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The fees paid by the Premier League's top clubs began to increase at a rapid rate, with Alan Shearer commanding the first £15,000,000 fee in 1996, and the new millennium heralding the first £30,000,000 transfer, although sources differ as to whether this barrier was broken by Rio Ferdinand's move to Manchester United in 2002 or Andriy Shevchenko's transfer to Chelsea four years later.
The following is a list of most expensive association football transfers, which details the highest transfer fees ever paid for players, as well as transfers which set new world transfer records. The first confirmed record transfer was of Willie Groves from West Bromwich Albion to Aston Villa for £100 in 1893 [ 1 ] (equivalent to £14,000 in 2023).
The 2021 English football summer transfer windowruns from 24 May to 31 August 2021. Players without a clubmay be signed at any time, clubs may sign players on loandependent on their league's regulations, and clubs may sign a goalkeeperon an emergency loan if they have no registered senior goalkeeper available.
The gross spend was 90 per cent higher than the previous record of £430m in 2018 and almost triple the previous January window (£295m) Premier League clubs smash January transfer fee record Skip ...
Middlesbrough, 4 February 2022) The 2021–22 season was Manchester United 's 30th season in the Premier League and their 47th consecutive season in the top flight of English football. On 27 August 2021, Cristiano Ronaldo returned to the club from Juventus after 12 years away, having left for Real Madrid in 2009 for a world record transfer fee .
The 2021–22 English football winter transfer window runs from 2 September 2021 to 2 February 2022. Players without a club may be signed at any time, clubs may sign players on loan dependent on their league's regulations, and clubs may sign a goalkeeper on an emergency loan if they have no registered senior goalkeeper available.
2022–23→. The 2021–22 Premier Leaguewas the 30th season of the Premier League, the top English professional league for association football clubs since its establishment in 1992, and the 123rd season of top-flight English football overall. The start and end dates for the season were released on 25 March 2021,[2]and the fixtures were ...
Walsh's fee alone in the summer 2022 window eclipsed this, with further high transfer fees being paid as a domino effect supplementing the season total. [ 73 ] The transfer was predicated on the growing popularity of women's football and its players in England and Spain; [ 73 ] with Walsh's fee having shown the financial power of this growth, fees continued accelerating in such markets. [ 101 ]