Expensive transfers that worked

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So many.

Rooney
Rio
Ronaldo
De Gea
Neymar
Suarez
Sterling
KDB?

Basically there are tons.
 

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Looking at the most expensive ones most are failures.

top 20 transfers:

Neymar - failed
Mbappe - success
Joao Felix - not looking good
Griezmann- not looking good
Coutinho- failed
Dembele - failed
Pogba - 50/50
Hazard - not looking good
Cristiano - huge success
Bale - success
Higuain (from napoli to juve)- success
Maguire - jury still out
Lukaku - failed
VVD - Huge success
Luis Suarez - success
Nicolas Pepe - not looking good
Kepa - not looking good
Lucas Hernandez - not looking good
Zidane - success
James Rodrigues - failed


Out of the top 10 only three lived up to the expectations and out of the top 20 only 7 you can call without a doubt, gets some perspective on how risky is to spend big on players.
But by contrast, if you look at the world record progression, almost all have been successes.
 

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Looking at the most expensive ones most are failures.

top 20 transfers:

Neymar - failed
Mbappe - success
Joao Felix - not looking good
Griezmann- not looking good
Coutinho- failed
Dembele - failed
Pogba - 50/50
Hazard - not looking good
Cristiano - huge success
Bale - success
Higuain (from napoli to juve)- success
Maguire - jury still out
Lukaku - failed
VVD - Huge success
Luis Suarez - success
Nicolas Pepe - not looking good
Kepa - not looking good
Lucas Hernandez - not looking good
Zidane - success
James Rodrigues - failed


Out of the top 10 only three lived up to the expectations and out of the top 20 only 7 you can call without a doubt, gets some perspective on how risky is to spend big on players.
Not sure how you can say Neymar failed but M'Bappe was a success. When healthy Neymar has been fantastic at PSG (even though I can't stand him). So if you are making that judgment by Ligue 1, then they would both have to be a success. If you are judging Neymar by his CHampions League success, then I would have to agree that he has been a failure. But if that's the case, then M'Bappe would be a failure too. I would also save my judgment on Felix and give him a "jury still out". It was expensive but he is still a young and developing player...
 

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Our return on Rooney has been absolutely incredible. For the price, years and trophies I really don't think it can be beat.
Fergie usually got the big ones right, Veron is the only outlier I can think of. Maybe Neil Webb too, although I wasn’t around for that one myself?