I couldn't believe that Fulham had got Van Der Sar in the first place - he was clearly still world class as his time at Manchester United showed.

"Where he famously refused to celebrate against his former club" I was crying 😂

2021 Giroud should've been at least mentioned in my opinion: signed by Milan for just 2,5m euros at the age of 34,he went on to win the Scudetto as his team's top scorer and decisive player, scored like 5 goals in the world cup and now being in the UCL semi final

It's amazing that Alfie's most expensive pick was Andy Robertson for £8m through out the 20 years of transfers. I'd figure he would've certainly exceed £10m after the 2017 season but somehow he hasn't! A reminder that a bargain is still possible even in today's market of mediocre players going for £50+ million. (This video is a great inspiration for all Football Manager lovers out there ❤). EDIT: Khvara was bought for 10m, I wrote this during the 21/22 season part.

Séamus Coleman kept Killian Mbappe in his pocket at the start of the week. Incredible career still performing strong at 34!

Honourable mention: James Tavernier cost rangers £300k in 2015 and has gone on to make over 400 appearances, scoring 101 goals from right back and was EL top scorer in the 2021/22 campaign.

Honorable Mentions: 2009/10: BRYAN RUIZ to Twente Only €5,5M and being the best player and top scorer while leading the team to their only Eredivisie title. 2012/13: KEYLOR NAVAS to Levante Paid only €150K and sold him for €10M to Real Madrid. He saved Levante from relegation and was awarded best GK of La Liga

As a Villa fan, I still pinch myself that we signed John McGinn for £2.5m, went up to £3m when we got promoted. Especially considering the dire financial situation we were in at the time.

11:19 "subject to add-ons not only did Tottenham reportedly not end up paying the full 10 million pound price tag maybe there were some add-ons relating to Trophies" the shithousery is wild.

I created an all-time XI with no overlap of international careers - no player was active for their national team at the same time as any other player. Here it is (with the years of each player's international career listed in parentheses): 🇩🇪 Oliver Kahn (1995 - 2006) 🇩🇪 Manfred Kaltz (1975 - 1983), 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Bob Crompton (1902 - 1914), 🇧🇷 Thiago Silva (2008 - ), 🇩🇪 Andreas Brehme (1984 - 1994) 🇺🇾 José Leandro Andrade (1923 - 1930), 🇮🇹 Ugo Locatelli (1936 - 1940) 🇮🇹 Valentino Mazzola (1942 - March 1949) 🇧🇷 Pelé (1957 - 1971), 🇧🇷 Neco (1917 - 1922), 🇭🇺 Zoltán Czibor (May 1949 - 1956) Manager: 🇨🇿 Karel Petrů (1931 - 1935) If you choose to ignore the position of manager, Ugo Locatelli can be replaced in midfield by 🇦🇷 Antonio Sastre (1933 - 1941). How about making a video featuring an XI you created using this limitation (and without using uncapped players)?

I know the research would be heavy But the Dani Alves almost to Liverpool point made me wonder about an All Almost Prem XI

I enjoy how every Adu mention comes with its own topically-related quip.

I genuinely believe that, as an everton fan, that seamus Coleman is the greatest pound for pound signing in premier league and maybe even football history. 60000 pounds for an absolute club legend that everyone loves who locked that right back position down for 12 years. 60 thousand pounds. 60 grand.

The mention for Michu was not enough. His goals propelled Swansea to a league cup, a succesful Europa league campaign and comfortably in the PL. For £2m he was an incredible bargain.

As a Napoli fan I hope we can keep him as well. Love the fact that you hope we keep him and Victor. I hope we can keep playing the way we are playing in the future. Great video! Thanks for sharing and I hope all is well! Go Tigers!

A year after Celtic signed Henrik Larsson for £650k they signed Ĺubomir Moravčík for £330k. Just shy of a million pounds for two of the best players to have played for the club over the last 50 years.

2015/2016 could also go to casemiro who cost Madrid just 7.5 million euros, who went on to become one of the greatest CDMs of all time

Not sure if you've done this one yet but what about the best and worst use of club record sales. Like how well Liverpool used the Coutinho sale to rebuild their squad.

Can you please do a video "Why is football in East Africa so weak compared to West Africa?"

Absolutely love these vids mate, early 2000s football was the best and some of these names are proper nostalgic for me lol

Hi Alfie, could you do a video about the worst debuts ever.. you could mention the likes of Joao Félix at Chelsea and Woodgate at RM. It would be cool to see if anybody had a debut that bad it had a detrimental effect on their whole careers..

Kaoru Mitoma "has a university degree and wrote his thesis on dribbling." 😂 I would love to read that thesis. This video must have taken a really long time to research. Thank you! (Edit: typo)

Pedri to Barca for 5 million is an honorable mention.

It would be a huge shame if Napoli are picked apart in the summer because they really have set rhe football world alight this season and are genuine contenders to win the CL imo and if you look at their side of the draw there's definitely a decent possibility of them winning it outright

Players who are shocking for their club but extremely amazing for their country. I’ll help you get started with the 7. Harry Maguire.

I said that about Robertson before watching the show you have picked a great bit of emformation. You have done a great job mate some of the players in the mix is brilliant nice one thanks for the upload ❤ it mate ❤from Ireland

If I remember correctly, David Luiz was sold to Chelsea by Benfica for 25 m + Matic. What a deal!

I feel like Real Madrid paying £25M for 24yo Toni Kroos should've been here at least as a mention

What makes the Falcao transfer to United more hilarious is that they loaned chicharito to Real Madrid in which he was just playing bench but practically scored every time he played not to mention score a pivotal goal to send Madrid to semifinals in the champions league whilst FlopCow did nothing

Hey Alfie! Long time fan here, would love to see a video on football conglomerates like city group and 777. On that note, im a Bahia fan, recently acquired by the city group for 180 million pounds, and its pronnounced “bah-EE-ah”. Cheers!

In 21/22 Feyenoord brought in Fredrik Aursnes for only 450k from Molde and at the end of the season sold him for 13m to Benfica, excluding sell-on fee, which will certainly happen when I read how well he is performing for Benfica as well from the freaking left flank as a cdm. Brilliant player

a documentary on the afc Wimbledon on the nine promotions in eleven years, how they’re a fan own club and how they have a stadium in plough lane now. The story of they lost the club, how the F A allowed that and won’t allow that anymore. How they were very close to moving to ireland How they went up the English football leagues. It would be a good documentary video if you can do this. #thepeopleschannel

Azpilicueta for 7 million from Marseille is definitely up there. Won literally everything it had to offer at club level.

In 2010-11 Bournemouth signed Marc Pugh for £100k and Harry Arter for £4k. Both played over 200 times for the club from league 1 to the premier league.

Could you make a top 7 next generations for national teams? I think it might make for an interesting video cheers! 👍🏼

Delighted to see Evan Ferguson getting a mention, I watched his debut for my local club Bohemians against Chelsea and even at 14 you could see how good he was and nearly got himself a goal.

Great video!! You should do the same video but in the opposite direction. Expensive flops. Like Pogba for an example Keep on the good work on videos 💪

alfie great video, my romanian grandad just asked me 'who is this guy that you listen to every few days' and i went on a tangent explaining your videos, he seemed more intrigued then when i usually speak to him about 'my silly internet things', i wanted to ask you if you have like a docs with transcripts of your videos or something, or more specifically your documentaries, as id like to set up a text to speech in romanian so he could potentially gain only a small percentage of Sir Alfies great football intellect. Cheers

I don't even watch that much football anymore, but always got time for Alfie and HITC 7s! Up the people's channel🙏🏽

Thank you ❤️ can we have a video about Maltese Football please?

2012-13 was absurd between all those honorable mentions to the point one of the players you missed Aritz Aduriz, had a footballing inflation cost and international footballing career that looks more like what if you merged Jens Lehmann and Jamie Vardy into one (20 Caps for Spain all after age 31 for the low cost of 2.5 million euros with 4 million maximum with add-ons). Edit: In addition, the late blooming Aduriz has more La Liga goals than Alan Shearer has Premier League goals.

Hey Alfie, could you do a video on what a United Ireland FA and or national team would look like/line up, etc. Ireland’s national rugby team is all-Ireland. The whole thing is really interesting and I think it would be a good video. There was a proposal recently (I am from the US, so I am not sure exactly when it was) about a combined national team. Love the vids, Alfie. Keep up the good work!

That pronounciation Kvicha Kvaratskhelia had me in stitches, dude didn't even try hard enough

Excellent research mate. Aren’t you Ivo Graham.? If not I do apologise. All the same. Spot On Mate. Nice One.👍⚽️👀

'Maybe there were some add-ons relating to trophy's there' 😂😂😂

The 7 best signings from foreign lower leagues. Such signings as Kanté to Leicester or Mateta to Mainz. Would be really interesting to see more than these two from the top of my head.

Great video

Elliott was deadly for motherwell before his move to Hull. Definitely a fan favourite in claret and Amber. Hull got a great deal

I remember thinking at the time “£1m for a non-league player, Leicester are mad!”

No way you missed Ronald Araujo...Barcelona literally signed him for 1.7+3.5 mill. That is the definition of Bargain. From Uruguay to the best center back in the world. He needs a mention 10000000% and is 10 times the bargain Buendia is

Tbh 23 M for Dani Alves at that age is a solid bargain. Considering everything he went on to achieve. Greatest Right back of all time for me, unfortunately who's legacy is now being tainted by the recent incidents.

Kim min jae for about 2 million pounds would've been a good shout

First time I've seen Norwich in a HITC Sevens video 🎉. Buendia is one of the best players I've seen in a Norwich shirt, we all miss the days of prime Pukki / Buendia / Cantwell and Farke 😢

For the current season - Dennis Huseinbasic. Bought from the fourth tier of German football for barely 50 Thousand Euros and now becoming a regular for Cologne. Kvaradona deserves all the praise but this is a far stronger bargain imo.

Payet at 10.7 mill for West Ham should have had a shout to be on here. Absolute bargain for what he gave us.

Do a video on what teams footballers supported growing up.

I'm sorry but 2014/15 has to be Lewandowski joining Bayern Munich from Dortmund.. who turned into one of the greatest players in German football and among the most lethal strikers in world football for his entire spell at Bayern.. and it was a "FREE TRANSFER"... he is easily the greatest bargain signing of all time.. won everything there, a definite Balon d'or winner in 2020.. broke multiple scoring records and still profited Bayern on his sale to Barcelone this season...

could you do a top 7 players of all time for smaller nations with not as well known football history? Like South Africa or Israel or Ecuador?

12:10 David Luiz was sold for 25M£ plus Matic to Benfica. 2 and a half years later Matic was back at The Bridge for another 25M£.

I’m old enough to remember Trevor Francis as the first 1M pound signing in English football back in 1979. That was a really big deal then. It pales in comparison to the money changing hands today. An expat watching in S Florida.

As a Juventus fan I appreciate you mentioning the Barzagli signing, however I feel like the Inter Milan signing of Eto'o for free + cashing in 46 million in exchange for Ibra in 2009-10 also deserves a mention. that signing was crucial for Inter to win the treble that season. Actually, there are lots of transfers that deserve mention that were not mentioned, but I understand it's impossible to account for everything in a youtube video.

Indonesia were removed from hosting U20 WC that is scheduled for May 2023. Maybe make a video of tournaments relocated due to non football reasons?

Alfie you missed one of the biggest bargains of all time in Kolo Muani. Came on a free transfer is currently projected at 65m on transfermarkt, no way he goes for under 100m. And as redditors will tell you, he was free.

The Robertson deal is an even bigger bargain since Liverpool got most of the transfer fee back when hull signed Kevin Stewart in the same window

18-19 Gnabry to Bayern. Only €8 mil, after scoring 11 with at least 1-2 assists for my team Werder Bremen at 21. According to Transfermarkt he’s worth €65 now

Do a younger vs older XI family edition? both brothers and sons/fathers combined so an older team could both have Eden Hazard and Peter Schmeichel then the other would have Thorgan Hazard and Kasper Schmeichel

Ahh yes “Kweecha Guarasvelia”

2012/2013 best valued signing for me is coutinho. Signed for 8.5m pound, sold for 140m pound

For those of us who obtain more information visually, it would be great if you added the transfer amounts in text as well 😊

we need a video on Mitoma's thesis immediately. Come one Alfie get started to mastering the Japanese language.

Stuart Elliot was a class player , had a wand of a left foot, a bounce in his run, and could leap like a salmon. Had the pleasure of a season ticket or 2 while Elliot was playing. Stuart Green was also pretty good for a couple years.🐯

10+ years later I still can't believe that we(Panathinaikos) preferred signing Govu over Lewandowski... .

Update : You can also add Liverpool's purchase of Alexis Mac Allister to your collection too.😊

"Maybe there were some addons related to trophies..." You're a monster, Alfie.

Genuinely could have had 4 successive leicester players - Huth for 3m is a huge argument for 14/15, since his arrival turned the tide from bottom of the table and going straight back down into staying up comfortably before being a rock at the back for the title win.

Thank you for giving Everton players recognition in this

Silly question: what were the top 7 for transfer profits per club? i.e: most money made by a club via sales in a single season?

I couldn't help but chuckle when Kagawa was mentioned alongside Lewandowski, as back in 2011 one of Polish journalists said that according to football experts Lewy is nobody compared to Kagawa, as he is a true talent. As funny as it is, it was kinda the truth then

Tommy bloody Forecast - he'd actually make quite a good video I think, he's the Carlos Kaiser of English football. I mean, unlike Kaiser, Forecast did actually play for a few of the clubs who made the mistake of signing him, but still. They soon wished he hadn't...

The second I saw Martinelli played I knew he is going to be a very talented player. I am thrilled he signed a new deal with Arsenal.

Konte replacing the cambiasso , made me sound like rory jennings on about haaland or hanson on about winning nothing with kids . My words were he wont be able replace that talent if he had anyrhing about him someone would of snapped him up by now , oh i wrong i was

Ferguson's signings were always to the point. Even with the current price tags he would find bargains and would never sign overpriced average players like Antony, Maguire etc

15:20 I remember when one of Polish journalists compared the transfers of both Lewandowski and Kagawa and indicated how great player Kagawa is and how bad Lewandowski is compared to him. Famously said “I know Robert Lewandowski” beautifully turned against him 🤫

What you fail to mention about David Luiz sale to Chelsea was that he was sold for €25M plus Matic,Matic was then sold years later for €25M also to Chelsea.

For 18-19 ronald araujo has to get a shout as barca bought him for 1.7 mil with 3.5 in variables. (dont know if he counts tho) and pedri for 19-20 who only cost 5 mil + variables besides that great vid

Alfie you make my morning commutes very nice

Good video, but in the 07/08 season Edin Dzeko should have been in the honorable mention, clearly better deal than Banes and Luiz. He was bought by Wolfsburg for 4M euros, he won them the Bundesliga title next season and then he was transfered to ManCity for 37M euros

When you said Evan Ferguson might break Premier League's scoring record, I actually thought it's serious opinion, then I heard 15 Ballon D'or 🤣🤣

I remember watching Robertson at United thinking he had potential, couldn’t believe it when I watched his rise. Out of that squad I thought Ryan Gauld would go on to be the biggest success

Man, the way he said "Joeliton" cracked me up.

It'd be nice to see the prices adjusted for inflation

I am once again asking for a video about Algeria's unofficial FLN team (1958-1962)

2015-2016 Frenkie de Jong. From Willem II to Ajax for a whopping 1 euro

Willy Gnoto for 5 mil is a bargain, for Italian international. Definitely worth a lot more now

Out of you range, but, Pippo Inzaghi to Atalanta from Parma, 90k and ended up being Capocannieri.

As a Liverpool fan wish we had of signed Dani Alves

Harry Maguire 15 mil from Hull to Leicester. They got a world record fee for a defender and got two good seasons out of him

Can you do one on best free transfers now?

Van der Sar's move to Man United has to be top 10 all time in career-saving transfers

Can you please do a video of highest paid premier league manager