Football: The world's most expensive transfers
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Your support makes all the difference.The world's most expensive transfers
pounds 18m* Ronaldo (Barcelona to Internazionale) 1997
pounds 15m Alan Shearer (Blackburn to Newcastle) 1996
pounds 13.2m Ronaldo (PSV Eindhoven to Barcelona) 1996
pounds 13m Anderson da Silva (Monaco to Barcelona) 1997
pounds 13m Gianluigi Lentini (Torino to Milan) 1992
pounds 12.5m Christian Vieri (Juventus to Atletico Madrid) 1997
pounds 12m Gianluca Vialli (Sampdoria to Juventus) 1992
pounds 12m Juninho (Middlesbrough to Atletico Madrid) 1997
pounds 11m Enrico Chiesa (Sampdoria to Parma) 1996
pounds 10m Jean-Pierre Papin (Marseilles to Milan) 1992
pounds 9m Roberto Rios (Real Betis to Athletic Bilbao) 1997
pounds 8.5m Stan Collymore (Nottm Forest to Liverpool) 1995
pounds 8.5m Roberto Baggio (Juventus to Milan) 1995
pounds 8.4m Alen Boksic (Marseilles to Lazio) 1993
pounds 8m Dennis Bergkamp (Ajax to Internazionale) 1993
pounds 8m Romario (Flamengo to Valencia) 1996
pounds 8m Andrei Kanchelskis (Everton to Fiorentina) 1997
* Final transfer fee still to be decided - pounds 18m was cost of buying out Ronaldo's contract with Barcelona.
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