The 10 most expensive players in Manchester City
Bayern Munich's prolific Pole has gone from strength to strength since arriving at the club seven summers ago. The 33-year-old continues to age like fine wine, recently racking up his 300th goal for the club in all competitions.
Lewandowski has played a huge role in Bayern's domestic and European dominance, scoring 210 goals in the Bundesliga for them and 60 in the Champions League. Last season, he scored 41 times to break the late Gerd Muller's long-standing record of most goals (40) in a Bundesliga season.
Bayern Munich - most valuable player
Julian Nagelsmann's men have had a good start to their 2021-22 campaign. They look good for a record-extending tenth consecutive Bundesliga title and a deep run in the Champions League. Bayern are joint-top of the league table after seven games, while they've scored eight unanswered goals in two games in the Champions League.
Man City biggest sales
After Sheikh Mansour purchased the club in August 2008, Manchester City's fortunes were changed forever, with the influx of money ensuring they were able to attract a higher calibre of players than ever before.
The £38 million signing of Robinho just days into Mansour's reign set things in motion, and since then he spent well over £1 billion investing into the club.
Arsenal's most expensive signing
Alexis Sanchez – £36m
Oh, take me back to the time Alexis wore an Arsenal shirt. The Chilean scored 80 goals and assisted 45 in his 166 games for the Gunners. He needed no time to introduce himself and did it all on the pitch. The Alexis and Mesut Özil connection was mouth-watering and was the last great partnership of the Arsène Wenger era.
In retrospect, £36m for the winger was a bargain and probably only possible as Lionel Messi and Neymar provided more than enough fire power from the wings at Barcelona, who also brought in Luis Suarez the same summer they sold Alexis.
Unfortunately he wanted bigger things and, ironically, in one of the worst swap deals in recent memory, was traded for Manchester United’s Henrikh Mkhitaryan with six months left on his contract. Both probably regretted that.
2) Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang – £55m
Wenger’s final signing as Arsenal manager – and the club’s current captain – joined in January 2018. Since then, the Gabonese has shouldered considerable expectations and shown his worth on the pitch by banging in the goals.
In his first full season in the Premier League he, alongside Liverpool’s Sadio Mane, won the Golden Boot. The year after he was one goal short of Jamie Vardy at the top. And we can’t forget Aubameyang scoring all four goals that helped Arsenal beat Man City and Chelsea to lift the FA Cup in 2020.
The less said about last season the better.