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Shearer’s record fee 20 years on
- Updated: July 29, 2016
Twenty years ago Newcastle smashed the world transfer record to sign Alan Shearer.
Just days before the anniversary of the former England striker’s famous £15m switch from Blackburn, Gonzalo Higuain became the third-most expensive player in the world with a £75.3m move from Napoli to Juventus.
The fee paid for the Argentina international – still some way short of the enormous sums paid by Real Madrid for Cristiano Ronaldo and Gareth Bale – highlights the remarkable escalation in transfer fees since 1996. And Paul Pogba could yet take the record to even greater heights this summer.
Shearer’s £15m fee doesn’t come close to the mega-deals being done today. Here’s where Higuain fits into our most expensive XI…
We start in goal with Juventus and Italy legend Gianluigi Buffon, who moved from Parma to Juventus for £32.6m in 2001 and remains the most expensive goalkeeper 15 years later.
His defence is marshalled by David Luiz, who left Chelsea for Paris Saint-Germain in a £40m deal, and Rio Ferdinand, who crossed the Pennines for £29.1m to join Manchester United from Leeds United …
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