- Bavarian Financial Works
Five new entries into the top 10, a new number one, and a host of drops and rises.
The transfer market is f****d.
Elliot Anderson recently completed a record-breaking £116m transfer to Manchester City, making him the most expensive British player in history. Meanwhile, Spurs have either struck oil or signed a deal with the devil, after inking Sandro Tonali for a club-record £100m — breaking their £85m record transfer of Mateus Fernandes set just four days prior.
The transfer market is following an unavoidable truth of life: everything is getting ridiculously expensive.
We all know the universal agony of walking into a grocery store, grabbing your favourite beer, only to see the price has skyrocketed. You reminisce on cheaper days, remembering a time when you could have bought an entire case for the price of one, lonely, and expensive bottle of liquid vitamin B.
In adult talk, this is called inflation.
It sucks, and it doesn’t just apply to our everyday lives but to the transfer market as well — just at a hyper inflated rate. For example, Anderson’s £116m transfer fee looks like insanity on paper, but he wouldn’t even crack the Premier League’s top 20 most expensive transfers of all time — when you adjust for inflation that is.
That got me thinking: what do Bayern Munich’s top 10 most expensive transfers of all time look like when you adjust for inflation?
Well, here is the updated top ten list calculated by scaling historical fees against a football-specific inflation index while factoring in the rapid growth of global football revenue, club spending power, and average market prices over time rather than standard consumer price inflation.
10. Luis Díaz
9. Javi Martínez
Adjusted fee — €70.3m
8. Mario Gómez
Adjusted fee — €75.7m
7. Leroy Sané
Adjusted fee — €77.25m
6. Arturo Vidal
Original fee — €39.25m
Adjusted fee — €90.75m
5. Franck Ribéry
Adjusted fee — €93.2m
4. Harry Kane
3. Corentin Tolisso
Original fee — €41.5m
Adjusted fee — €116.5m
2. Matthijs de Ligt
Adjusted fee — €137.5m
1. Lucas Hernández
Adjusted fee — €139.5m
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