History of World Record Transfers

[Mr Maroon]

Suppose in fairness 1961 was a different era; continental Europe was a long way away, and a player moving for 240,000,000 Lira (how much is that anyway?) wouldn't have had anywhere near as much attention as today. So Greaves was the first £100,000 player as far as the English League was concerned. You can reproduce that centrism if you want to give a feel for the world back then.

£106,842.50 according to this.

[pineapple stu]

It was a rhetorical question, indicating the Brits mulling over strange foreign currencies and in the end deciding to ignore them.

(It was L250m, and the OP equated that to £152k)

[Neish]

Real looking to smash their own record yet again if their £80 million bid for Ronaldo goes though.