Top 20 Most Expensive Transfer Fees Of All Time

Whilst South Africa is a lucrative football nation, the following is a list of Top 20 Most Expensive Transfer Fees Of All Time , which details the 20 highest transfer fees ever paid for players as of the end of the winter transfer window of 2016 leaves us really at the bottom of the food chain.

The list contains seven transfers which broke the world transfer record: those of Gareth Bale, Cristiano Ronaldo, Zinedine Zidane, Luís Figo, Hernán Crespo, Christian Vieri and Denílson, with the former five signing for Spanish clubs and the latter two signing for Italian clubs.

Spanish team Real Madrid have held the record for purchasing the most expensive player since 2000, when Luís Figo made a controversial £37 million move from Barcelona. Since then, the only player purchases to break the record have been Zinedine Zidane in 2001, when he was signed for £46 million from Juventus, the £80 million transfer of Cristiano Ronaldo from Manchester United in 2009,[1] and Gareth Bale from Tottenham Hotspur in 2013.
Highest fees

As of 3 February 2016; after the winter 2016 transfer window.

Rank	Player	From	To	Fee (M £)	Fee (M €)	Year
1	Gareth Bale	Tottenham Hotspur	Real Madrid	£85	€100.8	2013
2	Cristiano Ronaldo	Manchester United	Real Madrid	£80	€94	2009
3	Neymar	Santos	Barcelona	£71.5	€86.2	2013
4	Luis Suárez	Liverpool	Barcelona	£65	€81.7	2014
5	Ángel Di María	Real Madrid	Manchester United	£59.7	€75	2014
6	Kevin De Bruyne	Wolfsburg	Manchester City	£55	€70	2015
7	James Rodríguez	AS Monaco	Real Madrid	£71	€79.5	2014
8	Zinedine Zidane	Juventus	Real Madrid	£59.2	€75	2001
9	Raheem Sterling	Liverpool	Manchester City	£49	€64	2015
10	Zlatan Ibrahimović	Inter	Barcelona	£59	€69	2009

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