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Sir Les Ferdinand, apparently.
The team behind the Totally Money website have taken the average transfer values of players since the Premier League began in 1992 and compared the increase in transfer costs over time to calculate 'football player inflation'.
And it transpires that the £6.3m we spent on Les in 1997 would now be the equivalent of £64.3m and, when compared to all other purchases we've made over the years, our highest ever transfer fee.
The link to the website follows and you can filter by club to see all our sales and purchases, and sort by 'today's money' to find the most expensive purchases. As lists go, though, it's not for the faint-hearted. To buy the talent of Darren Bent today would set you back nigh on £60m, while it transpires that our most expensive defender ever was Pascal Chimbonda and that we spent more on Ben Thatcher than Lucas Moura.
https://www.totallymoney.com/content/transfer-index/
I find it strange that we've not exceeded the Ferdinand fee over the past twenty years, but then Sir Les always did know how to stay up above other players for an inordinately long time, so, in that way, it's rather fitting.
The team behind the Totally Money website have taken the average transfer values of players since the Premier League began in 1992 and compared the increase in transfer costs over time to calculate 'football player inflation'.
And it transpires that the £6.3m we spent on Les in 1997 would now be the equivalent of £64.3m and, when compared to all other purchases we've made over the years, our highest ever transfer fee.
The link to the website follows and you can filter by club to see all our sales and purchases, and sort by 'today's money' to find the most expensive purchases. As lists go, though, it's not for the faint-hearted. To buy the talent of Darren Bent today would set you back nigh on £60m, while it transpires that our most expensive defender ever was Pascal Chimbonda and that we spent more on Ben Thatcher than Lucas Moura.
https://www.totallymoney.com/content/transfer-index/
I find it strange that we've not exceeded the Ferdinand fee over the past twenty years, but then Sir Les always did know how to stay up above other players for an inordinately long time, so, in that way, it's rather fitting.