Transfers of elite players have now reached eye-watering sums that simply would've been unimaginable a couple of decades ago, with the valuations of players skyrocketing in the modern era.
Indeed, football has come a long way since the first-ever footballer to be transferred happened in 1893, when Scottish striker Willie Groves moved from West Bromwich Albion to Aston Villa for £100: now, clubs are required to pay around one million times more than Groves' ground-breaking deal, with the same old clubs continuing to crop up time and time again.
