Zinedine Zidane (2001) Juventus – Real Madrid: £46m
Fast-forward just over 10 years later and this time Juventus were receiving a world record transfer fee for their playmaker.
Real Madrid president Florentino Perez was in the midst of his first Galactico era, paying astonishing fees for the world’s greatest players, and at that time, nobody was better than Zidane.
Having already won the World Player of the Year award twice, he won it again whilst at Madrid, and also added the only major trophy he was missing from his personal collection – the European Cup.
