Transfer records

The first few seasons of the Premier League saw the record transfer fee paid by English clubs broken almost every season, a practice that resumed in the first few years of the twenty-first century.

• £3.75 million in June 1993 (Roy Keane, Nottingham Forest to Manchester United)
• £5 million in July 1994 (Chris Sutton, Norwich City to Blackburn Rovers)
• £7 million in January 1995 (Andy Cole, Newcastle United to Manchester United)
• £7.5 million in June 1995 (Dennis Bergkamp, Inter Milan to Arsenal)
• £8.5 million in July 1995 (Stan Collymore, Nottingham Forest to Liverpool)
• £15 million (then world record) in July 1996 (Alan Shearer, Blackburn Rovers to Newcastle United)
• £18 million in November 2000 (Rio Ferdinand, West Ham to Leeds Utd)
• £19 million in May 2001 (Ruud van Nistelrooy, PSV Eindhoven to Manchester United)
• £28.1 million in July 2001 (Juan Sebastián Verón, Lazio to Manchester United)
• £29 million in July 2002 (Rio Ferdinand, Leeds Utd to Manchester United)
• £30 million in June 2006 (Andriy Shevchenko, A.C. Milan to Chelsea)

Alan Shearer's £15-million record lasted nearly five years in England, although his worldwide record was broken within a year. Rio Ferdinand's record lasted nearly four years, before it was marginally broken in 2006 by the summer transfer of Andriy Shevchenko from A.C. Milan to Chelsea for an unknown figure between £30 million and £56 million. The creation of the Premier League, therefore, has seen the record fee paid by English clubs broken 11 times in under 15 years. The highest fee paid for a teenager is £27 million. This fee was paid by Manchester United to Everton for England striker Wayne Rooney in 2004.