How much would the Premier League’s biggest transfers cost today?

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Jack Grealish is the current most expensive incoming transfer in Premier League history. But would it still be if all of the transfers in history were adjusted for inflation? And football-inflation at that?
Where would Rio Ferdinand’s move from Leeds to Manchester United rank, where would Tim Flowers to Blackburn rank? And which move is still just as savvy today?
Seb Stafford-Bloor explains (with the help of Kieran Maguire and Jason Laws) illustrated by Philippe Fenner.
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  • @thejungwookim
    @thejungwookim2 жыл бұрын

    There's a reason it took so long to beat Alan Shearer's newcastle record - it was an insane transfer value at the time and was for years, even into the Mike Ashley era.

  • @cjc872

    @cjc872

    2 жыл бұрын

    Worth every penny.

  • @funkinc6992

    @funkinc6992

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@cjc872 was going to say its was still a bargain for them. I'm not a newcastle fan but I really admired shearer's knack for getting double figures EVERY SEASON late into his 30's in a newcastle team that lacked creativity.

  • @toonarmy8524

    @toonarmy8524

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@funkinc6992 the only time he didnt was when he was sidelined for 18 months with ligament damage.

  • @jackbland3406

    @jackbland3406

    2 жыл бұрын

    And now NUFC will break the record again in the next few years 😂

  • @GuinessOriginal

    @GuinessOriginal

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@jackbland3406 and it’ll get them exactly the same, imagine being proud of Islamic extremist terrorist sponsors that behead journalists and promote shariah law and subjugate women

  • @SamMartinPeakPerformance
    @SamMartinPeakPerformance2 жыл бұрын

    I remember when Torres went to Chelsea for £50m and absolutely losing my mind. Bizarre how that's pretty much chump change now 🤷🏼‍♂️

  • @CS-ft6by

    @CS-ft6by

    2 жыл бұрын

    Crazy huh? I was still in high school when that happened. Most defenders sell for more than that now

  • @Colby_0-3_IRL_and_title_fights

    @Colby_0-3_IRL_and_title_fights

    2 жыл бұрын

    And to be be fair Jack Grealish at City has been twice as good as Torres at Chelsea

  • @SamMartinPeakPerformance

    @SamMartinPeakPerformance

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@Colby_0-3_IRL_and_title_fights twice as disappointing 😅

  • @mike04574

    @mike04574

    2 жыл бұрын

    I was 7 at the time. Remembered it was a big deal

  • @imconfused1237

    @imconfused1237

    2 жыл бұрын

    Chump change? No, £50m isn’t chump change.

  • @iwantgoals1566
    @iwantgoals15662 жыл бұрын

    Great vid, but I would love to see one about players values in other European leagues. Like how much would legends like R9, Kaka, Totti, Ronaldinho, Pirlo etc cost in todays money.

  • @riteshmarwah1988

    @riteshmarwah1988

    2 жыл бұрын

    Get this comment higher

  • @JBMNM

    @JBMNM

    2 жыл бұрын

    Totti would be €0 as he never left Roma.

  • @iwantgoals1566

    @iwantgoals1566

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@JBMNM Doesn't mean he didn't have a transfer value.

  • @JBMNM

    @JBMNM

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@iwantgoals1566 for the purposes of this video, it really does.

  • @Internazionale2010

    @Internazionale2010

    2 жыл бұрын

    Crespo record breaking move to lazio would be huge in todays money

  • @foolishus
    @foolishus2 жыл бұрын

    The title had me thinking this was about transfers into and out of PL teams... realized halfway through Ronaldo, Bale, etc. would not be on the list because they were signings away from the PL. Great video though, I am glad someone finally took the time to adjust the rankings (even if it's only half of them).

  • @tylen217

    @tylen217

    2 жыл бұрын

    ye i thought that too, but in terms of inflation ronaldo would have been worth £195 million in today's market

  • @tenzingmingmar1424

    @tenzingmingmar1424

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@tylen217 Is that number calculated using regular financial inflation or the “football inflation” that this video is all about?

  • @tylen217

    @tylen217

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@tenzingmingmar1424 nah football inflation

  • @tylen217

    @tylen217

    2 жыл бұрын

    I'd still be asking for way more then 200 tho,

  • @EMETRL

    @EMETRL

    2 жыл бұрын

    I think this was the only option since the calculator was based on how money was valued in England (or the UK) whereas the money paid by a spanish club would have to be looked at through the lens of Spanish valuations of money over the years. You can't just apply one calculator everywhere because the economic balances between countries change all the time.

  • @deenuk125
    @deenuk1252 жыл бұрын

    Shows the financial power United had on the premier League for so many years They had the most expensive squad of all time by these metrics

  • @jayansaini7093

    @jayansaini7093

    2 жыл бұрын

    And yet the fans act like ferghie built these teams off pennies from the streets

  • @adamp2426

    @adamp2426

    2 жыл бұрын

    These transfers were for the 3rd team Ferguson created. After nearly 5yrs of success. Self generated money as opposed to billionaire sugar daddies.

  • @smoothcheeky8910

    @smoothcheeky8910

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@jayansaini7093 yes united spent a lot if judged my inflation but what's the reason for football inflation? Oil clubs play a big part lol

  • @skrskrskrr5033

    @skrskrskrr5033

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@smoothcheeky8910 oil clubs? Ferguson broke transfer record 7 times. He contributed to inflation 7 times. Go check even today hoe many players does united have in top 10 most expensive pl players.

  • @smoothcheeky8910

    @smoothcheeky8910

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@skrskrskrr5033 United can afford to hang with the oil clubs and yes United broke records. However look at when transfer fees started to jump ridiculously. When oil money came along

  • @vikasnataraja7579
    @vikasnataraja75792 жыл бұрын

    Great video but not sure how Robinho would be City’s most expensive transfer even at £89m with Grealish at £100m 🤔

  • @Ashley-iz9iy

    @Ashley-iz9iy

    2 жыл бұрын

    probably outside of grealish

  • @cryptoviking8519

    @cryptoviking8519

    2 жыл бұрын

    Exactly! That is incorrect.

  • @jonnyanderson3042

    @jonnyanderson3042

    2 жыл бұрын

    sausage

  • @Murdocke89

    @Murdocke89

    2 жыл бұрын

    Said that lol

  • @AdamSmith75th

    @AdamSmith75th

    2 жыл бұрын

    Because that’s a modern day transfer, this is about the inflation of old ones 🤦‍♂️

  • @jelmervanriet790
    @jelmervanriet7902 жыл бұрын

    Really interesting but it would be nice to see how they calculated these fees

  • @yungtrashlord

    @yungtrashlord

    2 жыл бұрын

    so do i, mr/ms azumarill pfp

  • @Alphoric

    @Alphoric

    Жыл бұрын

    They just made most of it up it seems 😂

  • @attela3905

    @attela3905

    Жыл бұрын

    Nah, that would just spoil all the fun fun fun....

  • @Murdocke89
    @Murdocke892 жыл бұрын

    02:42 how can £88.5 million be Man City’s most expensive signing today when Grealish was £105.75 million half a year ago? Is this excluding Grealish?

  • @jonooflaherty8446

    @jonooflaherty8446

    2 жыл бұрын

    yeh was just about to comment that. think they just made a mistake tbf

  • @gingerwoods616

    @gingerwoods616

    2 жыл бұрын

    Think they also said that Les Ferdinand was Newcastle's most expensive signing?

  • @Centaur987

    @Centaur987

    2 жыл бұрын

    I think maybe they meant most expensive at the time?

  • @mike04574

    @mike04574

    2 жыл бұрын

    They mentioned grealish was the most expensive, not counting inflation

  • @imconfused1237

    @imconfused1237

    2 жыл бұрын

    “The worlds best journalists work at The Athletic” Every single one of their videos is littered with errors.

  • @gdogg3710
    @gdogg37102 жыл бұрын

    20-25 goals a season, season after season in a succession of underwhelming Newcastle teams and 30-35 goals per season (when injured a lot of the time) in a title challenging Blackburn team. Average that cost out over his peak ten years in the Premier League and it’s still cheap…

  • @imconfused1237

    @imconfused1237

    2 жыл бұрын

    Expensive when you consider he won f*ck all

  • @gdogg3710

    @gdogg3710

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@imconfused1237 you don’t win trophies on your own, no matter how many goals you score…

  • @imconfused1237

    @imconfused1237

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@gdogg3710 What’s the ROI then?

  • @gdogg3710

    @gdogg3710

    2 жыл бұрын

    ROI?

  • @NajashiProductions

    @NajashiProductions

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@gdogg3710 return on investment. What did you get out of the signing essentially

  • @giannis.ioannidis.1995
    @giannis.ioannidis.19952 жыл бұрын

    This exact same video for 90s Serie A transfers would be very very very interesting!

  • @Chez114
    @Chez1142 жыл бұрын

    When I saw Bergkamp for £10m in 1995, I had a feeling Shearer would be in the top 3 at £15m in 1996. Both worth every penny, although Bergkamp was an absolute steal

  • @boosty8895

    @boosty8895

    Жыл бұрын

    Arsenal paid £7.5m for Bergkamp not £10m

  • @chikish
    @chikish2 жыл бұрын

    It's cool to see the results, but it would be just as interesting if you explained how this inflation formula works or how it was developed.

  • @arnabthreethreesixfivethre4841
    @arnabthreethreesixfivethre48412 жыл бұрын

    ur guys made lukaku literally look like LALAKA!LOL

  • @Michaeltoo

    @Michaeltoo

    2 жыл бұрын

    "accident"

  • @eltonkonadu8287

    @eltonkonadu8287

    2 жыл бұрын

    ☠️☠️😭😭

  • @ezioauditore362

    @ezioauditore362

    2 жыл бұрын

    I thought that was kolo toure

  • @edwardthe_22
    @edwardthe_222 жыл бұрын

    I remember Andy Carroll signing for 32 million back in 2011 blew my head off. Would be pretty standard today.

  • @gingerwoods616
    @gingerwoods6162 жыл бұрын

    Be interesting to see how much the 'bargains' like Ronaldo to Utd would cost now.

  • @Ne0ge0X

    @Ne0ge0X

    2 жыл бұрын

    Using his own silly maths it must be roughly 300m.

  • @King_Cova

    @King_Cova

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@Ne0ge0X you ain't wrong, the math is all over the place to suit them when they please.

  • @supersnail5000

    @supersnail5000

    2 жыл бұрын

    As a rough comparison, Rooney was signed the season after and the inflation to today is about 300%. If we apply that same inflation (in actuality it should be a bit higher but close enough) to Ronaldo's 17mil signing, he would have cost 67mil in todays money. Absolutely a bargain if you consider that 6 years later, his transfer to real Madrid has been estimated elsewhere to be equivalent to over 200mil today.

  • @King_Cova

    @King_Cova

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@supersnail5000 Your maths is wrong aswell, if Rooney was purchased for 30 million and his value went up 300% then 100% is 60 million, 200% is 90million and 300% would be 120 million, also Ronaldo was purchased for 17X 3 is 54 million. Math

  • @supersnail5000

    @supersnail5000

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@King_Cova the 300% is the INCREASE but £118mil is approximately 4x or 400% of 30mil, 17*4 is approximately 68 (if you use the exact value instead of 4, you get 67). Essentially think of it as 17 mil + 17mil *3

  • @spooked2104
    @spooked21042 жыл бұрын

    "Fergie did it with less money" 🤨

  • @gecattaa

    @gecattaa

    2 жыл бұрын

    with 0 actually - net spend over the first decade of his reign

  • @spooked2104

    @spooked2104

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@gecattaa earned the most, dont bring net spend into this cus then city look wayyyyy better than you.

  • @Abdi-libaax

    @Abdi-libaax

    2 жыл бұрын

    If he was more ruthless the premier League would be like the German league. He won the league with kids from the youth system. Bought unknown players like ole. Won the league with welbeck Phil Jones Mike smalling cleverly. He could have bought Baggio/Del piero ect. So yes Ferguson liked to create stars and veron was the first known probably world class player he bought. And then RVP any other known WC player he bought??

  • @jayansaini7093

    @jayansaini7093

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@Abdi-libaax didn't he get van nistelrooy at the peak of his powers, took Rooney from Everton, rio from Leeds, Alan Smith from Leeds as well, cantona from Leeds, vidic from some random European club for a pretty penny, a young cr7 who wasn't cheap at the time, Phil Jones wasn't even cheap either, the list goes on for the expensive players he bought

  • @Abdi-libaax

    @Abdi-libaax

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@jayansaini7093 All those players were players who had great potential. You're looking at what they turned out to be. SAF bought a 18 year old Ronaldo while Real Madrid bought him when he won ballon Dior already, see the difference?? Arsenal bought Jeffers did he turn out to be world class? Alan Smith was a bizarre signing. And Cantona his manager gave him away while trying to buy Denis Irwin lol yes Rooney 30milion Rio 30 million but believe me he could have been more ruthless. He used come out and say fans shouldn't expect big signings this summer we have good young talent like Phil Jones and Chris smalling Jonny Evans 😫 at one point SAF started to focus on the league and not both(UCL). That was the beginning of the downfall. Sold 80million for CR7 bought young/Valencia he doesn't want go out get 3 world class players to cover CR7's loss that's not SAF style.

  • @cccant26
    @cccant262 жыл бұрын

    Alan Shearer Always breaking records 👑

  • @peterw5864
    @peterw58642 жыл бұрын

    Top stuff lads, need more of this type of stuff

  • @yatesy117
    @yatesy1172 жыл бұрын

    Jô did not cost £20m there were clauses included Thaksin Shinawatra admitted this paid £6-7m for him of course he never activated any of clauses as he was woeful lol

  • @CCCoNeTiMe
    @CCCoNeTiMe2 жыл бұрын

    Those cartoon headshots are doing the players dirty!!

  • @ettavictor4804
    @ettavictor48042 жыл бұрын

    People call Pep a "Cheque book manager" and say "unlike SAF who built up United from the ground". Maybe they should understand inflation.

  • @andrew7taylor

    @andrew7taylor

    2 жыл бұрын

    The only people who'd say that know nothing about what they're talking about. Man Utd finished either 3rd or 4th for 5 years and won the FA Cup twice before Ferguson was appointed. Not to mention they had the biggest stadium in the country by far, which meant most income. It wasn't anything like taking Crewe to the top of the game.

  • @paulkalibbala1339

    @paulkalibbala1339

    2 жыл бұрын

    Someone debunked this myth on Twitter. In the PL era under Fergie, United were the highest spenders in only 3 seasons (the treble-winning campaign, 2001/02 and 2002/03). Yes Keane was bought for a British transfer fee and Ferdinand was the most expensive defender but go to the TransferMarket site and filter it to the 90s, you'll find that they were outspent by Blackburn, Leeds, Everton, Liverpool and Newcastle.

  • @martinkerrmusic

    @martinkerrmusic

    2 жыл бұрын

    Ferguson did massively expand the ground under his stewardship and increased revenues by winning trophies. He also stacked the squad with academy products which cost nothing so he could spend the big bucks on a few of the best players in the world. I'm a Liverpool fan but Ferguson did an incredible job of building man united on and off the pitch.

  • @noobgamer-yt6zj
    @noobgamer-yt6zj2 жыл бұрын

    Coincidence or not but 222mn is what exactly PSG paid for Neymar

  • @fullspeedaheadbarcelona6502
    @fullspeedaheadbarcelona65022 жыл бұрын

    Shearer would be worth every penny 🤚🏼

  • @richardsandor9697
    @richardsandor96972 жыл бұрын

    I wish they at least tried explaining the maths behind these figures.

  • @positivenaija
    @positivenaija2 жыл бұрын

    Impressive as well as inspiring thinking/analysis and video. Thank you.

  • @Hafris33
    @Hafris332 жыл бұрын

    I knew it would be Alan Shearer because I was waiting so long for it.

  • @Efeverscente
    @Efeverscente2 жыл бұрын

    So The Athletic and Tifo Football are the first big media outlets talking about the Economic Bubble in world football?

  • @itanyichiebuka
    @itanyichiebuka2 жыл бұрын

    Such an informative channel!

  • @dave3295
    @dave32952 жыл бұрын

    What I take from this, is that although people say City “bought the league” - and the same for Chelsea - united actually did exactly the same thing as most of the top 10 are their players.

  • @mihirchhablani

    @mihirchhablani

    2 жыл бұрын

    Massive difference in where the money came from.

  • @dave3295

    @dave3295

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@mihirchhablaniI would say it doesn’t really matter where the money came from. Man Utd were just in the right place at the right time when the premier league happened. If it happened 10 years earlier, arguably Liverpool would have been the richest club in the world. I won’t argue, however, that fact SAF was possibly the best manager of all time. This just smells a bit like hypocrisy. Man Utd were fortunate to start winning when the prem started and money rolled in. The rest of it is realistically irrelevant.

  • @liamness

    @liamness

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@dave3295 Similarly, Everton were unfortunate to be on top when the Heysel ban came in. The history of when and why particular clubs dominated domestic and european competition is largely a story of luck and / or financial doping whichever way you slice it.

  • @dave3295

    @dave3295

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@liamness I completely agree.

  • @jayansaini7093

    @jayansaini7093

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@liamness yh same goes for lfc during the heysal ban, they couldve easily added 2 or 3 more ucls to there ucl count if the ban was never enforced

  • @AM-xg4vl
    @AM-xg4vl2 жыл бұрын

    i want to see a list including the salaries and bonuses inflation adjusted!

  • @imconfused1237

    @imconfused1237

    2 жыл бұрын

    Arsenal would be near the top

  • @patrickmillar7908
    @patrickmillar79082 жыл бұрын

    Great video, loved it. But the illustrations of the players face’s freaked me out a bit

  • @wiqwaq1829
    @wiqwaq18292 жыл бұрын

    Funny how people said Man u didnt spend alot of money under ferguson, he spent the most in the 90s, and early 2000's. It just doesnt seem alot because inflation effected the transfer sums. Guess how man utd got all the best players in the league? They bought them from rivals. Man utd used to be the juventus of england.

  • @WOOOPdoctorFROGhere

    @WOOOPdoctorFROGhere

    2 жыл бұрын

    and Juventus used to be the Bayern Munchen of Serie A

  • @samueljadson3802
    @samueljadson38022 жыл бұрын

    It would be cool to see the inflated figures for overall club spend. I'm sure United would sit top

  • @djfunkychicken
    @djfunkychicken2 жыл бұрын

    In 1997 Inter Milan bought Brazilian Ronaldo for £27 million.. which in todays market is £388 million !!!

  • @KageanRage
    @KageanRage2 жыл бұрын

    This video and the concept behind it are brilliant! Every ex-player, and fan of these teams at those times, would be all the wiser for knowing these 'adjusted for football inflation' amounts. However - the commentary with this video has some solid flaws - for example when the narrator says things like 'X owner paid that amount but would have been unlikely to pay if it were this (translated) amount'. Three or four times this sort of logic is mentioned and it's not true at all - that translated amount is EXACTLY the amount that the owner/manager would spend today - that's the whole point!

  • @imconfused1237

    @imconfused1237

    2 жыл бұрын

    Indeed. The narration is infantile. The whole premise appears to normalise transfer fees. I don’t see the point, but whatever. To parrot ‘they wouldn’t pay that today’ adds ZERO insight. Possibly one of the most stupid videos I think I’ve ever watched.

  • @theskankingpigeon965

    @theskankingpigeon965

    2 жыл бұрын

    No the translated amount is not really comparable. The inflation calculation used in this video based on football prices today, which are distorted by a handful of wealthy state-backed clubs and the generally higher levels of money in football dragging up the average prices. The calculations in this video do not account for monetary inflation, which at the beginning of the video, they said has averaged around 2.8% a year. Take Alan Shearer's £15 million move to Newcastle in 1996 - the £222 million stated is basically what an oil rich team like Man City would have to pay for him today, but this number is a complete fiction and has no bearing on the actual value of money. In real terms, £15 million in 1996 is worth only £30 million in 2022 at an annual inflation rate of 2.8%. So Joe is perfectly reasonable in saying, for example, that so and so chairman wouldn't have paid £222 million - because in fact they only paid the equivalent of £30 million (using the Shearer to Newcastle example).

  • @imconfused1237

    @imconfused1237

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@theskankingpigeon965 The problem with hair brain pseudo ‘inflation’ methods - such as what Tifo have tried here - is that they are inherently flawed. Monetary inflation is a fixed indexation of consumables: same product, different era = % change. There is no such reliable proxy in football as each footballer is different. And as you say, no whacko measure accounts for the inflated premium attached to purchases from doped clubs who don’t have to worry about balancing any books.

  • @KageanRage

    @KageanRage

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@theskankingpigeon965 What you're referring to as distortion, is in fact the key force which is dragging up the market rates for players. So whilst it's 'distortion' relative to standard economic inflation, it is by accounting for it, as well as the extra money that is now in football for all clubs (through increased TV rights etc), that the creators of this video are able to claim that transfers over history can be compared on this basis. You can call it distortion, but it is now reality, and the video creators are accounting for it here. On the Shearer to Newcastle example, I would suggest that if the Newcastle owner was willing to pay a world-record transfer fee then for Shearer, and that meant 30m, then he would again pay a world record fee to sign him again now. It's a lot more money, but there is a lot more money in football, including for Newcastle to make if they sign the world's best player

  • @Noobie2k7
    @Noobie2k72 жыл бұрын

    I mean for this though if you are using the whole football inflation thing then you should also take into account that as the fee's reach a certain value there is a drop off. Like even now we don't see many players selling for over £100m. While this list assumes they all will have. It is a fun list though.

  • @makesiquashie4358
    @makesiquashie43582 жыл бұрын

    Don’t know if this was a typographical error in the video, but from my understanding Man United paid £12.6 million to Aston Villa for Dwight Yorke in the summer of 1998, and not £17.3 million as shown in the video. Regardless of the fee paid, it was money well spent and he provided real value to that team.

  • @ck3837
    @ck38372 жыл бұрын

    Cheers Jeff

  • @cryha8789
    @cryha87892 жыл бұрын

    Surprised by no mention of Henry considering Arsenal got him for £10.5 mil in 99.

  • @MrMnazr
    @MrMnazr2 жыл бұрын

    I've been screaming of allan shearer the moment i clicked on the video. The most memorable transfer ever in premier League. With ginola, les Ferdinand and Beardsley, Newcastle was unfortunate to lost it all last minute to man utd on the league title.

  • @kakuite
    @kakuite2 жыл бұрын

    Well, after watching this video, I have concluded that the determined value of players are still the same, its just Inflation of modern day which have taken them to staggering amount for common folks like us.

  • @benjaminmcdonald4258
    @benjaminmcdonald42582 жыл бұрын

    I don’t see where these figures are coming from, the adjustment for “football inflation” just seems completely wrong. Why is it that all the biggest transfers are supposed to have happened in the late 90’s or early 00’s? In an era where we talk about some bonkers financial numbers only Pogba’s transfer to United is the only transfer from the 2010’s to make the top 10.

  • @Eibarwoman

    @Eibarwoman

    2 жыл бұрын

    Inflation has the effect of compounding interest. Hence only Pogba and Kepa really stood out of 2010s transfers as Pogba's was early enough to have some inflation influence and Kepa's was exceptional even with 1990s inflation adjusted players due to release clause panic buy.

  • @joebarnes100

    @joebarnes100

    2 жыл бұрын

    It's determined by the most expensive player at the time. Pogba was a world record fee. He was the bench mark. Neymar became the bench mark afterwards.

  • @benjaminmcdonald4258

    @benjaminmcdonald4258

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@joebarnes100 I don’t think that is the case. Veron’s transfer comes second on this list of all time premier league transfers but his transfer happened the same year Zidane moved to Real Madrid and for roughly 2/3’s of the fee.

  • @joebarnes100

    @joebarnes100

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@benjaminmcdonald4258 the neymar deal had a effect on the coutinho deal. So it effects the Premier league. But the Zidane one doesn't. Perhaps that is the difference. I'm just guessing to be honest.

  • @zaubnino77
    @zaubnino772 жыл бұрын

    Wonder when and at what price point would future transfer fees level off... Like clubs would start buying players at better cost price value especially after seeing how many have flopped

  • @felixhumay1979
    @felixhumay19792 жыл бұрын

    Cool video but how are you not going to explain the methodology behind the calculation? These are just numbers out of context - how much weight does inflation have? Are the players wages included?

  • @benba8342
    @benba83422 жыл бұрын

    When you do a list video pleaSe include the list overview at the end.

  • @WOOOPdoctorFROGhere

    @WOOOPdoctorFROGhere

    2 жыл бұрын

    and surely they should tell us how to actually do the calculation

  • @jmitch6896
    @jmitch68962 жыл бұрын

    is there a list of the top 100 that we can see any where please?

  • @DC.15
    @DC.152 жыл бұрын

    Thought Andy Carroll would be on there for some reason. Forgetting Torres went for much more at the time. Hahaha

  • @bigc181
    @bigc1812 жыл бұрын

    Before the reveal I'm assuming the answer is Rio Ferdinand. Transferring to Man Utd for just shy of 30m in 2001/02

  • @Lukazure
    @Lukazure2 жыл бұрын

    interesting video. those portraits are somewhat abstract to say the least... did the guy who made that ronaldo statue draw them?

  • @nkemsamuelnnanna
    @nkemsamuelnnanna2 жыл бұрын

    What's the formula used in calculating the fees?

  • @joebarnes100
    @joebarnes1002 жыл бұрын

    Liverpool don't have many players on the list. Tomkins times wrote a book about this ages ago it's called play as you pay. Anyone who had a good mathematical mind knew what was happening. Buying the league as been happening for a very long time.

  • @paco20927
    @paco20927 Жыл бұрын

    Shearer transfer was 15million in 1996, then in 1997 R9 went from Barcelona to Inter Milan for 18million. You should do a video of European transfers adjusted for inflation

  • @wwehdizzle
    @wwehdizzle2 жыл бұрын

    Inflation is gonna catch up with football inflation in the next couple of years lol

  • @iv0rysh0es39
    @iv0rysh0es392 жыл бұрын

    I’d be interested to see this for all the Brasilian stars signed over to Europe.

  • @MgrMario
    @MgrMario2 жыл бұрын

    yall should cover how todays PL team are not about 11 starting line up anymore, its close to having 2 high octane team in one club like city and liverpool

  • @seanmackenzie1449
    @seanmackenzie14492 жыл бұрын

    4:26 - John Greggory? That Willem Dafoe surely!😂

  • @WOOOPdoctorFROGhere

    @WOOOPdoctorFROGhere

    2 жыл бұрын

    all of the illustrations are worryingly chimp-like

  • @inst4rmin.x4_onYT
    @inst4rmin.x4_onYT2 жыл бұрын

    I'd be interested in the math behind the formula.. Seems to me some of these are even with football inflation wildly exaggerated

  • @sukhdevr3489

    @sukhdevr3489

    2 жыл бұрын

    Same. The Jo and Robinho transfers were multiplied by different amounts and Shevchenko's price was by over 3 times despite it only being 2 years before the first 2.

  • @FalseSpace
    @FalseSpace2 жыл бұрын

    Imo it can be proper if you explain what is the formula of the football inflation

  • @adefusitemiloluwa3648
    @adefusitemiloluwa36482 жыл бұрын

    I would I have loved we got a brief idea of the formula though because it just has me all confused

  • @matho1449
    @matho14492 жыл бұрын

    It really puts into perspective the United threshold and Bayern-esk buy the best, from the rest policy they had in the Prem and around. Their criticism of Man City is already bizzare enough cause everyone buys players but it's so delusional no, in the context of this video as Man City get trolled for using money by, dare I say Moneychester United themselves

  • @schadenfreude8840

    @schadenfreude8840

    2 жыл бұрын

    Sir Alex spent 26 years on united and only 6-7 of his signings are here. That's a very good thing considering City spending a billion only in the last decade

  • @amorphous7474

    @amorphous7474

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@schadenfreude8840 Just like United spent a billion in the last decade.

  • @imconfused1237

    @imconfused1237

    2 жыл бұрын

    United earned the money they spent; City acquire it through fraudulent sponsorship deals. That’s the difference, sunny Jim.

  • @chrismullan2125

    @chrismullan2125

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@schadenfreude8840 5 out of the top 10 are signings to United. 4 of them being Fergie. I am sure if you looked at the top 100 it would consists of approx 30-40% of United Signings, with a large portion being under Fergie. You want to buy the title, that's absolutely fine if that's how you want to go about it, but just don't be hypocritical when criticising Citeh in doing the same.

  • @imconfused1237

    @imconfused1237

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@chrismullan2125 Fergie earned the money he spent through continued success, largely based of that golden generation of kids. City? It’s just fake sponsorship deals isn’t it.

  • @Ace-zc3tt
    @Ace-zc3tt2 жыл бұрын

    Can u do this with all transfers not just premier league ones.

  • @ryanwilliamson5714
    @ryanwilliamson57142 жыл бұрын

    Why not make a series of these? Transfers from x league to league y etc etc. Would be interested on a personal note for out of the scottish league, or transfers taking people out of the lower divisions? :-)

  • @sergiowinter5383

    @sergiowinter5383

    2 жыл бұрын

    Thanks to Tifo I now want to know about the most expensive player in the history of League Two. Also thanks to FIFA that showed me that such league exists and is kinda famous

  • @zomgbrattodilolrenzor6081
    @zomgbrattodilolrenzor60812 жыл бұрын

    For what Alan Shearer did in NewCastle, he's worth every single penny.

  • @mgphall1
    @mgphall12 жыл бұрын

    What would have been the fee Blackburn paid for alan shearer from Southampton?

  • @ImJustSomeLad
    @ImJustSomeLad2 жыл бұрын

    Great video! And I listen to Kieron Maguire’s podcast which I highly recommend to anyone. It’s called The Price of Football and talks inline with football economics

  • @benlorimer9309
    @benlorimer93092 жыл бұрын

    I'd love to see this applied to a clubs net spend to better represent how much a sale is worth on the market. For instance when Benteke was sold by Liverpool everyone seemed impressed that they made most of his cost back in the transfer. But the market also moved in that year, and I always thought that Liverpool took a much bigger haircut to dump him than it appeared

  • @ronjamesesq
    @ronjamesesq2 жыл бұрын

    Errr, what about the world class player Tomas Brolin Parma to Leeds 4.5m?

  • @tupp001
    @tupp0012 жыл бұрын

    Please list the formula you used here...

  • @alex-cm9fd
    @alex-cm9fd2 жыл бұрын

    can you please give a link to tje calculation of these fees?

  • @sukhdevr3489

    @sukhdevr3489

    2 жыл бұрын

    I don't know it but the longer ago it was, the higher the new cost is.

  • @alex-cm9fd

    @alex-cm9fd

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@sukhdevr3489 yeah but I would like to see the math. A simple linear model isn't enough I think. For example do they consider the average cost of a midfielder every year and this sets the base price? This video, without link to the math they use is pointless, I can make the same video, change the list completely, tell that some dudes from Liverpool made the required calculations, without providing a link and call it a day

  • @sukhdevr3489

    @sukhdevr3489

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@alex-cm9fd Yeah that's true. I'm sure there are many factors that they haven't considered in their model.

  • @MrReese
    @MrReese2 жыл бұрын

    2:34 how can 88.5m be more than 100m City paid for Grealish? That makes no sense.

  • @bored_grape
    @bored_grape2 жыл бұрын

    Imagine buying Pobga for 126 million 🤣

  • @Th33Ic0n
    @Th33Ic0n2 жыл бұрын

    Knew straight up it had to be Alan Shearer

  • @garycaldwell7133
    @garycaldwell71332 жыл бұрын

    With the money in Scotland from say 1995 to 2005, using this calculator would be fun. Lennon 80m, FLo 110m, Sutton 85m, Ferguson 60m even Windass 33m. Oh please let us see that to show just how strong the Scottish league was then.

  • @joshmore7175

    @joshmore7175

    2 жыл бұрын

    Oh that would be hilarious

  • @Eibarwoman

    @Eibarwoman

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@joshmore7175 It gets crazier when one sees the 00-01 Alaves team that almost beat Liverpool and then compare to Real Betis who flung 125m on Denilson for only 13 goals over 7 seasons. Alaves, spent almost nothing and went absurdly far then you have Real Betis.

  • @ramses6163
    @ramses61632 жыл бұрын

    Who drew those faces 😩

  • @WOOOPdoctorFROGhere
    @WOOOPdoctorFROGhere2 жыл бұрын

    4:04 I think your artist has been watching too many of the original Planet of the Apes films

  • @maxomat4319
    @maxomat43192 жыл бұрын

    Can you also do it for the Galacticos?

  • @arthurmorgandegen
    @arthurmorgandegen2 жыл бұрын

    I would guess that Zidane's £47m transfer from Juve to Real is number 1 overall in Europe, that was a crazy fee at the time

  • @hipstr_t
    @hipstr_t2 жыл бұрын

    What annoys me is that people were criticizing Tottenham for not wanting to sell Kane for 100 million. 100 million isn't even enough for his left foot. Kane will most likely beat Shearers record and has more to his game than him.

  • @imconfused1237

    @imconfused1237

    2 жыл бұрын

    It’s the media, who like to push players away from competing clubs, towards the cartels. How dare Tottenham not sell their best player for a 50% discount; just who do they think they are!? Harry Kane is one of the finest No9’s to every grace the Premier League. Any player who tops both goals and assists in the same season is a very, very special footballer. We can all see that Kane will surpass Shearer and will play well into his late 30s aka Teddy Sheringham. He’ll retire as the greatest goalscorer ever seen in the league. He is worth - at the very least - £200m.

  • @allippincott
    @allippincott2 жыл бұрын

    Updating the fees themselves seems daft. £7m isn't e.g. £32m today or whatever and what does that even mean if £32m is worth £38m next season. Really what this needs in order to tell us something is some kind of indexing to market norms season on season.

  • @brianmorrissey554
    @brianmorrissey5542 жыл бұрын

    Paul Tomkins worked out this formula years ago

  • @TheBake1986
    @TheBake19862 жыл бұрын

    I’m never sure how accurate these exercises are but it’s interesting nonetheless. If any of those players were playing today I very much doubt clubs would pay the adjusted fees for them.

  • @kino6395

    @kino6395

    2 жыл бұрын

    While you think that, it's only with hindsight knowing how those players pan out. Hazard for 70m is a bargain Even 120m for Rio is good considering the time and quality of the player. While you can turn this around and say the opposite of all the flops just look at Lukaku, Werner and Kepa at Chelsea all mega money all flops and that's just one team. Arsenal put 72m for Pepe, then theres Barcelona. So teams will pay the money for talent like the names on the list no matter what you think. I think what people forget to account for is the fact you are replacing an era of players not adding. so teams will buy a Dennis Bergkamp for a 120m as there is no Kevin de bruyne.

  • @liamness

    @liamness

    2 жыл бұрын

    Some would be more, some would be less. The marketability of players is more of a factor these days than just what they will bring on the pitch, which makes sense when you consider commercial income has exploded.

  • @TheBake1986

    @TheBake1986

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@liamness It has but I think the £100m mark is still a brick wall that few clubs are prepared to exceed. This video seems to suggest that most very good to high quality Prem players were worth over that.

  • @Harry-mf6rq

    @Harry-mf6rq

    2 жыл бұрын

    Shearer at 222 seems about right. He was the world record transfer at the time. The current world record is also 222

  • @sergiowinter5383

    @sergiowinter5383

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@kino6395 Harsh statement about Werner and Kepa, they still have some potential, and Lukaku was and still is a beast, overpriced but far from a flop

  • @nigefal
    @nigefal2 жыл бұрын

    Good video but why stop at the start of the PL? Where do the likes of Kenny Dalgleish Stanley Mathews, Trevor Francis stand on the list?

  • @andresgirardo8481
    @andresgirardo84812 жыл бұрын

    We all knew Shearer would be number 1.

  • @wertin200
    @wertin2002 жыл бұрын

    At 2:40 you made an mistake, it is still grealish 100m

  • @WOOOPdoctorFROGhere

    @WOOOPdoctorFROGhere

    2 жыл бұрын

    also their artist has given Grealish way too much credit with his beard growth. The real Grealish can only dream of being so hirsute.

  • @Michael-Alexander
    @Michael-Alexander2 жыл бұрын

    Hey, could I please have the formula?

  • @lukeoconnor8866
    @lukeoconnor88662 жыл бұрын

    Keown’s face 😂😂

  • @kylewalkerr
    @kylewalkerr2 жыл бұрын

    So basically united went on cash rolling but todays media would see it as just 10 million

  • @anthonytpark
    @anthonytpark2 жыл бұрын

    We need a video like this for Real Madrid transfers

  • @akamiguelsanchez9985
    @akamiguelsanchez99852 жыл бұрын

    £222m for Shearer now would still be a bargain

  • @isaacfung622
    @isaacfung6222 жыл бұрын

    What is the exact formula then?

  • @prasannabalaji1886
    @prasannabalaji18862 жыл бұрын

    Alan shearer is worth every penny not jus for his performance but for his loyalty too❤️

  • @troygrindley3793
    @troygrindley37932 жыл бұрын

    For the amount of goals Shearer could get you, £222mil seems a bargain at todays prices.

  • @JBMNM
    @JBMNM2 жыл бұрын

    How can Collymore for £8.5m in 1995 be higher than Bergkamp for £10m the same summer?

  • @Charlie_Ses
    @Charlie_Ses2 жыл бұрын

    2:31 How is Robinho Man City's most expensive signing at £88.5m when Grealish cost £100m?

  • @leonard1587

    @leonard1587

    2 жыл бұрын

    an error perhaps

  • @wilfredv1930
    @wilfredv19302 жыл бұрын

    Is always funny to hear Tifo Football pronounce Kepa Arrizabalaga XDDDD

  • @cheesestring2032
    @cheesestring20322 жыл бұрын

    These are rookie numbers compared to my fifa career mode

  • @isthismylife
    @isthismylife2 жыл бұрын

    where would Colin Todd to Derby County be on that list?

  • @ninitinka
    @ninitinka2 жыл бұрын

    What's the formula?

  • @thewildformosanformosan
    @thewildformosanformosan2 жыл бұрын

    When real world inflation (not Bank of England or any central bank's inflation) is catching up on football inflation...

  • @robbielee6332
    @robbielee63322 жыл бұрын

    It just doesn't work like that

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