1. Gareth Bale – Tottenham to Real Madrid (€198.8m)
Transfer Fee €100m
The 24-year-old’s net salary over the six years of his contract is €60m, with los Blancos having to shell out an extra €30.81m in taxes after the closure of the ‘Beckham Law’ loophole in Spain.
With Madrid also paying a signing-on fee of €3m and commission to agents of €5m, the total cost was only just shy of €200m. Despite this, Perez still described the deal as “cheap”, implying that the club would more than make their money back commercially.
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