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The 20 most expensive transfers in football history
The twenty largest transfer fees ever recorded, with the player, both clubs and the year, and what the shape of that list reveals about the modern market.
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The largest fees, the records they set and the shape of the market they reveal.
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Neymar to PSG: how the world transfer record was set
The 222 million euro move from Barcelona to Paris Saint-Germain in 2017 reset the market, and no fee has matched it since. Here is how it happened.
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Record transfer fees by position: keepers to strikers
The largest fee ever paid for a goalkeeper, a defender, a midfielder and a forward, and how the four positional records compare with one another.
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From £100 to £200m: how the world transfer record grew
How the world transfer record rose from a hundred pounds in the 1890s to Neymar's two hundred million in 2017, and which eras shaped each stage of the climb.
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The women's world record transfer and how it grows
How the women's transfer record has risen in recent seasons and how it compares with the men's market, in fee levels and in market structure.
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Paying for managers: the coaching transfer market today
Clubs pay compensation to sign managers under contract, and the largest such payments rival mid-sized player transfers. Here is how the coaching market works.
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The clubs that have broken the world transfer record
Which clubs have held the world transfer record, how often each of them broke it, and what the record-breaking buyers across every era had in common.
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Why transfer fees keep rising: the economics of scale
Transfer fee inflation is driven by growing revenue, a fixed supply of elite players and the way clubs amortise large fees across the length of a contract.
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Record fees for teenagers: the youngest big-money deals
The largest fees ever paid for teenage players, why clubs gamble on youth, and how the risk of a teenage signing differs from a peak-age transfer.
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The rise of the €80m defender: record fees at the back
Defenders now change clubs for fees that once bought strikers. Here is why the defender record has risen and how far it still trails the forwards.
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