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Roy Keane would be worth £94m today - while Alan Shearer more expensive than Neymar

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Premier League has more than played its part in some of the most outrageous transfer deals - with the likes of Alan Shearer, Roy Keane and Stan Collymore all commanding eye-watering price tags.Newcastle United forked out a club-record fee of £15m to bring Shearer back to the northeast in the summer of 1996, whilst in previous years Nottingham Forest held out for British and English transfer records before letting Keane and Collymore leave the City Ground.When football was a millionaire's game, the creme de la creme could be bought with transfer fees of £12 million pounds.

Though the beautiful game is now run by billionaires - in the current market £12m pays for Nathan Collins from Stoke City.However, thanks to the boffins at the University of Liverpool, via The Athletic, there is now a formula for working out the current values of our favourite footballers from years gone by.

The 'today' calculator adjusts transfer fees for modern inflation by converting historic Premier League transfer prices to their equivalent present-day cost.

Their findings highlight Shearer as the most expensive football switch of all time with a whopping £221m 'today' transfer value - besting the world record of £200m set by Neymar in 2017.

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