Goalkeepers don’t usually command the largest transfer fees, as the money men prefer to chuck their cash on glamorous players up the other end of the pitch. For a long time, the global transfer record was the €52m paid by Juventus for Gianluigi Buffon back in 2001.
That actually proved a bargain, as the man known in Italy as ‘Superman’ went on to give his club just the 17 seasons of flawless, flying net-mindery. Yet this summer, Prem sides have broken the global transfer record twice over as Liverpool and Manchester City have splashed the cash.
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