Most expensive football transfers 2010/2011

The 50 biggest transfer fees of the 2010/2011 season, ranked by fee in euros. Edin Dzeko tops the list: VfL Wolfsburg → Manchester City Football Club for €37M (7 January 2011).

#	Player	From	To	Fee	Date
1	Edin Dzeko	VfL Wolfsburg	Manchester City Football Club	€37M	7 January 2011
2	Ángel Di María	Benfica	Real Madrid Club de Fútbol	€33M	1 July 2010
3	Mario Balotelli	Inter	Manchester City Football Club	€29.5M	12 August 2010
4	James Milner	Aston Villa Football Club	Manchester City Football Club	€22M	17 August 2010
5	André-Pierre Gignac	Toulouse Football Club	Olympique de Marseille	€16M	20 August 2010
6	Leonardo Bonucci	—	Juventus Football Club	€15.5M	1 July 2010
7	Dmytro Chygrynskyi	Futbol Club Barcelona	FC Shakhtar Donetsk	€15M	6 July 2010
8	Simon Kjær	Palermo FC	VfL Wolfsburg	€12.5M	8 July 2010
9	Jérôme Boateng	Hamburger Sport Verein	Manchester City Football Club	€12.5M	1 July 2010
10	Zoran Tosic	Manchester United Football Club	CSKA Moscow	€9.5M	1 July 2010
11	Bebé	Guimaraes	Manchester United Football Club	€8.8M	1 August 2010
12	Chris Smalling	Fulham Football Club	Manchester United Football Club	€8M	1 July 2010
13	James Rodríguez	Club Atlético Banfield	Futebol Clube do Porto	€7.4M	6 July 2010
14	Mattia Destro	Inter	Genoa Cricket and Football Club	€6.5M	1 January 2011
15	Taison	Internacional	Metalist Kharkiv (- 2016)	€6.3M	26 August 2010
16	Marko Arnautovic	Football Club Twente	Werder Bremen	€6.2M	1 July 2010
17	Sergio Canales	—	Real Madrid Club de Fútbol	€6M	1 July 2010
18	César Azpilicueta	Club Atlético Osasuna	Olympique de Marseille	€6M	1 July 2010
19	Henrikh Mkhitaryan	Metalurg Donetsk (- 2015)	FC Shakhtar Donetsk	€5.9M	30 August 2010
20	Franco Jara	—	Benfica	€5.5M	1 July 2010
21	Gylfi Sigurdsson	Reading FC	1899 Hoffenheim	€5.2M	31 August 2010
22	Ezequiel Muñoz	Club Atlético Boca Juniors	Palermo FC	€5M	5 August 2010
23	Robert Lewandowski	Lech Poznan	Borussia Dortmund	€4.8M	1 July 2010
24	Sokratis Papastathopoulos	Genoa Cricket and Football Club	Associazione Calcio Milan	€4.5M	20 July 2010
25	Nicolás Otamendi	Club Atlético Vélez Sársfield	Futebol Clube do Porto	€4M	31 August 2010
26	Facundo Bertoglio	—	Dynamo Kyiv	€3.6M	1 July 2010
27	Salomón Rondón	Las Palmas	Malaga	€3.5M	19 July 2010
28	José Sosa	FC Bayern München	Società Sportiva Calcio Napoli	€3M	30 August 2010
29	Ciprian Deac	CFR 1907 Cluj	FC Schalke 04	€3M	1 August 2010
30	Matej Vydra	Baník Ostrava	Udinese Calcio	€3M	1 July 2010
31	Damien Marcq	—	Caen	€3M	1 July 2010
32	Bas Dost	Heracles Almelo	Sportclub Heerenveen	€2.8M	1 July 2010
33	Danny Wilson	Rangers Football Club	Liverpool Football Club	€2.8M	1 July 2010
34	Ivan Rakitic	FC Schalke 04	Sevilla Fútbol Club S.A.D.	€2.5M	28 January 2011
35	Papu Gómez	Club Atlético San Lorenzo de Almagro	Catania FC	€2.5M	21 July 2010
36	Simon Mignolet	St. Truiden	Sunderland Association Football Club	€2.5M	1 July 2010
37	Domagoj Vida	NK Osijek	Bayer Leverkusen	€2.4M	1 July 2010
38	Marcos Alonso	—	—	€2.4M	1 July 2010
39	Marcos Rojo	Club Estudiantes de La Plata	Spartak Moscow	€2M	1 January 2011
40	Caner Erkin	CSKA Moscow	Fenerbahçe Spor Kulübü	€2M	5 July 2010
41	Olivier Giroud	—	Montpellier HSC	€2M	1 July 2010
42	Kyriakos Papadopoulos	Olympiakos Piraeus	FC Schalke 04	€2M	1 July 2010
43	Jonjo Shelvey	—	Liverpool Football Club	€2M	1 July 2010
44	Roberto Rosales	Gent	Football Club Twente	€2M	1 July 2010
45	Diego Chará	Deportes Tolima	Portland Timbers	€1.8M	14 April 2011
46	Yuto Nagatomo	FC Tokyo	Cesena FC	€1.6M	28 January 2011
47	Nassim Ben Khalifa	Grasshoppers	VfL Wolfsburg	€1.6M	1 July 2010
48	Juan Manuel Insaurralde	Club Atlético Newell’s Old Boys	Club Atlético Boca Juniors	€1.5M	1 July 2010
49	Luis Muriel	Deportivo Cali	Udinese Calcio	€1.5M	1 July 2010
50	Chris Basham	—	—	€1.4M	1 July 2010

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