Premier League era, transfer spending has rocketed far above the rate of normal inflation. The current transfer record is roughly 25 times more than it was back in 1992, with ever increasing television revenues as well as an influx of takeovers by billionaire businessmen and Gulf states the reasons why.The English transfer record has been broken 15 times since the summer of 1992, but a huge price tag has proven to be no guarantee of success.Two men, Alan Shearer and Rio Ferdinand, have twice being the subject of a record fee.
But who are all the names to have the title? And what happened to them next? Daily Star Sport takes a look... Southampton to Blackburn, £3.6m, 1992 Prior to 1992, the English transfer record was £2.9million, set when.
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