Ranking all 15 previous £40m-plus intra-Premier League transfers

With Kalvin Phillips on his way to Manchester City, Raheem Sterling apparently set for Chelsea and the Brazilian trio of Raphinha, Richarlison and Gabriel Jesus all at various stages of progress on their own much-touted moves this looks like being a bumper summer for big-money intra-Premier League transfers.

But how have previous such moves worked out for the players involved? We’ve ranked every previous such move between Premier League clubs and set an entirely arbitrary ‘big-money’ benchmark of £40m and then inevitably had to guess in the margins because undisclosed fees are the scourge of the industry and more importantly this kind of feature.

Ultimately, though, this doesn’t matter too much here because we’re ranking the success of the move rather than the size of the fee, which is but one small factor in our very scientific calculations and we have to cut things off somewhere. Got it? Grand, let’s crack on.14) Nathan Ake Might actually have been a smidge under £40m, it depends which reported fee you choose to believe and probably involves a bit of exchange-rate chicanery to sneak it over the £40m cut-off, but we’ve done so as a reminder that even City can get this wrong because, as you’ll see later on in this list, they generally get this quite sickeningly right.

, but it’s been a great one, especially in that three-year period from 2017 to 2020 when everything clicked and the goals really flowed.City may dominate the upper reaches of this list but they have to concede top spot to Liverpool on this occasion thanks to their expensive but transformative acquisition of Virgil van Dijk four years ago. His impact was instant. Back in the first half of the 2017/18 season, Liverpool were an excellent and entertaining side but they were defensively vulnerable.

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