Quiz! Can you name the top 50 winter transfers ever?

Philippe Coutinho of FC Barcelona looks on during the Group B match of the UEFA Champions League between FC Barcelona and FC Internazionale at Camp Nou on October 24, 2018 in Barcelona, Spain.
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NOW TRY Quiz! Can you name the 100 players with the highest-ever Transfermarkt market values?

The January transfer window wasn't always a thing. Brought in during the early noughties as a way to stop clubs signing players any time of year, it marked the point where we were halfway out of the dark of winter. 

So while summer is spent strategising, winter is something completely different. With no football on during the warmer months, transfer business becomes its own sport, as clubs look to meticulously plan ahead of a gruelling season. In January, however… anything goes.

Here, you'll find all kinds of signings, from the panic buys to desperately try and save a season, to those who were planned for the summer previous before the price was hiked. You'll see the players who were brought in at the end of a season in another continent and those who were shipped over to China during the football boom out there. 

Transfermarkt has provided our figures, which may have been adjusted by source and inflation. So come on: tell us who cost what when during the weirdest window of them all.

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Mark White
Content Editor

Mark White has been at on FourFourTwo since joining in January 2020, first as a staff writer before becoming content editor in 2023. An encyclopedia of football shirts and boots knowledge – both past and present – Mark has also represented FFT at both FA Cup and League Cup finals (though didn't receive a winners' medal on either occasion) and has written pieces for the mag ranging on subjects from Bobby Robson's season at Barcelona to Robinho's career. He has written cover features for the mag on Mikel Arteta and Martin Odegaard, and is assisted by his cat, Rosie, who has interned for the brand since lockdown.