While he successfully passed his medical examination and should be presented with great fanfare this Wednesday by his new Saudi club, Neymar marks the transfer market again at least. Already holder of the record for the most expensive transfer in the history of football, when Paris Saint-Germain dropped the 222 million euros from its release clause at FC Barcelona, the Brazilian winger will very quickly also become the player the most expensive in history… cumulatively.
If it is not yet official, the number 10 of PSG is preparing to join the Saudi club Al-Hilal for an estimated amount of 90 million euros. If we add this to the amounts (aggregated by the specialized site Transfer market via SportingPedia), of his transfers from Barça to PSG in 2017 (€222m) and from Santos to Barcelona in 2013 (€88m), we therefore reach the crazy amount of… 400 million euros in three movements, for an average of €133.3 million per transfer.
Note however, even if this does not call into question his hegemony in this transfer ranking, that the official amount of Neymar’s transfer to Barça from Santos has been subject to debate. He was even put on trial. Officially announced as encrypted at 57 million euros by Barça, it had been estimated at at least 83 million euros by the Spanish justice.
5 players passed by the PSG in the top 10
Behind Neymar in this ranking, we find other regulars of big moves. Romelu Lukaku, for example, in second place, has accumulated 333.36 million euros in transfer fees in total in his career. The Belgian striker, who is also looking for a new club this summer, has been transferred seven times, including three times (to Manchester in 2017, Inter in 2019 and Chelsea in 2021) for more than 70 million euros. euros.
Without too much surprise, several players passed by PSG appear in this classification. The latest arrival, Ousmane Dembélé (3 transfers, 220 million euros in total), sits in 4th place between Cristiano Ronaldo (3rd, 4 transfers, 247M€) and Alvaro Morata (5th, 6 transfers, 189M€) .
Kylian Mbappé is the only player to appear in this ranking counting… only one transfer, that of AS Monaco to PSG (7th, 180M€). In the meantime, this is in any case what Paris Saint-Germain hopes, that another major transfer will propel him to the top of this ranking. Mbappé is ahead of Griezmann, bought 30 M€ by Atlético de Madrid in 2014 then 120 M€ by Barça in 2019.
Angel Di Maria (9th, 4 transfers, €179m) and the very young retiree Zlatan Ibrahimović (10th, 7 transfers, €169m) complete the top 10.
2023-08-15 22:54:58
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