At least in some ways the Brazilian beat Messi and Ronaldo
Al Hilalaccording to Transfermarkt, will pay PSG 90 million euros for the transfer of the Brazilian forward Neymar, which allows the striker to enter the top 15 most expensive transfers in the history of world football. However, Neymar did not beat his previous record – 222 million euros for moving to PSG from Barcelona. However, the transfer to Al Hilal allowed the Brazilian to become the best in the world in terms of total transfer value.
So, according to the data of the same Transfermarkt, Neymar brought a total of 400 million euros to his clubs. As mentioned above, the Brazilian brought 312 million euros to Santos (88 million – transfer to Barcelona) and Barcelona. Now 100 million – PSG. In second place in terms of total transfer value is the Belgian forward of Chelsea, Romelu Lukaku. The striker changed five clubs during his career – Anderlecht, Chelsea, Everton, Manchester United and Inter, played on loan at another (West Bromwich) – and brought his teams a total of 333 million euros. The average cost of Lukaku is 47.6 million euros.
In third place in terms of total transfer value is Cristiano Ronaldo, who brought 4 clubs 247 million euros. The top 5 also includes Ousmane Dembele (220 million euros) and Kylian Mbappe (180 million euros).
It is noteworthy that it is Mbappe who holds the palm in terms of the average transfer cost. Kylian has only moved to one club so far, but PSG paid Monaco 180 million euros for his transfer. Neymar’s average transfer fee is over 133 million euros. In third place is Dembele with an average transfer fee of 73.3 million. Ronaldo’s figure is 61.75 million.
Note that the top 10 players with the highest total transfer value included Philippe Coutinho and Antoine Griezmann.
Source: Sportarena
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