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Football’s annual transfers break $4bn barrier
Football’s world governing body reveal that $4.1 were spent on annual transfers in 2014.
28 Jan 2015
Football’s world governing body Fifa has announced that global annual transfer spending has broken the $4bn mark for the first time.
They’ve revealed in 2014, $4.1bn were spent, including around $90m from Real Madrid for James Rodriguez.
That’s a total increase of 2.1 per cent from 2013.
Source: Al Jazeera
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