{"id":1198467,"date":"2022-09-04T22:49:02","date_gmt":"2022-09-04T22:49:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/09\/04\/most-expensive-centre-backs-in-footballs-history-after-fofanas-chelsea-move\/"},"modified":"2022-09-04T22:49:02","modified_gmt":"2022-09-04T22:49:02","slug":"most-expensive-centre-backs-in-footballs-history-after-fofanas-chelsea-move","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/09\/04\/most-expensive-centre-backs-in-footballs-history-after-fofanas-chelsea-move\/","title":{"rendered":"Most Expensive Centre-backs in Football&#8217;s History After Fofana&#8217;s Chelsea Move"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<article>\n<p>\u00a0\u00a0Centre-backs have become more important in football in the last decade. They are no longer in high demand because of their goal-prevention abilities alone. Most of the top-class centre-backs in football right now are centre-backs who are comfortable with the ball at their feet. Those kinds of centre-backs are mostly called ball-playing centre-backs.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0\u00a0This revolution has also added to the value of centre-backs in the transfer market as we have seen in the last few windows. Harry Maguire, who is a decent ball-playing centre-back was signed by Manchester United from Leicester City for \u00a378.3 million. This made him the most expensive centre-back in football\u2019s history.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0\u00a0Some centre-backs also moved as a result of big money deals in the just concluded transfer window. Mathijs De Ligt was sold to Bayern Munich from Juventus for \u00a360.3 million while Lisandro Martinez was signed by Manchester United from Ajax for \u00a351.6 million.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0\u00a0Chelsea was able to complete the signing of long-term target, Wesley Fofana from Leicester City after forking out \u00a374.3 million for him. The former Leicester City centre-back is currently the fourth most expensive centre-back in football\u2019s history.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0\u00a0Without further ado, below are the full details of the top ten most expensive centre-backs in football\u2019s history:<\/p>\n<p><strong><span class=\"ql-cursor\">\ufeff<\/span><\/strong><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/57ba9fd2184a4a4b8529b27fe8f2249d\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Content created and supplied by: DynamicSports (via  Opera<br \/>News )<\/p>\n<\/article>\n<p class=\"copyright hide\">\n<span class=\"content\">    ,  .   ,     .       () , , , , , , , , .      \/ ,  and\/or  .     ,  , and\/or  ,      and\/or     <\/span><br \/><span class=\"see-more\"\/>\n<\/p>\n<section class=\"tags\">\nBayern Munich<br \/>Harry Maguire<br \/>Leicester City<br \/>Mathijs De Ligt<br \/>Wesley Fofana<br \/><\/section>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0\u00a0Centre-backs have become more important in football in the last decade. They are no longer in high demand because of their goal-prevention abilities alone. Most of the top-class centre-backs in football right now are centre-backs who are comfortable with the ball at their feet. Those kinds of centre-backs are mostly called ball-playing centre-backs.\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0This revolution [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1198468,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3888],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1198467","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nigeria-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1198467","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1198467"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1198467\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1198467"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1198467"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1198467"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}