{"id":186283,"date":"2025-06-13T10:17:26","date_gmt":"2025-06-13T10:17:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2025\/06\/13\/most-expensive-premier-league-transfers-wirtz-to-break-record-and-move-above-chelsea-duo\/"},"modified":"2025-06-13T10:17:26","modified_gmt":"2025-06-13T10:17:26","slug":"most-expensive-premier-league-transfers-wirtz-to-break-record-and-move-above-chelsea-duo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2025\/06\/13\/most-expensive-premier-league-transfers-wirtz-to-break-record-and-move-above-chelsea-duo\/","title":{"rendered":"Most expensive Premier League transfers: Wirtz to break record and move above Chelsea duo"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The Premier League is set to welcome a new mega-money superstar, with Florian Wirtz about to become the most expensive signing in history.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

talkSPORT understands that Liverpool and Bayer Leverkusen have agreed a total fee of \u00a3116million<\/a> for Wirtz and that will see him set a new British transfer record this summer.<\/p>\n

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Wirtz to Liverpool is about to be the new British record transfer<\/span>Credit: Getty<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Chelsea currently still hold the record<\/a> after signing Moises Caicedo from Brighton for \u00a3115million in August 2023.<\/p>\n

The Blues also have the second-highest ever transfer fee following their signing of World Cup winner Enzo Fernandez from Benfica for \u00a3106.5million on deadline day of the 2022\/23 January window.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, Manchester United<\/a> had a long history of being the leading spenders in England and former star man Paul Pogba had previously been the top-flight’s priciest player.<\/p>\n

However, that all changed in the summer of 2021 when Manchester City bought Jack Grealish from Aston Villa.<\/p>\n

Man City did hold the record after spending \u00a3100million on England maestro Grealish, but now that deal has slipped down the list.<\/p>\n

Arsenal’s \u00a3105million signing of Declan Rice makes him the most expensive British player of all time, although he still sits behind the Chelsea duo in the history books.<\/p>\n

So, Wirtz will top this list once his move goes through, but who makes up the current top ten?<\/p>\n

Here, talkSPORT.com<\/a> looks at who has cost the most in English top-flight history.<\/p>\n

10.Josko Gvardiol (Leipzig to Manchester City in 2023) – \u00a378million<\/h2>\n
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Gvardiol is one of the most expensive defenders ever<\/span>Credit: Getty<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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9.Harry Maguire (Leicester to Manchester United in 2019) – \u00a380million<\/h2>\n
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Maguire’s move to Man United broke records<\/span>Credit: Getty<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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8. Antony (Ajax to Manchester United in 2022) – \u00a386million<\/h2>\n
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Antony is already primed for a move away from Old Trafford<\/span>Credit: Getty<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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7. Mykhailo Mudryk (Shakhtar Donetsk to Chelsea in 2023) – \u00a389million<\/h2>\n\n
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Mykhailo Mudryk’s move to Chelsea hasn’t been too successful so far<\/span>Credit: Getty<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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6. Paul Pogba (Juventus to Manchester United in 2016) – \u00a389million<\/h2>\n
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Former Man United star Paul Pogba never justified his price tag at Old Trafford<\/span>Credit: Getty Images – Getty<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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5. Romelu Lukaku (Inter Milan to Chelsea in 2021) – \u00a397million<\/h2>\n
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Romelu Lukaku’s move back to Chelsea didn’t go to plan<\/span>Credit: getty<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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4. Jack Grealish (Aston Villa to Manchester City in 2021) – \u00a3100million<\/h2>\n
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Grealish was once the most expensive Premier League player ever<\/span>Credit: Getty<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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3. Declan Rice (West Ham to Arsenal in 2023) – \u00a3105million<\/h2>\n
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Arsenal broke the British transfer record to sign Rice in 2023<\/span>Credit: Getty<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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2. Enzo Fernandez (Benfica to Chelsea in 2023) – \u00a3106.8million<\/h2>\n
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Fernandez has become a leader at Chelsea<\/span>Credit: AFP<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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1. Moises Caicedo (Brighton to Chelsea in 2023) – \u00a3115million<\/h2>\n
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Caicedo is soon to have his record fee beaten by Wirtz<\/span>Credit: Getty<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n

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The Premier League is set to welcome a new mega-money superstar, with Florian Wirtz about to become the most expensive signing in history.\u00a0 talkSPORT understands that Liverpool and Bayer Leverkusen have agreed a total fee of \u00a3116million for Wirtz and that will see him set a new British transfer record this summer. 11 Wirtz to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":186284,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6807],"tags":[95,100,208,952,22922,10513,196,22921,22920,449,7395,108,1832,1828,376,4440,14795,19844,22919,638],"class_list":{"0":"post-186283","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-leagues-cups","8":"tag-arsenal","9":"tag-chelsea","10":"tag-declan-rice","11":"tag-enzo-fernandez","12":"tag-enzo-fernandez-chelsea","13":"tag-florian-wirtz","14":"tag-jack-grealish","15":"tag-jack-grealish-to-man-city","16":"tag-jadon-sancho-man-utd","17":"tag-josko-gvardiol","18":"tag-kai-havertz","19":"tag-liverpool","20":"tag-man-city","21":"tag-man-united","22":"tag-moises-caicedo","23":"tag-mykhailo-mudryk","24":"tag-paul-pogba","25":"tag-premier-league-transfers","26":"tag-top-ten-most-expensive-premier-league-players","27":"tag-transfer-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186283","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=186283"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186283\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/186284"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=186283"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=186283"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=186283"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}