da betsul： January can be a difficult market for buying and selling players, purely because clubs done’t want to let go of their best players midway through a season while a lot of managers want to do all they can to improve their current crop of players.
da bet nacional： This January doesn’t’ seem to be much different, with two Premier League clubs in particular slapping huge price-tags on their most wanted players.
West Ham have told clubs in China it’ll cost at least £45million to prise Marko Arnautovic away from Stratford while Bournemouth have insisted it will take a bid of around £75m to convince them to sell Callum Wilson.
If they managed to get those fees then they’ll represent club record player sales for both sides. But what about the rest of the Premier League? What would it take for other clubs to break their current record player sale?
Surely most of these will be broken very, very soon…
20. Brighton – Leonardo Ulloa – £9.09m
The Argentina is perhaps more known for his time at Leicester but before then he was a force in front of goal for Brighton.
Arriving for just £2m from Almeria in January 2013, Ulloa netted 23 goals in 50 league appearances for the Seagulls before Leicester came calling and made Brighton a huge profit by signing him for just over £9m 18 months later.
19. Cardiff City – Steven Caulker – £9.68m
Believe or not, there was a time when Steven Caulker was one of the most sought after English defenders playing in the Premier League.
It didn’t quite work out how everyone expected for him but having enjoyed an impressive season in the top-flight with Cardiff, after signing from Spurs in July 2013, he was sold to QPR just a year later for just short of £10m – which remains Cardiff’s most profitable player sale to date.
18. Huddersfield – Tom Ince – £10.08m
Another Englshman who has struggled to live up to expectation, Tom Ince joined newly promoted Huddersfield Town from Derby County in July 2017.
But just a year later, despite helping Huddersfield to Premier League safety, he was sold to relegated Stoke City for just over £10m, where he is hardly setting the Championship alight.
17. Bournemouth – Matt Ritchie – £10.80m
The Scotland international was instrumental in Bournemouth’s first ever season in England’s top-flight.
So it was a huge shock when they agreed to sell him to relegated Newcastle in July 2016 for £10.80m. At the time it seemed like a real bargain but it remains Bournemouth’s club-record player sale.
16. Wolves – Steven Fletcher – £13.68m
This probably won’t stand for much long, given the amount of top talent currently playing in the Premier League for Wolves, but as things stand Steven Fletcher’s £13.68m switch to Sunderland in August 2012 remains Wolves biggest player sale ever.
Not a bad coup for Sunderland at the time given Fletcher’s record of 22 goals in 61 league appearances for Wolves.
15. Fulham – Mousa Dembele – £17.10m
This will go down as one of the biggest bargains in Premier League history, as the Belgium international moved from West to North London in a £17.1m deal back in August 2010.
He went on to make almost 250 appearances in all competitions for Spurs over six-and-a-half seasons. Surely though, at some point, selling Ryan Sessegnon will break Fulham’s current record breaking player sale?
14. Burnley – Michael Keane – £25.65m
The former Man United academy graduate made a loan move to Burnley permanent in January 2015.
Two-and-a-half years later, in July 2017, he was sold to Everton for a club record player sale – £25..65m.
13. Crystal Palace – Yannick Bolasie – £26.01m
Another player who Everton splashed big money on, Bolasie spent four seasons at Selhurst park before making the £26.01m switch to the Blue half of Merseyside.
You’d like to think Wilfried Zaha and perhaps even Aaron Wan-Bissaka will eventually fetch more for Palace in today’s transfer market, though.
12. West Ham – Dimitri Payet – £26.37m
The Frenchman will go down as one of the bargains of the Premier League era, having signed from Marseille for just over £10m in June 2015.
Having almost fired the Hammers in to the Premier League he then forced his way back to Marseille by downing tools in East London in January 2017, and the French club bought their man back for more than double what they sold him at.
The potential sale of Arnautovic to China, though, will eclipse this current club record sale at West Ham.