After the Transfer of Neymar to Paris Saint, the records of expensive transfers are broken. Neymar was transferred to Paris Saint Germain for record $222 Million and it was more than double of Paul Pogba Transfer to Manchester United worth £89 million in 2016. The transfer of Neymar has helped the godfathers to forget the previous transfers as he has set the new trend. Now let’s take a look at the most expensive football transfers of all times in history of football.
Top 30 Most Expensive Football Transfers (All Times)
Although the list of most expensive transfers is too long, but we would mention a few (30) of them. The 9 expensive transfers happened in 2013 only, while rest of the expensive transfers’ list also contains the event happened after 2013. Gareth Bale was bought by Real Madrid in 85 million in 2013 which overtook Ronaldo’ team followed by Pogba transfer cost 89 million. The collected details are mentioned below in the table.
These sort of expensive purchase often work for the teams as per the history is witnessed. Just for example, Real Madrdi paid 94 million euros back in 2009 in buying Cristiano Ronaldo and he proved this deal perfectly right. In the list of most expensive transfers, Gareth Bale stands at 3rd position. Gareth was bought by Real Madrid from Tottenham for 100 million Euros.
| NO# | PLAYER | TRANSFER | FEE |
| 1 | Neymar (2017) | FC Barcelona to PSG | £198m |
| 2 | Paul Pogba (2016) | Juventus to Manchester United | £89m |
| 3 | Ousmane Dembélé (2017) | Borussia Dortmund to Barcelona | £97m |
| 4 | Gareth Bale (2013) | Totteham to Real Madrid | £85.3m |
| 5 | Cristiano Ronaldo (2009) | Man Utd to Real Madrid | £83.7m |
| 6 | Gonzalo Higuain (2016) | Napoli to Juventus | £75.3m |
| 7 | Romelu Lukaku (2017) | Everton to Manchester United | £75.3m |
| 8 | Luis Suarez (2014) | Liverpool to Barcelona | £75m |
| 9 | Neymar (2013) | Santos to Barcelona | £71.5m |
| 10 | Alvaro Morata (2017) | Real Madrid vs Chelsea | £70.9m |
| 11 | James Rodriguez (2014) | Monaco to Real Madrid | £63m |
| 12 | Oscar (2017) | Chelsea to Shanghai SPIG | £60m |
| 13 | Zlatan Ibrahimovic (2009) | Inter Milan to Barcelona | £59m (40m+Eto’o) |
| 14 | Angel Di Maria (2014) | Real Madrid to Man Utd | £59.7m |
| 15 | Kaka (2009) | AC Milan to Real Madrid | £56m |
| 16 | Kevin De Bruyn (2015) | Wolfsburg to Manchester City | £55m |
| 17 | Edinson Cavani (2013) | Napoli to PSG | £55m |
| 18 | Raheem Sterling (2015) | Liverpool vs Manchester City | £55.2 |
| 19 | Benjamin Mendy (2017) | Liverpool vs Manchester City | £55.2 |
| 20 | Kyle Walker (2017) | Tottenham to Manchester City | £50m |
| 21 | Angle Di Maria (2015) | Manchester United to PSG | £49.7 |
| 22 | Rademal Falcao (2013) | Atletico Madrid to Monaco | £51m |
| 23 | John Stone (2016) | Everton to Manchester City | £50m |
| 24 | David Luis (2014) | Chelsea to PSG | £50m |
| 25 | Fernando Torres (2011) | Liverpool to Chelsea | £50m |
| 26 | Carlos Tevez (2009) | To Man City | £47m |
| 27 | Alexandre Lacazette (2017) | Lyon to Arsenal | £46.5m |
| 28 | Zinedine Zidane (2001) | Juventus to Real Madrid | £46m |
| 29 | Hulk (2016) | Zenit to Shanghai SIPG | £46.4 |
| 30 | Bernardo Silva (2017) | AS Monaco to Manchester City | £43m |
| 31 | Mesut Özil (2013) | Real Madrid to Arsenal | £42.4m |
| 32 | Alex Teixeira (2016) | Shakhtar Donetsk to Jiangsu Suning | £39.3 |
| 33 | James Rodríguez (2013) | FC Porto to AS Monaco | £38.5 |
| 34 | Juan Mata (2014) | Chelsea to Manchester United | £37.1m |
| 35 | Luis Figo (2000) | Barcelona to Real Madrid | £37m |
| 36 | Anthony Martial (2015) | Monaco to Manchester United | £36m |
| 37 | Hernán Crespo (2000) | Parma to Lazio | £35.5m |
Gonzalo Higuan from Napoli to Juventus is also in the list, but stands at 5th position. He was bought by Juventus from Napoli for 90 Million Euros back in 2016, but this deal was the most expensive deal in 2016 year only.
Note: Neymar’ transfer from Barcelona to Paris Saint Germain is expensive on technical grounds because the transfer fee made this deal most expensive instead the gross price. Neymar is still most expensive football player transfer leading Paul Pogba who was transfered to Manchester United for 89 Million pounds which was a record still back at then.
