Revealed: Every Premier League club's biggest transfer - in today's money
Crazy money. That’s where we are with the transfer market today.
The window slammed/quietly shut early in August, with several clubs in the top flight splashing the cash in a bid to bolster their club’s fortunes.
For some it has worked. For others, business has not proved so fruitful just yet.
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And while there are always a bundle of laughs from the transfer period – just think of your annual reminder that Michael Owen is still Newcastle’s record signing – there is now a new way of laughing and/or crying at your own/other teams.
Thanks to a new tool from TotallyMoney, there is a way of measuring traditional transfer fees in today’s money.
The company has taken previous transfer fees from Transfermarkt.com and converted them. And some of the are *truly* sickening.
So, we’ve done some digging and found the most expensive signing per club after the conversion – and you’d be surprised what your club’s new record signing is.
Find out below.
SPOILER ALERT: Record signings from this summer will generally remain the top transfer fee.
AFC Bournemouth
Name: Jefferson Lerma
Age: 23
Season: 2018-19
Original fee: £24,900,000
New fee: £23,990,000
Arsenal
Name: Dennis Bergkamp
Age: 26
Season: 1995-96
Original fee: £7,500,000
New fee: £71,300,000
Brighton
Name: Alireza Jahanbakhsh
Age: 24
Season: 2018-19
Original fee: £16,900,000
New fee: £16,680,000
Burnley
Name: Robbie Brady
Age: 25
Season: 2016-17
Original fee: £12,400,000
New fee: £16,680,000
Cardiff
Name: Gary Medel
Age: 26
Season: 2013-14
Original fee: £11,100,000
New fee: £19,380,000
Chelsea
Name: Andriy Shevchenko
Age: 29
Season: 2006-07
Original fee: £29,400,000
New fee: £144,400,000
Crystal Palace
Name: Christian Benteke
Age: 25
Season: 2016-17
Original fee: £25,600,000
New fee: £34,000,000
Everton
Name: Duncan Ferguson
Age: 23
Season: 1994-95
Original fee: £4,070,000
New fee: £58,200,000
Fulham
Name: Steve Marlet
Age: 27
Season: 2001-02
Original fee: £10,900,000
New fee: £46,200,000
Huddersfield
Name: Terence Kongolo
Age: 24
Season: 2018-19
Original fee: £17,800,000
New fee: £17,510,000
Leicester
Name: Islam Slimani
Age: 28
Season: 2016-17
Original fee: £25,000,000
New fee: £33,400,000
Liverpool
Name: Fernando Torres
Age: 23
Season: 2007-08
Original fee: £25,800,000
New fee: £90,700,000
Fernando Torres is Liverpool’s ‘record’ signing
Manchester City
Name: Sergio Aguero
Age: 23
Season: 2011-12
Original fee: £35,000,000
New fee: £99,100,000
Manchester United
Name: Rio Ferdinand
Age: 23
Season: 2002-03
Original fee: £29,000,000
New fee: £121,700,000
Newcastle
Name: Alan Shearer
Age: 25
Season: 1996-97
Original fee: £15,000,000
New fee: £125,100,000
Southampton
Name: Gaston Ramirez
Age: 21
Season: 2012-13
Original fee: £12,300,000
New fee: £30,300,000
Tottenham
Name: Les Ferdinand
Age: 30
Season: 1997-98
Original fee: £6,300,000
New fee: £64,300,000
Watford
Name: Isaac Success
Age: 20
Season: 2016-17
Original fee: £12,300,000
New fee: £16,330,000
West Ham
Name: Javier Mascherano
Age: 22
Season: 2006-07
Original fee: £9,900,000
New fee: £46,800,000
Wolves
Name: Roger Johnson
Age: 28
Season: 2011-12
Original fee: £7,000,000
New fee: £19,290,000
