Quiz! Can you guess whether these 25 players have broken the all-time transfer record?

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Time for another football quiz – how well do you players to have broken the all-time record for most expensive signing?

Between 1893 and 1951, 20 players broke the world transfer record. Only one of them was not from England, Scotland or Wales.

So while we assume that British tax is a modern phenomenon in which the hyper-wealthy Premier League elite add another zero to their players to fulfil a quota, there's actually a history to it. 16 English players have been the most expensive of all time, at one stage or another.

And 19 times, an English club has broken the record. That's one more than Italian clubs: Spanish clubs have smashed the ceiling nine times and no one else has ever done it more than once.

We've picked 25 players, past and present.

Can you tell us if they've ever had the honour of being named the most expensive in the sport?

No time limit on this quiz: remember to comment your scores below.

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Mark White
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Mark White has been at on FourFourTwo since joining in January 2020, first as a staff writer before becoming content editor in 2023. An encyclopedia of football shirts and boots knowledge – both past and present – Mark has also represented FFT at both FA Cup and League Cup finals (though didn't receive a winners' medal on either occasion) and has written pieces for the mag ranging on subjects from Bobby Robson's season at Barcelona to Robinho's career. He has written cover features for the mag on Mikel Arteta and Martin Odegaard, and is assisted by his cat, Rosie, who has interned for the brand since lockdown.

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