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Real Madrid hold the record for the most times to have broken the world transfer record (5), having remarkably made all five ground-breaking signings in the past seventeen years; no other club has broken the record this century.
Los Blancos’ first feat came at the pinnacle of the Galacticos era when Florentino Perez had only recently been announced as club president. The club would send shockwaves through the nation, paying out £37 million for Luis Figo in 2000, who played for bitter rivals Barcelona.
Just a year later and Madrid were at it again when they brought in Zinedine Zidane for an incredible £46 million from Juventus. Breaking the world transfer record became second nature for the club from then on, after they brought in Kaka from AC Milan for £56 milllion in 2009 and, perhaps most famously of all, Cristiano Ronaldo for £80 million from Manchester United in the same summer.
The most recent transfer record for the club was the signing of Gareth Bale from Tottenham for an eye-watering £86 million in 2013, which was the most recent record before Paul Pogba’s £89 million move to Old Trafford last summer.
