Arsenal’s transfer records according to transfermarkt:
Rank
Name
Amount
Season
1
Nicolas Pépé
€80m
19/20
2
Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang
€64m
17/18
3
Benjamin White
€59m
21/22
4
Alexandre Lacazette
€53m
17/18
5
Gabriel Jesus
€52m
22/23
6
Thomas Partey
€50m
20/21
7
Mesut Özil
€50m
13/14
8
Granit Xhaka
€45m
16/17
9
Alexis Sánchez
€43m
14/15
10
Shkodran Mustafi
€41m
16/17
It’s in Euros because they record it in Euros in their database, even though the spending was reported in pounds in many sources. Keeping it in pounds would have been tricky with inflation and currency rate changes over the years.
So, Pépé was the most expensive player Arsenal ever bought, but was he the biggest flop from the top 10?
Who do you think was the best and worst deal from that top 10 list?
It’s also interesting to see the transfer inflation. When Arsenal bought Ozil, he set the transfer record, and €50m was a lot of money. Just 3 years later Mustafi cost €41m and while that was a lot of money for Mustafi, it didn’t register as a massive transfer spending, the way €50m had just a few years earlier.
Arsenal’s transfer records according to transfermarkt:
It’s in Euros because they record it in Euros in their database, even though the spending was reported in pounds in many sources. Keeping it in pounds would have been tricky with inflation and currency rate changes over the years.
So, Pépé was the most expensive player Arsenal ever bought, but was he the biggest flop from the top 10?
Who do you think was the best and worst deal from that top 10 list?
It’s also interesting to see the transfer inflation. When Arsenal bought Ozil, he set the transfer record, and €50m was a lot of money. Just 3 years later Mustafi cost €41m and while that was a lot of money for Mustafi, it didn’t register as a massive transfer spending, the way €50m had just a few years earlier.
People who try to do wenger down really forget just how little we used to spend.
Serie A and La Liga were dropping Sanchez money a decade and a half before we were and Chelsea dropped as much on Shaun Wright Phillips