Dusan Vlahovic celebrates with Juventus
As the January transfer window approaches Serie AHere’s a look back at the most expensive incoming players in division history.
Dusan Vlahovic remains The most expensive January transfer in historyIn terms of both incoming and outgoing players. Juventus are expected to pay Fiorentina back €70m in 2022 and a fee of up to €10m in January 2025.
Juventus also made the second-most expensive January signing in Serie A history by signing Dejan Kulusevski in January 2022.
Milan, who paid around €35 million to sign Lucas Paqueta from Flamengo in 2019, completed the top three most expensive January signings in Serie A.
Several of the top 10 most expensive January transfers took place 20 years ago, with one occurring in the 1990s.
They are Clarence Seedorf, who moved to Inter from Real Madrid, although technically in December 1999, Adriano, who moved to Inter from Parma in 2004, and Hidetoshi Nakata, who joined Roma from Perugia in the winter of 2000.
Top 10 most expensive Serie A January transfers
*Incoming signings only
- Dusan Vlahovic: Fiorentina – Juventus (€70m + up to €10m bonus) January 22, 2022.
- Dejan Kulusevski: Atalanta – Juventus (€35m + up to €9m bonus) January 2, 2020.
- Lucas Paqueta: Flamengo – Milan (€35m) January 3, 2019.
- Krzysztof Piatek: Genoa – Milan (€35m) January 23, 2019.
- Nicolo Rovella: Genoa – Juventus (€18m + up to €2m bonus, plus Manolo Portanova and Elia Petrelli), January 28, 2021.
- Clarence Seedorf: Real Madrid – Inter (approx. 24 million euros) December 24, 1999.
- Adriano: Parma – Inter (€23.4m) January 21, 2004.
- Christian Eriksen: Tottenham – Inter (€20m) January 28, 2020.
- Stanislav Lobotka: Celta Vigo – Napoli (€20m) January 15, 2020.
- Hidetoshi Nakata: Perugia – Roma (approx €20m) January 2020.
