Which Premier League transfer cost more? Adjusted for inflation.
Every round shows two real Premier League transfers side by side — a player, the two clubs involved, and the year the deal happened. Your job is simple: pick the one that cost more once its fee is converted into today's money.
Get it right and your streak grows, then a new pair loads automatically. Get it wrong — or switch away from the tab mid-round — and the run ends. Your best streak is saved on this device so you can try to beat it next time.
A £15m transfer in 1996 and a £15m transfer in 2023 are not the same £15m. The purchasing power of money falls every year, so comparing historical transfer fees at face value makes recent deals look far bigger than they really were relative to their era.
Who Cost More converts every fee into 2026-equivalent pounds using UK Consumer Prices Index (CPI) data published by the Office for National Statistics. That's why a modest-looking fee from the 1990s can genuinely outrank a headline-grabbing nine-figure deal from the 2020s.
Based on the game's dataset of 200+ transfers spanning 1991 to 2025, here are the fees that convert to the highest 2026 equivalent values:
Transfer fees and years come from publicly available transfer records covering 28 Premier League clubs and over three decades of football, from Alan Shearer's British-record £15m move to Newcastle in 1996 through to fees agreed in the mid-2020s. Inflation adjustments use ONS CPI (All Items) annual averages and are intended for comparison and entertainment purposes rather than as financial data.