Neymar, Coutinho, Zidane: The 15 most profitable transfers in football history

According to the Guardian, Liverpool have a verbal agreement in place to sign Darwin Nunez from Benfica in a deal that could potentially be worth around £85 million.

The Reds will pay a guaranteed figure of £68.3 million with a potential further £17 million coming through performance based add-ons.

Given Benfica paid just £21.6 million to UD Almeria back in 2020, that could mean a potential mark up of over £63 million on Nunez.

It’s not bad business, ey?

But how would that rank in comparison to some of the other highly profitable transfers that have occurred throughout football history?

We headed over to Transfermarkt to do some digging and find out.

Check out what we came up with below.

15. Aurélien Tchouameni (Monaco to Real Madrid) – £55.8m14. Jadon Sancho (Borussia Dortmund to Manchester United) – £57.97m13. Antoine Griezmann (Atletico Madrid to Barcelona) – £59.4m 12. Riyad Mahrez (Leicester City to Manchester City) – £60.57m 11. Thomas Lemar (Monaco to Atletico Madrid) – £61.2m

10. Virgil van Dijk (Southampton to Liverpool) – £62.06m9. Harry Maguire (Leicester City to Manchester United) – £65.97m8. Zinedine Zidane (Juventus to Real Madrid) – £66.6m7. Cristiano Ronaldo (Manchester United to Real Madrid) – £67.5m6. Dusan Vlahovic (Fiorentina to Juventus) – £70.56m

5. Eden Hazard (Chelsea to Real Madrid) – £72m 4. Gareth Bale (Tottenham Hotspur to Real Madrid) – £77.67m3. Ousmane Dembele (Borussia Dortmund to Barcelona) – £94.5m2. Phillipe Coutinho (Liverpool to Barcelona) – £109.8m 1. Neymar (Barcelona to Paris-Saint Germain) – £120.6m

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So, despite Barcelona buying Neymar for a staggering £79m from Santos, the £200m fee that PSG forked out means he somehow ends up the most profitable