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.
As of October 2023, the highest transfer fee paid for an uncapped player is reported to be around €80 million for Jack Grealish when he transferred from Aston Villa to Manchester City in August 2021. This fee reflects the club's confidence in his potential despite not having made an appearance for the senior national team at the time of the transfer.
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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.
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.
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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.
Any answer is speculation as understandably, just like regular members of the public, football players don't tend to announce their wage in public as it's private. The liklihood is that Michael Ballack is the highest paid payer though. Having moved to Chelsea he will have commended higher wages as the club hadn't had to pay a transfer fee.