#1 Hernan Crespo – € 55m
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Closing out our list at number one is Argentina’s ace poacher Hernan Crespo. Parma were left with a cash surplus after they sold Hernan Crespo to Lazio for €55 million at the start of the 2000/01 season.
Judging by this list, it is indeed difficult to imagine how Parma have fallen from grace in recent times, given the massive amounts of money they received as transfer fees in the infant stages of the new millennium.
Crespo went on to become an instant hit at Lazio, where he scored 45 goals in 71 games. However his stay at Lazio was short-lived as lethal poachers in Italy are a rare breed, and he was soon snapped up by Inter Milan in 2002.
Parma had acquired Crespo’s services for a paltry 4 million Euros, from River Plate, in 1996. He played the maximum number of matches (187) and scored the maximum number of goals (88) at Parma, during his career. The 3 time Serie A winner is now regaling Indian audiences in the newly launched Premier Futsal league, where he turns out for the Kolkata franchise.
