Cristiano Ronaldo at £80m
The highest transfer fee for a English footballer is 35 million pounds for Andy Carrol.
The highest paid soccer fee for a single player is, 80 Million Pounds by Real Madrid to Manchester United for Christiano Ronaldo in 2009
The highest transfer fee paid for an English player in the English Premier League was for Raheem Sterling. The total fee added up to a sum of 49 million pounds and, also involved a move from Liverpool to Manchester City.
It was tore Andre flo for 12.5M
Andriy Shevchenko - 30m Pounds
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The earliest recorded transfer fee record was the £100 paid by Aston Villa in 1893 for Willie Groves.
Sales tax, license fee, and transfer fee.
It all depends on the negotiations of the contract. However most transfer fee (especialy the large ones) are payed in instalments. For example the most recent large transfer of Torres from Liverpool to chelsey for a fee of about 60 million is paid in a period of time.
The transfer fee paid by Liverpool for Andy Carroll was £35 million. As Liverpool is wanting Andy Carroll back, their current valuation for him is £18 million.
Cristiano Ronaldo
Arsenal dont spend heavily on players, so the highest ever spent is on Anderi Arshavan