Most expensive transfers in Premier League History

[Happy Blue]

Most expensive transfers in Premier League History

Premier League clubs have never shied away from spending big bucks in transfer windows and are known for shattering the record for money spent in most windows.

Although this phenomenon was restricted to a few top clubs earlier, a drastic increase in broadcast revenues and involvement of cash-rich owners has seen mid-table clubs like Newcastle United, Aston Villa, Fulham and Nottingham Forest invest heavily in players. 

Chelsea hold the record for the most expensive transfer in Premier League history. They signed Enzo Fernandez for £106.8 million from SL Benfica in January 2023.

While a Chelsea player does top the table for most expensive signings in the Premier League, it's worth pointing out that the club that features the most times in this top 10 list is Manchester United with as many as five appearances. The fact that all these signings took place in 2016 or later is another good indicator of the Premier League's burgeoning broadcast revenues and popularity around the globe.

Here is a list of the most expensive transfers in the Premier League.  https://www.sportsadda.com/football/features/most-expensive-transfers-in-premier-league

1) Enzo Fernandez Chelsea £106.8m

2) Declan Rice Arsenal £105m

3)Jack Grealish Manchester City £100m

4)Romelu Lukaku Chelsea £97.5m

5) Paul Pogba Manchester United £93.25m

6) Romelu Lukaku Manchester United £90m

7) Mykhailo Mudryk Chelsea £88.5m

8/ Antony Manchester United £82.2m

9/ Harry Maguire Manchester United £80m

10) Virgil van Dijk Liverpool £75m

11) Jadon Sancho Manchester United £73m

 

1) Manchester United £418m

2) Chelsea £292.8

3) Arsenal £105

4) Manchester City £100m

5) Liverpool £75m

[Stan]

Cool story bro

[Happy Blue]

1 hour ago, Stan said:

Cool story bro

Yep, bit of an eye opener ..maybe Pep's the difference and not money after all 

[Dr. Gonzo]

Now do wages

[Stan]

1 hour ago, Dr. Gonzo said:

Now do wages

£250k/w based on last season:

 

Five Man Utd
Five Chelsea
Four Man City players
One Arsenal
One Liverpool

 

 

What surprises me there is players like Anthony Martial, Jadon Sancho and Raphael Varane. All on high outlay for little return. 

Chelsea have got rid of nearly £1m/w with Havertz/Koulibaly/Kante all leaving. But they've obviously spent that amount and more on their new signings but longer contracts. 

[Bluewolf]

I was reading somewhere that Arsenal are paying Harvertz £330K a week for his services... 

[Dr. Gonzo]

1 hour ago, Stan said:

£250k/w based on last season:

 

Five Man Utd
Five Chelsea
Four Man City players
One Arsenal
One Liverpool

 

 

What surprises me there is players like Anthony Martial, Jadon Sancho and Raphael Varane. All on high outlay for little return. 

Chelsea have got rid of nearly £1m/w with Havertz/Koulibaly/Kante all leaving. But they've obviously spent that amount and more on their new signings but longer contracts. 

Those United ones are pretty mental tbh. Martial's really stolen a living tbh - getting paid that much as a striker with a goal rate that's not much better than a goal every 4 matches. Varane and Casemiro are pretty understandable imo - they came in from massive wages at Madrid and as players who've won a lot they were probably looking for the best financial offer possible when they moved. Casemiro's been worth it for them because he gives them a much needed mentality boost to them, I think.

De Gea's the most shocking one to me, tbh. Not that he's a bad keeper or anything - but in modern football you need to be more than just a good shot stopper. But being highest paid keeper in the world when he's been on the decline for many seasons now, tbh, is kind of mental. Sancho's also up there - obviously he's been given big wages because he was one of the higher profile transfers the window he signed for them. But that's a lot of money for a man that @DeadLinesman has basically described as a Stewart Downing type signing.

I'd like to see the City wages also accounting for those sneaky payments from Fordham Sports Management though.

[OrangeKhrush]

man United's make bad reading.  they all flopped

[Dave]

Let's not get sucked in by this wum, there's a lot more to the cost of a footballer than the rumoured transfer football fee.

[OrangeKhrush]

2 minutes ago, The Palace Fan said:

Let's not get sucked in by this wum, there's a lot more to the cost of a footballer than the rumoured transfer football fee.

that is true most overlook the wages owed over the duration.  While Maguire is a 80m tank, his wages over the contract has been around 100m on top making it a devastating buy.  Sancho is going to be a lot worse.

[Lucas]

Absolute shambles looking at lists like these and seeing players up there that don't actually reflect their value.

At least a couple decades ago, when someone became one of the the most expensive players, they genuinely warrented it And the fee was justified.

Think Alan Shearer, £3.6m Saints to Blackburn for a record breaking fee, then £15m Blackburn to Newcastle, justified because both times he was arguably the best striker in the league.

Enzo Fernandez isn't in the Top 5 best midfielders in the league and yet he holds a record PL fee. Harry Maguire, in the Top 10. Again, need I say anymore...

All this stuff is a complete load of bollocks now typified by bang average footballers commanding £50m plus transfer fees. 

Just look at the combined fee's spent on Lukaku over the years and in 30/40 years time, he's never going to be remembered as a great of the game 

[Honey Honey]

What I'm getting from this is that anyone over £70m is probably going to be shite and look £30m tops.

[OrangeKhrush]

football fees are now reaching unsustainable levels where clubs are skulping.  this can be remedied by imposing maximum transfer cap eg: 100m maximum spending per club per season.  it is improbable that clubs will blow the whole budget on one player and will look elsewhere for realistic deals.

the other is imposing a arbitration body to objectively impose a fair value and stop the over inflated skulping.

[Dr. Gonzo]

9 hours ago, OrangeKhrush said:

the other is imposing a arbitration body to objectively impose a fair value and stop the over inflated skulping.

How though? That's impossible isn't it. Clubs are going to value players differently based on circumstances.

[Happy Blue]

On 07/07/2023 at 18:26, Dr. Gonzo said:

How though? That's impossible isn't it. Clubs are going to value players differently based on circumstances.

I agree, think the fee's are more what a player is worth to that club than the actual value of the player so to take a smaller teams captain is a big deal to them so a huge fee helps them buy a decent replacement 

[OrangeKhrush]

On 08/07/2023 at 03:34, Happy Blue said:

I agree, think the fee's are more what a player is worth to that club than the actual value of the player so to take a smaller teams captain is a big deal to them so a huge fee helps them buy a decent replacement 

I tend to disagree on any subjective criterion due to it being obscured by perceived biases.  Objective criterion are used because they normalise value based on observed value.

normalizing a standard helps small clubs by preventing transfer fees becoming unsustainable.  these smaller clubs get big transfers then the clubs they go to looking for replacements milk them back so it becomes do eat dog as the sole obsession is making money.

[Dr. Gonzo]

On 09/07/2023 at 03:09, OrangeKhrush said:

I tend to disagree on any subjective criterion due to it being obscured by perceived biases.  Objective criterion are used because they normalise value based on observed value.

normalizing a standard helps small clubs by preventing transfer fees becoming unsustainable.  these smaller clubs get big transfers then the clubs they go to looking for replacements milk them back so it becomes do eat dog as the sole obsession is making money.

How do you normalise values without uniform standards of basically every aspect of everything in football worldwide?

Sometimes a player is just going to be worth more to the club they’re at than a buying club values them. Clubs needing a certain type of player are going to value those players more than other clubs with the different needs, even if they’re both interested in the same player. Clubs in different leagues might value players completely differently, Bayern probably think £100m for Kane is absurd, whereas Spurs are within their rights to value him higher than that.

You’d need uniform wage budgets, uniform transfer caps, uniform league revenue… basically complete uniformity to have a standardised “objective” valuation of players to stop the richest clubs from exploiting that.

Imo the “cleanest” way to have some sort of standardisation of player values is mandatory release clauses for every player based off some calculation using a players wages. And even then I’m not sure that’s protecting anyone other than players wanting moves away and very rich clubs.

[6666]

On 03/07/2023 at 20:44, Dr. Gonzo said:

De Gea's the most shocking one to me, tbh. Not that he's a bad keeper or anything - but in modern football you need to be more than just a good shot stopper. But being highest paid keeper in the world when he's been on the decline for many seasons now, tbh, is kind of mental.

He was the only good thing at Man Utd for years. They knew they would've been fucked without him and he used that. Can easily see how Man Utd got themselves in that situation.