Top 10 Most Expensive Signings Of 2013: Ranking Based On Overall Cost Of Player, Agents Fees and Wage Demands

5. Mesut Ozil – Real Madrid to Arsenal (€117.6m)

Transfer Fee €50m

Ozil’s fee only accounted for just over 40 per cent of the total cost of the operation. The German’s net salary for his five-year contract adds up to €40.5m, with the tax and payments on this salary increasing the outlay by another €21.06m.

When the signing-on fee of €2.03m and agents’ fees of €4.02m are brought into the equation, Arsenal will actually fork out €117.6m should Ozil stay at the Emirates until 2018.