Most expensive transfers of the 2000s

Cristiano Ronaldo at his Real Madrid presentation in July 2009.
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The new millennium brought big transfers across Europe, with one club in particular shaking up the market.

Florentino Perez was elected as Real Madrid president in the summer of 2000 and his policy of signing "Galacticos" saw some huge deals completed in the first half of the decade.

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Ben Hayward
Weekend editor

Ben Hayward is the Weekend Editor of FourFourTwo. A European football writer and Tottenham Hotspur fan with over 15 years’ experience, he has covered games all over the world - including three World Cups, several Champions League finals, Euros, Copa America - and has spent much of that time in Spain. Ben speaks English and Spanish, currently dividing his time between Barcelona and London, covering all the big talking points of the weekend on FFT: he’s also written several list features and interviewed Guglielmo Vicario for the magazine.