Liverpool Signed 22 -year -old midfielder Florian wretz From Bayer leverkusen In a blockbuster transfer of initial £ 100 million, with £ 16m in potential add-on.

While the British transfer record is £ 106.3m Chelsey paid Benfika Sign front Ango fernandez In 2023, only the fifth player to go to Wirtz (or in) Premier League For more than £ 100m.

Although the fee of Wirtz is a long way to the world-record transfer-Namar’s £ 198M step Paris Saint Germain From Barcelona In 2017 – Any deal reaching nine figures puts heavy pressure on the players and usually, while speaking, includes the struggle to meet the expectations created by these astronomical numbers.

Here, we based the last four on how successful they have been, but also what the future is for them.

4. Ango fernandez
£ 106.8m, Chelsea from Benfika, 2023

Fernandez’s experience in Chelsea has been up and down, despite the fact that it is only 2½ years old.

Signed under Graham Potter behind 2022 World Cup win Argentina (So ​​the inflated fee that Benfika was more than £ 100m in profit from her initial £ 6M investment), she was given a restrictive role based on the first midfield, which was assigned with a recycling possession and switching play-but not really finding about the pitch or in round-scoring areas.

His situation in the team was then somewhat questioned as Potter’s permanent replacement Mauricio Pchethino (who took over after Frank Lampard’s caretaker spell) really liked it. Connor Galagher And focused on her pair Moses prisonersWhich was watching Argentina several times outside.

But under Manager Enzo Marska, things changed in 2024–25 season. In fact, several times in 2025, Fernandez has seen the best condition of blues to score a goal, proving to be very effective in the box with its run and long shots. This season, his six league strikes made him a third-top goal scorer of the club, and he has already made a net in the 2025 Club World Cup.

Life in Chelsea is easy, with a constant managerial turmoil (she is already played under four) and a handful of more than 1 billion pounds in a handful of windows, so it is not necessarily Argentina’s fault, but has never been clear as a player as a picture of Fernandez. In fact, the team has never felt that it belongs to him, so at any point it has not really felt like a £ 106.8 meter footballer.

Very few, however, there is a lot of time to get PAN out for this transfer. Conversely …

3. Jack gralish
£ 100 meters, Aston Villa To Manchester City2021

When you invest £ 100m in signing a player, you not only expect fireworks, but you hope that they will become a big part of the team for a very long time. How to gauge the career of Greelish city, then, seeing that it ends after just four uneven seasons?

29 year old Pep Guardiola’s club was released out of the World Cup squad Trying to accelerate your departure in this summer. In 2021, the city had imagined this scenario when the city broke the British transfer record to sign the Aston Villa.

Given the bets included in such an expensive deal, it is appropriate to call three of the four sessions of Grileish more shadow towards disappointment than success. He never accepted five goals in the Premier League, and played just 716 minutes in 2024–25. However, he will always be able to point out the 2022-23 campaign, in which he played an important role by winning an European triple in Man City. He was a force in the Champions League, with any player’s most shot-creating action (55) to complete the tournament and work hard for the team, while the Premier League and FA cup trophies were also raising.

This demon weather is considered as total failure in the city of Grealish, but if it is actually the end England International’s career at Etihad Stadium, he did not really justify the fee at the end. The list is ranked above Fernandez as in 2022-23, his impact is more certain than Argentina’s managed so far.

2. Declan Rice
£ 100m (Add-ors plus £ 5m), from West Ham Arsenal2023

Now we start moving towards the expected impact of £ 100m-plus player. After flying between number 6 deep-handed midfield role and a box-to-box number 8 in the career of its arsenal, the rice flourishes in the latter situation because his aggression and power often inspire the arsenal to win control in the middle. He jointly recorded at least three tackle and interception in 15 separate premiere league games in the previous season.

Rice has also become one of the top set-grind people of the league, which completes the art of the in-swinging corner for a great impact, then add free-kick goal in his game against that famous night. real Madrid Champions League Quarter Finals.

Their natural fitness levels are away from the chart: they have introduced 32 or more league games in each of the last seven sessions, often played the entire European campaigns with him, and at that time also two European championships have reached the final as a prominent player for their country.

Taking control of a big game with a durable, physically imposed, target scoring, box-to-box midfielder? This is someone you can make for the coming years.

1. Moses prisoners
Plus £ 15m in £ 100m (Add-ors), Brighton and how albian Chelsea, 2023

How many times are you ready to pay more than two clubs to sign a player? So much so that they actually enter demon dialects and go from head to head?

It was a notable position for cassoos to find themselves: Liverpool agreed to a total of £ 111m, then went to the Chelsea £ 115M, which was structured as £ 100m up and £ 15m in the potential add-on. It was a saga that lasted for most of the summer, ruined his presiden and pressured him. Ecuador The beginning of the midfielder for blues-a clearly punishment in a clear terrible cameo to lose her 3–1. West Ham United,

This shocking start is a distant memory, as the cassoad soon found his feet and from the last 18 months, he has played extraordinary football at a ridiculously consistent level, which displays a notable array of skills.

Not only the cassoo is the most vigilant tacklers and interceptors (the third-long-longer in the Premier League), he is also a less progressive passer (he is ninth for a progressive pass), is a good ball carrier and if his team needs his then he is sufficiently smart to reverse the right. He is probably the second best and most important player in Chelsea, only behind Cole Palmer,

Chelsea has already enjoyed two outstanding sessions from 23 -year -old and has a lot to look forward. Signing of young players for huge transfer fees is risk, but the opposite is that if you work outside you can benefit from their very long, successful career.

In a very close call between cassood and rice for the number 1 spot – two players who have fully created their team’s engine room – thanks to that longevity to the east edges.