21st Century Football Transfer Fee Statistics

In the summer window of every offseason, it is actually the busiest moment for major clubs in the transfer market. After all, in order to improve the strength of the lineup, it is naturally necessary to spend a lot of money to attract stars and continuously build a lineup.

Recently, football media SCORE 90 has counted the ranking of transfer fees in the 5 stages from the 21st century to the present. Among them, Paris spent 220 million euros to introduce Neymar in 2017, which is still difficult to surpass in the short term.

But if we talk about the cost-effectiveness of the transfer and the results brought by the new players to the team, perhaps Real Madrid, which is the world's number one giant, has something to say.

SCORE 90. 21st Century World Football Transfer Fee Inventory

1, Ronaldo, joined Real Madrid from Manchester United in 2009, 94 million euros

2, Zidane, joined Real Madrid from Juventus in 2001, 78 million euros

3, Kaka, joined Real Madrid from AC Milan in 2009, 67 million euros

4, Figo, joined Real Madrid from Barcelona in 2000, 60 million euros

5, G Respo joined Lazio from Parma in 2000, with 57 million euros in the first decade of the 21st century. In fact, when looking back on the transfer costs, it is not difficult to find that in the world football at that time, La Liga and Serie A were still the biggest highlights - and among them, La Liga's highlights mainly come from the Galaxy battleship created by Florentino and Real Madrid; while Serie A is full of stars - after all, players such as Zidane and Crespo all come from the Apennines.

But perhaps it is important to mention that Real Madrid's strategy is indeed ahead of the times, because they have confirmed an eternal truth--excessive things are actually not a problem except expensive things!

Among them, Ronaldo must be the best signing in Real Madrid's history - although it was indeed amazing at 94 million euros at that time, if we look at the results, I am afraid that Manchester United will regret not adding additional terms and second-transfer share.

1. Pogba, joined Manchester United from Juventus in 2016, 105 million euros, 105 million euros, 101 million euros, 3, Higuain, joined Juventus from Naples in 2016, 90 million euros, 4, Neymar, joined Barcelona from Santos in 2013, 88 million euros, 5, Suarez, joined Barcelona from Liverpool in 2014, 82 million euros, 82 million euros, 82 million euros, 13, and 13, and 13, and 13, and 13, and 13, and 13, and 13, and 13, and 13, and 13, and 13, and 13, and 13, and 13, and 13, and 13, and 13, and 13, and 13, and 13, and 13, and 13, and 13, and 13, and 13, and 13, and 13, and 13, and 13, were the first player in history to have a transfer fee exceeding 130 million euros. And that is, since the second decade of the 21st century, the transfer fee has reached the critical point of 100 million yuan - whether it is Higuain or Neymar afterwards, it is actually very close to the 100 million yuan mark.

Until Manchester United took out 105 million euros for Pogba, the world football world had actually fallen into a period of serious premium at that time - think about Martial in the summer of 2015. He was still unknown at the age of 19, but the Red Devils made a huge investment of 60 million euros.

As expected, after being laid out by teams such as Manchester United, the next world football has indeed entered a crazy era!

1. Neymar joined Paris from Barcelona in 2017, 222 million euros

2. Mbappe was bought out by Paris from Monaco in 2018, 180 million euros

3. Coutinho joined Barcelona from Liverpool in 2018, 135 million euros

4. Dembele, joined Barcelona from Dortmund in 2017, 135 million euros

5. Felix, joined Atletico Madrid from Benfica in 2019, 127 million euros

2017-2021, the five years were undoubtedly the craziest period in the transfer window in the world football world, and the initiator must be the only 222 million euros

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From then on, Paris's heroic spirit made Barcelona know that the liquidated damages needed to be raised to at least 500 million euros or even 1 billion euros, because the European football world at that time had indeed not seen the horror of oil capital. But if Paris is not short of money, Barcelona, which was caught off guard by Paris, later became a typical representative of stupid people and a lot of money.

Because of Neymar's departure, everyone knows that Barcelona is going to sign, so Dortmund makes almost a net profit of 100 million from Dembele (Dotter spent 35 million euros to introduce Dembele from Rennes in 2016). What's even more annoying is Coutinho. He even paid for his own money in order to join Barcelona. He did not expect that his career at Camp Nou was not smooth, but instead became a Liverpool celebrity (with his funds, he also laid a solid foundation for Liverpool's decision to introduce Van Dijk and Alisson later).

As for Felix, it can only be said that Simeone himself misunderstood. From then on, the conclusion that "Portuguese is more productive than the product, and there are many parallel products" has also begun to spread to this day!

1. Enzo, joined Chelsea from Benfica in 2023, 121 million euros

2. Gallish, joined Manchester City from Villa in 2021, 118 million euros

3. Rice, joined the Gunners from West Ham in 2023, 117 million euros

4. Kesedo, joined Chelsea from Brighton in 2023, 116 million euros

5. Lukaku, joined Chelsea from Inter Milan in 2021, 113 million euros

From 2022, Chelsea was undoubtedly the focus of world football at that time due to the impact of the 2021 Champions League championship and the subsequent international events.. Of course, what is even more shocking is the shopping craze that Chelsea started since then - in the summer window of 2022, the team introduced 9 people and transferred up to 21 people; in the winter window of 2023, 8 people were introduced and 4 people left; in the summer window of 2023, 12 people were introduced and 27 people left again; in the summer window of 2024, 12 people were introduced and 24 people left.

It can only be said that after the arrival of Berley, everyone did see a completely different football business strategy and ideas.

Of course, since they were still in the end of that special period, the financial resources of the larger wealthy families had not yet been fully restored. And the Premier League naturally dominated the transfer market and became the biggest winner.

Summer Window 2025

1, Werz, joined Liverpool from a pharmaceutical factory in 2025, 125 million euros, 125 million euros, 125 million euros, 2025, 90 million euros, 90 million euros, 3, Mbeumo, joined Manchester United from Brentford in 2025, 75 million euros,}

4. Cunha, joined Manchester United from Wolves in 2025, 74 million euros

5, Subimedi, joined the Gunners from Real Sociedad in 2025, and 70 million euros

The era of Premier League dominating the transfer market is still continuing in 2025, but this year's protagonist has been replaced by someone who no one expected - "Spring and Autumn Overlords", Liverpool!

And, it is no exaggeration to say that Liverpool's surprise this year must be far from over - Isaac, Guy! If these two people will eventually join Liverpool, Fenway Group's transfer investment this summer will inevitably reach 500 million euros!

Faced with this situation, perhaps we can imagine Klopp's inner monologue at this time, "If Fenway had been so devoted back then, there would be another guaranteed Premier League and Champions League! But after I left, you were so willing to invest for the team. I was really speechless, and I would like to give you a signature farmer three punch in person."