True that! I believe that at the time Cruijff transferred as a player Barca hasn't won in years. You could argue he's the reason Barca is as it is today thanks to him; he changed the entire club
+mackayoko and Ronaldinho to Barça as well. Took us out of the worst crisis in our history, returned the momentum to the change of power in la Liga and Europe and, most of all, returned happiness to the Camp Nou.
doesn't matter, in terms of transfers, he is the first 1million player. Bosman never won anything but the effect he had on football is more than pele and maradona ever had
+Nick Gucci Not really. FIFA and the UEFA have such a hard-on for the US that they will forever try to make football popular across the pond. The market is huge, and the potential profits are even bigger.
Maradona from Barcelona to Napoli was the first big shocking transfer in the world, it should be definitely in the list because it all started from there.
I think Cristiano Ronaldo from Sporting to United deserves to be on this list. Ronaldo is one of the most influential players ever, when he came to England the new era of football began. Look at the legacy he is leaving behind, from games, clothes, merchandise etc. I could go on
David Beckham deserved to be higher on the list. The Galaxy rebranded itself upon his arrival, the league rewrote their signing rules, and the world began asking "who are these MLS teams"?
These football transfers really changed the whole world!!! I can't imagine how different the world would be if Luis Veigo didn't move from Barcelona to Real Madrid. These transfers had more of an impact on the world than both world wars combined.
Ozil to Arsenal ? Wenger finally taking out money to spend in the transfer window ? Tevez to City ? Joining City Neighbours to let united know that City are coming to get them ?
+Ross_AFC Bale is a superstar. There is no other club for him more suitable. You just can't see past the booing and whatever you hear in the media. There is a lot more to the Bernabeu than what you see. But its true that if you are not a fan..its very easy to hate us. I get that. You have to earn your place every single match. Never mind if you hate us though. I can't make you understand 100+ yrs of culture in YT comment section anyway.
+Enzowit It's pretty easy, Barca is a rich city that wants to detach of Spain so they don't have to take care about the rest of the poor country, whilst Real cares about the country :)
Alan shearer world record (at the time) 15 million pound transfer fee to Newcastle really the first time when clubs started playing ridiculous amounts of money for players and it was a good transfer too saying as he sometimes sing handedly carried Newcastle at times
(1) Alfredo di Stefano - Millonarios to Real Madrid - the making of Real Madrid, therefore the Euopean Cup and thus modern football per se (2) Franz Beckenbauer - Bayern Munich to New York Cosmos (or Pele to NYC) incomprehensible at the time but about the globalisation of football and a pointer to the future (3) Johann Cruyff - Ajax to Barcelona - spreading the Dutch gospel; he later coached there too to reinforce the point (4) Trevor Francis - Birmingham City to Notts Forest - first million pound player and the commencement of really silly fees (5) Ferenc Puskas - Ferencvaros to Real Madrid - see (1) (6) Denis Law - Torino to Man Utd - British version of (1) (7) Kenny Dalglish - Glasgow Celtic to Liverpool - caused a dozen years of domestic and European domination (8) Jurgen Klinsmann - Stuttgart (-? - Cologne??) to Tottenham Hotspur - waking up the boring Brits to different ways of doing things
Gerrard and Lampard have been abysmal in MLS, if you're gonna highlight big names who came over last season give Drogba a mention, carried Montreal to the playoffs last season
no ronaldo, no di stafano, no Cruyff. di stafano paved the way for this European power house that is real Madrid and cruyff managed to transform a struggling team into world beaters before managing the club to massive success before inspiring a style of football that dominated Europe for almost ten years.
"Third party ownerships is banned worldwide now" No it isn't? It just isn't! Look at FC Twente, they are nearly bankrupt these days because of third party ownerships. Ownerships from a few years back, not 2006/07
