Barzagli to Vidić: Ten of a best Jan signings
Jaap Stam (Willem II to PSV, 1996)
Stam was usually during Willem II for 6 months though done such an clarity that PSV, seeking to finish 3 seasons though silverware, swooped. The 23-year-old helped them to a Dutch Cup in his initial debate and a Eredivisie pretension in his second before fasten Manchester United in 1998 for €18m – a afterwards record for a defender.
Dejan Stanković (Lazio to Inter, 2004)
Financial problems meant Lazio could not exclude Inter’s offer of €4m and inducements; it was fast apparent a Nerazzurri had got a bargain. Stanković dynamic himself as a organisation fans’ favourite by scoring from a dilemma opposite rivals AC Milan within weeks of arriving. He went on to win 5 Scudettos and a 2010 UEFA Champions League.
Nemanja Vidić (Spartak Moskva to Manchester United, 2006)
Sir Alex Ferguson kick foe from Liverpool and Fiorentina to pointer a Serbian defender and a means of his dynamic office was immediately evident. There was no throwing Chelsea in 2005/06, though Vidić’s partnership with Rio Ferdinand supposing a bedrock for an epoch of prevalence alongside another attainment in winter 2006, Patrice Evra.
Klaas-Jan Huntelaar (Heerenveen to Ajax, 2006)
This €9m signing was a double manoeuvre for Ajax: a many earnest striker in Dutch football and a actor PSV once had on their books to boot. Huntelaar scored 105 goals in 136 outings for a bar before leaving, 3 winters later, for Real Madrid. He ordered a €27m fee.
Marcelo (Fluminense to Real Madrid, 2007)
“A pearl that half of Europe wanted,” boss Ramón Calderón pronounced of Marcelo’s attainment aged 18. Over a decade on and 4 Liga titles and 3 UEFA Champions League winners’ medals later, that clarity of compensation has usually amplified. Another merger from South America that winter, Gonzalo HiguaÃn, also valid a bit of a catch.
Andrea Barzagli (Wolfsburg to Juventus, 2011)
The best €300,000 Juve ever spent. Barzagli was not a finish different – he had 25 caps to his name and helped Wolfsburg to a 2008/09 Bundesliga pretension – though his career had stalled. The Bianconeri weren’t put off, drafting him into a defensive section alongside Leonardo Bonucci, Giorgio Chiellini and Gianluigi Buffon. They have won 6 unbroken titles.
Luis Suárez (Ajax to Liverpool, 2011)
The Reds squandered no time spending a €57.5m from Fernando Torres’s sale to Chelsea, bringing in Andy Carroll (€40.25m) and Suárez (€26.5m). Carroll managed 11 goals in 58 games before vacating a year and a half later. Suárez fared rather improved with 82 in 133 outings, including 31 as Liverpool fell only brief of a 2013/14 Premier League title. It took Barcelona €82.3m to prize him away.
Ivan Rakitić (Schalke to Sevilla, 2011)
The Swiss-born Croatian general went on to turn a initial unfamiliar captain of a Andalusian outfit given Diego Maradona and led them to a initial of their ancestral three-way of UEFA Europa League titles in 2014 before he too assimilated Barcelona.
Juanfran (Osasuna to Atlético Madrid, 2011)
A wily winger with Navarran side Osasuna, Juanfran was reinvented as a full-back during a Calderón and has been Mr Reliable on a right of Atlético’s fearsome counterclaim for a past 7 years. Not bad for a male who was once on Real Madrid’s books.
Nemanja Matić (Chelsea to Benfica, 2011)
A correct coup. Signed as partial of a understanding that took David Luiz to Stamford Bridge, a Serbian was immediately converted from a playmaker into a defensive midfielder and was during a heart of a side that fell only brief of UEFA Europa League excellence in 2013 – denied by a Blues. He ordered a €25m price when Chelsea re-signed him a following year.
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