelona, Manchester United, Man City and Chelsea are not afraid to spend big to lure top players.

Top 10 Most Expensive Transfers:

All Time Most Expensive Player Transfers in Football History

Update: recently an independent website called “Football Leaks” has leaked several high profile tranfers including Gareth Bale’s move to Real Madrid which allegedly cost Real Madrid £90million unlike previously stated £85.1. The total transfer fee was paid in 4 installments which also included payments (£1m million to Southampton who helped Bale’s development) while Real Madrid also had to waive £3 million of what Tottenham owed Madrid for Van Der Vaart transfer. Below is the list of top 10 most expensive transfers of all times.

Top 20 Most Expensive Transfers of All Times
NO# PLAYER TRANSFER FEE
1 gareth bale salaryGareth Bale (2013) Totteham to Real Madrid £93.1
2 Cristiano RonaldoCristiano Ronaldo (2009) Man Utd to Real Madrid £83.7
3 suarezLuis Suarez (2014) Liverpool to Barcelona £75m
4 Neymar (2015) Santos to Barcelona £71.5m
5 Kevin De Bruyn (2015) Wolfsburg to Manchester City £69.7
6 James RodriguezJames Rodriguez (2014) Monaco to Real Madrid £63m
7 Zlatan IbrahimovicZlatan Ibrahimovic (2009) InterMilan to Barcelona £40m+Eto’o
8 Angel Di Maria salaryAngel Di Maria (2014) Real Madrid to Man Utd £59.7m
9 KakaKaka (2009) AC Milan to Real Madrid £56m
10 Edinson CavaniEdinson Cavani (2013) Napoli to PSG £55m
11 Raheem Sterling (2015) Liverpool vs Manchester City £55.2
12 Angle Di Maria (2015) Manchester United to PSG £49.7
13 Radamel FalcaoRademal Falcao (2013) Atletico Madrid to Monaco £51m
14 David LuizDavid Luis (2014) Chelsea to PSG £50m
15 Fernando TorresFernando Torres (2011) Liverpool to Chelsea £50m
16 Carlos TevezCarlos Tevez  (2009) To Man City £47m
17 Zinedine ZidaneZinedine Zidane (2001) Juventus to Real Madrid £46m
18 Mesut OzilMesut Özil (2013) Real Madrid to Arsenal £42.4m
19 James RodriguezJames Rodríguez (2013) FC Porto to AS Monaco £38.5
20 Luis FigoLuis Figo (2000) Barcelona to Real Madrid £37m
21 Hernan CrespoHernán Crespo (2000) Parma to Lazio £35.5m

The biggest clubs in football keep splashing the cash and bring in worlds best players to their club to keep themselves at the very top of football elites. Real Madrid seem to spend big on that one big player every year which is tauted to be the next big thing, they already broke their own record several times when they spend world record fee for a player transfer and Real Madrid’s several transfers feature in the top 20 most expensive player transfers in the history of football.

So today we take a look at the 20 players who cost most money in transfer fee and the average transfer fee for a top player has increased dramatically in the last few years which is pretty evident in the top 10 list of highest transfer fee ever paid by clubs.