Transfers in summer window 2014

Real Madrid sign James Rodriguez from Monaco on a 6 year deal no shock there then lol.

(22-07-2014 13:36 )*Kal-El* Wrote:  Real Madrid sign James Rodriguez

He becomes the 4th most expensive player of all time, after Gareth Bale, Cristiano Ronaldo and Luis Suarez.

Real Madrid will have a formidable array of attacking options this coming season.

Tottenham sign Ben Davies from Swansea on a 5 year deal and Michel Vorm on a 4 year deal. Swansea sigh Gylfi Sigurdsson from Tottenham on a 4 year deal.

(22-07-2014 13:44 )William H Bonney Wrote:  He becomes the 4th most expensive player of all time, after Gareth Bale, Cristiano Ronaldo and Luis Suarez.

5th actually after Neymar..

Barcelona insist that the fee for Neymar was 57m euros - and since the transfer has been subject to a criminal investigation in Spain the club have provided the necessary documentation to investigators to substantiate their statements that the fee was €57m.

This makes Neymar only the 13th most expensive transfer. As posted above, James Rodríguez is the 4th highest. Zinedine Zidane is 5th.

(23-07-2014 22:55 )William H Bonney Wrote:  This makes Neymar only the 13th most expensive transfer.

From memory it was the 10th biggest at the time though.

(23-07-2014 23:38 )cosmonaut Wrote:  From memory it was the 10th biggest at the time though.

You are right, but the Neymar deal has since been overtaken by the transfers of David Luiz, Luis Suárez and James Rodríguez, pushing Neymar down to the 13th most expensive transfer ever.

(23-07-2014 22:55 )William H Bonney Wrote:  Barcelona insist that the fee for Neymar was 57m euros - and since the transfer has been subject to a criminal investigation in Spain the club have provided the necessary documentation to investigators to substantiate their statements that the fee was €57m.

This makes Neymar only the 13th most expensive transfer. As posted above, James Rodríguez is the 4th highest. Zinedine Zidane is 5th.

I don't know what reports you have been reading but they are wrong.... His price was well over €57m...

(24-07-2014 03:03 )Fernandez Esperenda Wrote:  I don't know what reports you have been reading but they are wrong.... His price was well over €57m...

Try Barcelona's own website. All press reports are based on the information provided there.


Detailed figures of Neymar transfer

fcbarcelona.cat 01/24/2014 19:55

Cost – 57.1 Million Euros

“We are very proud of the Neymar contract, but it seems like we are being asked to apologise for it. It was a very tough negotiation”, according to Raül Sanllehí, who personally headed the team which hammered out the deal. The Director of the Football Management Area said he very much regretted that the figures surrounding the transfer had been leaked, but again insisted that the global cost of the transfer was 57.1 million Euros, to which a bonus of 2 million Euros will be added if Neymar finishes in the top three of the Ballon D’Or.