Alisson’s rein as the world’s most expensive goalkeeper is over after less than three weeks.
Kepa Arrizabalaga, a 23-year-old with just one international cap to his credit, has usurped Liverpool’s star Brazilian with an €80million move to Chelsea on the eve of the Premier League’s transfer deadline day.
The talented Spain prospect has been hurried to Stamford Bridge as a long-term replacement for Thibaut Courtois – who hours earlier entered the top 10 of football’s priciest shot-stoppers by agreeing a long-awaited move to Real Madrid.
But, with only a year to run on his Chelsea contract, the Belgium international has failed to crack the top three for big-money moves in his position, the transfer fee valued at less than half that of his successor.
1. KEPA ARRIZABALAGA: Athletic Bilbao to Chelsea ( €80m ), 2018
2. ALISSON: Roma to Liverpool ( €72.5m ), 2018
3. GIANLUIGI BUFFON: Parma to Juventus ( €51.6m ), 2001
4. EDERSON: Benfica to Manchester City ( €40m ), 2017
5. THIBAUT COURTOIS: Chelsea to Real Madrid ( €38.8m ), 2018
6. JORDAN PICKFORD: Sunderland to Everton ( €28.5m ), 2017
7. FRANCESCO TOLDO: Fiorentina to Inter ( €28.4m ), 2001
8. MANUEL NEUER: Schalke to Bayern Munich ( €24m ), 2011
9=. DAVID DE GEA: Atletico Madrid to Manchester United ( €22m ), 2011
9=. BERND LENO: Bayer Leverkusen to Arsenal ( €22m ), 2018
