Progression of the most expensive transfer in Serie A information
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The following list shows the chronological progression of the most expensive transfer in the history of the Serie A. All the buying teams are Italian.
The cost does not include the salary of the player, an aspect that in the last few decades the sports press usually merged.
However, the list is not complete, since in some cases between two consecutive transfers listed it is possible that there is a third one that for a period was the new record.
Date
Player
From
To
Cost
July 1942
Valentino Mazzola and Ezio Loik
Venezia
Torino
₤1.25 million+[1][2][3]
19 September 1945
Silvio Piola
Lazio
Juventus
~₤2 million[4][5][6]
20 August 1946
Osvaldo Fattori
Vicenza
Sampdoria
₤10 million[7][8]
25 June 1949
Giuseppe Moro
Bari
Torino
₤53 million[9][10]
June 1952
Hasse Jeppson
Atalanta
Napoli
₤75 million[11][12][13]
27 May 1957
Omar Sívori
River Plate
Juventus
~₤150 million ($ARS10 million)[14][15]
10 July 1975
Giuseppe Savoldi
Bologna
Napoli
₤2 billion[16][17]
June 1983
Zico
Flamengo
Udinese
~₤6 billion ($US4 million)[18]
30 June 1984
Diego Maradona
Barcelona
Napoli
~₤12.75 billion ($7.5 million)[19][20]
17 May 1990
Roberto Baggio
Fiorentina
Juventus
₤16 billion[21][22]
30 June 1992
Gianluigi Lentini
Torino
A.C. Milan
₤23 billion[23]
July 1997
Ronaldo
Barcelona
Inter Milan
~₤48 billion (Pta4 billion)[24][25]
8 June 1999
Christian Vieri
Lazio
Inter Milan
₤90 billion[26][27]
10 July 2000
Hernán Crespo
Parma
Lazio
₤110 billion ($35.5 million)[28][29][30]
26 July 2016
Gonzalo Higuain
Napoli
Juventus
€90 million[31][32]
10 July 2018
Cristiano Ronaldo
Real Madrid
Juventus
€100 million[33]
^The details of the agreement provided the transfer of Mazzola and Loik from Venice to Turin for the amount of ₤1.25 million and the transfer of Raúl Mezzadra and Walter Petron to the Venetian team, as a further adjustment.
^"Loik e Mazzola hanno firmato per il Torino" (in Italian). La Stampa. 8 July 1942. p. 2. Retrieved 17 July 2018.
^Eugenio Danese (1 October 1942). "Il terzo campionato di guerra e i suoi probabili protagonisti" (in Italian). Il Littoriale. pp. 1, 3. Retrieved 17 July 2018.
^The agreement was structured as follows: ₤1.5 million in cash to be paid to Lazio and a friendly match to be played in Rome with tickets revenue (estimated around ₤0.5 million) in favor of Lazio itself.
^"Alla Juventus ed al Torino" (in Italian). La Nuova Stampa. 21 September 1945. p. 2. Retrieved 31 July 2018.
^"Il campionato di calcio 1945-46. Le squadre e i giocatori della Lega del Nord" (in Italian). Corriere dello Sport. 26 September 1945. p. 1. Retrieved 31 July 2018.
^"Fattori alla Liguria per 10 milioni!!" (in Italian). Corriere dello Sport. 21 August 1946. p. 2. Retrieved 1 August 2018.
^Vittorio Finizio (1 September 1946). "Le 20 squadre di Serie A come si presentano dopo la campagna degli ingaggi" (in Italian). Corriere dello Sport. p. 3. Retrieved 1 August 2018.
^"Il caso Moro" (in Italian). La Nuova Stampa. 26 June 1949. p. 4. Retrieved 17 July 2018.
^"Fervono tra Torino e Bari le trattative per Moro" (in Italian). Corriere dello Sport. 25 June 1949. p. 2. Retrieved 17 July 2018.
^The 105 million, often reported in recent sources, consisted 75 million to Atalanta and 30 million salary to the player for the three years contract.
^"La Roma promossa e il caso Foni" (in Italian). Nuova Stampa Sera. 24 June 1952. p. 4. Retrieved 16 July 2018.
^"Nesti all'Inter" (in Italian). Nuova Stampa Sera. 8 July 1952. p. 5. Retrieved 16 July 2018.
^"Sivori del River Plate passerebbe alla Juventus" (in Italian). la Nuova Stampa. 4 May 1957. p. 8. Retrieved 16 July 2018.
^"Concluso il passaggio di Sivori alla Juventus" (in Italian). La Nuova Stampa. 28 May 1957. p. 8. Retrieved 16 July 2018.
^Napoli paid Bologna ₤1.4 billion in cash with additional transfers of Sergio Clerici and Rosario Rampanti (co-owned with Turin), for the total amount of ₤2 billion.
^Giorgio Gandolfi (11 July 1975). "Follia: Savoldi 2 miliardi" (in Italian). Stampa Sera. p. 1. Retrieved 16 July 2018.
^Bruno Bernardi (14 June 1983). "In una busta segreta il domani della Roma" (in Italian). La Stampa. p. 21. Retrieved 16 July 2018.
^Gian Paolo Ormezzano (3 July 1984). "Sedici miliardi per Diego Maradona" (in Italian). La Stampa. pp. 1, 2. Retrieved 16 July 2018.
^"E ora il Napoli vuole affittare Maradona per quattro stagioni" (in Italian). La Repubblica. 19 May 1984. Retrieved 16 July 2018.
^Fulvio Bianchi (18 May 1990). "25 miliardi, Baggio è d'oro" (in Italian). La Repubblica. Retrieved 16 July 2018.
^"Nel contratto dei record anche la villa e una Ferrari" (in Italian). La Repubblica. 19 May 1990. Retrieved 16 July 2018.
^Claudio Giacchino (1 July 1992). "Lentini, fuga nel Milan" (in Italian). La Stampa. p. 29. Retrieved 16 July 2018.
^"Le curiosità" (in Italian). La Repubblica. 12 July 1997. Retrieved 17 July 2018.
^Nino Sormani (21 June 1997). "E Ronaldo ha firmato" (in Italian). La Stampa. p. 35. Retrieved 17 July 2018.
^In detail, Internazionale paid Lazio with ₤69 billion and the sale of Diego Simeone, valued at ₤21 billion.
^"Vieri, l'Inter fa la follia del secolo" (in Italian). La Repubblica. 9 June 1999. Retrieved 17 July 2018.
^In detail, Lazio acquired Crespo through the sale of Matías Almeyda (valued ₤45 billion) and Sérgio Conceição (₤30 billion) and ₤35 billion in cash.
^"Inarrestabile Lazio, un colpo da record" (in Italian). La Repubblica. 12 July 2000. Retrieved 17 July 2018.
^"Real tipped to land Kaka for £56m". BBC Sport. 3 June 2009. Archived from the original on 2 August 2017. Retrieved 3 June 2009.
^"Gonzalo Higuain è bianconero!" (in Italian). 26 July 2016. Retrieved 17 July 2018.
^"90 milioni Juventus-Higuain, è storia: spazzato via il record di 55 Lazio-Crespo" (in Italian). Retrieved 17 July 2018.
^Enrico Turcato (12 July 2018). "Facciamo i conti: Ronaldo da record in tutto, acquisto più costoso e stipendio più elevato" (in Italian). Retrieved 18 July 2018.
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