Matt Stead

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Manchester United legends Romelu Lukaku and Cristiano Ronaldo account for a quarter of the 20 most expensive striker signings in football history. 1) Kylian Mbappe – £165.7m/€180m (Monaco to Paris Saint-Germain, July 2018)How weird is it that PSG signed their all-time record goalscorer on loan seven years ago? How funny is it that he became basically more powerful than anyone else at the club, as well as the actual French president?

3 weeks ago | football365.com | Matt Stead |Matthew Stead

Man Utd love spending vast sums on teenage prodigies but even they cannot boast the most expensive Premier League signing ever under the age of 20. These right here are the most expensive teenage signings in Premier League history. Lewis Hall and Estevao Willian could eclipse some of these figures if they activate clauses in their transfers to Newcastle and Chelsea respectively. Konstantinos Karetsas could make this list if he joins Arsenal.

3 weeks ago | football365.com | Matt Stead |Matthew Stead

Florian Wirtz should become the most expensive attacking midfielder in history by an absurd margin if Liverpool hold their nerve in talks with Leverkusen. 1) James Rodriguez – £63.2m/€80m (Monaco to Real Madrid, July 2014)Never before has a shop window been so successfully deployed as when Rodriguez and his giant pet grasshopper dominated the 2014 World Cup so thoroughly that Real Madrid couldn’t help but make the Colombian the fourth most expensive footballer ever at the time.

3 weeks ago | football365.com | Matt Stead |Matthew Stead

Manchester City are heavily represented in a list of the 20 most expensive forwards in transfer history. Matheus Cunha is in but No 1) will never be shifted. 1) Neymar – £200m/€222m (Barcelona to Paris Saint-Germain, August 2017)A fee so ridiculous La Liga refused to receive the payment so PSG said LOL to FFP and handed the money straight to Barcelona, activating one of those stratospheric release clauses designed to typically make such transfers essentially impossible.

3 weeks ago | football365.com | Matt Stead |Matthew Stead

Man Utd used to sign the ‘best’ players from Premier League rivals; moves for Matheus Cunha and Bryan Mbeumo suggest a welcome return of that ‘policy’. Gary Neville once kindly explained the three facets which comprised the transfer philosophy of Sir Alex Ferguson, if indeed such a thing could exist for a manager whose career spanned almost four decades. “There were three categories to the policy,” the pundit said.