Top Ten: Football transfers that shocked the world

8) Socrates

It was probably one of the most laughable transfer rumours that came true.

Garforth Town, a football club from north Yorkshire playing in the tenth tier of English football had an owner, Simon Clifford, who ran several football schools based on Brazilian techniques.

And in 2004, when he announced that Socrates, the legendary captain of the great Brazil side of 1982 and 1986, would be playing for their club, the fans went berserk .

A record crowd of 1300, Garforth’s biggest in forty years, turned up to see their star signing. They waited until seventy minutes, before Socrates finally stood up amidst rapturous ovation to take on the field and rolled back the years. He had one shot, played twelve minutes, before complaining of a nasty headache. A brief but an unforgettable encounter.