#1 Rio Ferdinand (Leeds to Manchester United) – £113.9 million
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Often lists of transfers are dominated by strikers, but this one is, unusually, headed by centre-back Rio Ferdinand, who moved from Leeds to Manchester United for £29.1 million in 2002. By today’s prices, that is close to £115m and at the time it was more than 11x the price the average player was being transferred for.
Sir Alex Ferguson, though, was a huge admirer of the England centre-back, who would play 12 years at Old Trafford and enjoy outstanding success, winning six Premier League titles and the Champions League of 2007-08. Despite serving an eight-month ban for missing a drugs test, he was named in the Premier League PFA Team of the Year six times.
Today, Ferdinand is remembered as perhaps England’s best defender of the modern era.
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