Quiz! Can you name the 50 most expensive footballers of all time based on accumulated transfer fees?

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From the one-move record-breakers to the multiple big-club movers, more money has been spent on these 50 players than any others

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Note: Original data taken from out friends at Transfermarkt.com, although rounded to the nearest million. After all, what’s a few hundred thousand pounds between friends?

It was certainly small potatoes when it came to buying these players. Each one has moved for over £70m in their career, making them the 50 most expensive players of all time. Not that that necessarily makes them the best, of course.

Plenty have just moved a lot in their careers. For example, when David Platt retired in 1998 he was the second-most expensive player in history based on accumulated fees (over £22m), mainly thanks to his playing for three Serie A clubs across four seasons.

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Platty no longer cracks this list in 2019, but you have 10 minutes to name who does does. Each player’s total fees and nationality/position are below. Let us know your score @FourFourTwo – and please challenge some friends while you’re at it. Good luck!

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Alex Reid
Alex Reid

Alex Reid is a freelance journalist and the former digital features editor at FourFourTwo. He has also written for the Guardian, talkSPORT, Boxing News and Sport magazine. Like most Londoners, he is a lifelong supporter of Aberdeen FC. He is deceptively bad in the air for a big man. He has never been a cage fighter.