Tuesday, January 11, 2011

England: Record Signings from Foreign Leagues

The most expensive player transfers to England from a variety of leagues around the world.  Numbers are rounded up or down to the nearest million.

  $    -   €    -    £  -   Player (League)
59m - 46m - 38m - Andriy Shevchenko (Italy)
56m - 43m - 36m - Robinho (Spain)
49m - 38m - 32m - Michael Essien (France)
41m - 32m - 27m - Anderson (Portugal)
40m - 31m - 26m - Edin Dzeko (Germany)

37m - 29m - 24m - Ruud van Nistelrooy (Netherlands)
31m - 24m - 20m - Jô (Russia)
31m - 24m - 20m - John Obi Mikel (Norway)
27m - 21m - 17m - Luka Modric (Croatia)
25m - 19m - 16m - Marouane Fellaini (Belgium)
23m - 18m - 15m - Sergiy Rebrov (Ukraine)

19m - 15m - 12m - Javier Mascherano (Brazil)
18m - 14m - 12m - Juan Pablo Angel (Argentina)
18m - 14m - 12m - Craig Gordon (Scotland)
16m - 12m - 10m - Nicolas Anelka (Turkey)

12m - 9m - 7m - Daniel Agger (Denmark)
10m - 8m - 7m - Michael Chopra (Wales)
10m - 8m - 7m - Javier Hernández "Chicharito" (Mexico)

9m - 7m - 6m - Felipe Caicedo (Switzerland)
9m - 7m - 6m - Milan Baros (Czech Republic)
9m - 7m - 6m - Zoran Tosic (Serbia)
9m - 7m - 6m - Szilard Nemeth (Slovakia)

6m - 5m - 4m - Freddie Ljungberg (Sweden)
6m - 5m - 4m - Radostin Kishishev (Bulgaria)

5m - 4m - 3m - Stern John (USA)
5m - 4m - 3m - Lukasz Fabianski (Poland)
5m - 4m - 3m - Georgi Kinkladze (Georgia)
5m - 4m - 3m - Ilie Dumitrescu (Romania)

4m - 3m - 2m - Sotirios Kyrgiakos (Greece)
4m - 3m - 2m - Krisztian Nemeth (Hungary)
4m - 3m - 2m - Somen Tchoyi (Austria)
4m - 3m - 2m - Zhi Zheng and Jihai Sun (China)
4m - 3m - 2m - Yoshikatsu Kawaguchi (Japan)
4m - 3m - 2m - Chung-Yong Lee (South Korea)
4m - 3m - 2m - Andrejs Rubins (Latvia)
4m - 3m - 2m - Diego Gavilan (Paraguay)

3m - 2m - 2m - Jhon Viafara (Colombia)
3m - 2m - 2m - Amr Zaki (Egypt)
3m - 2m - 2m - Mbulelo Mabizela (South Africa)
3m - 2m - 2m - John Pantsil and Walid Badir (Israel)

1m - 1m - 1m - Zeljko Kalac (Australia)
1m - 1m - 1m - Wilson Palacios (Honduras)


Source: Transfermarkt.co.uk
Current exchange rates from xe.com

2 comments:

  1. Wow. Some of the boys at the top of the list faid big time in the Prem, Rebrov,Jo,Shevchenko and um Graig Gordon??? (was Keane mad?), whereas there are some bargains and great buys at the bottom, Palacios, Lee, Kinkladze, and Ljungberg. But you are missing some great ones -
    Berger £3M,
    Ronaldo 12M,
    Henry 11M,
    Zola 4M,
    Bergkamp 7M.
    And some bad ones -
    Morientes 7M
    Luque 9M
    Mutu 16M
    Who's going to be the next flop? Dzeko?

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  2. kolarov cost a fair amount..

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