Monday, March 15, 2010

Top 10 Most Expensive Transfers In Soccer History

It's almost hard to imagine how much money teams like Real Madrid or Chelsea FC are willing to spend in order to win the Champions League, which is the highest achievement a soccer club can earn.
Real Madrid set the world record in 2008 when they paid the record breaking transfer fee of $131 million to Manchaster United. This made Christiano Ronaldo (picture) the most expensive soccer player to date.
Here are the top ten most expensive transfers:
1.Christiano Ronaldo (Real Madrid, Spain) - $131 million
2.Kaka (Real Madrid, Spain) – $92 million
3.Zinedine Zidane (Real Madrid, Spain) - $64.6 million
4.Andriy Shevchenko (Chelsea FC, England) - $57.6
5.Robinho (Manchester City, England) -56.9 million
6.Luis Figo (Real Madrid, Spain) - $55.6
7.Dimitar Berbatov (Manchester United, England) - $55.3 million
8.Hernan Crespo (Lazio Roma, Italy) - $50.9 million
9.Christian Vieri (Inter Milan, Italy) - $49.3
10.Karim Benzema (Real Madrid, Spain) - $49.1 million

Source: http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/multimedia/photo_gallery/0907/soccer.transfers/content.1.html

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  1. AmarpritMarch 16, 2010 at 12:04 PM

    Great point on how much a transfer fee may be for any given player. It is interesting to note here that these transfer fees continue to rise for players like Robinho and Ronaldo since the average career for a football player is about ten years in top division. This shows the spread of talent and business endorsements in the world through the players as they transfer from one countries league to another. For example, the well known David Beckham went from Manchester United to Real Madrid to Los Angeles Galaxy to Milan.

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