8. Zlatan Ibrahimovic (PSG) – £47m
One of Sweden’s most highly rated players ever, Zlatan Ibrahimovic is the most expensive footballer of all time after transferring for fees totaling £150 million. The towering striker has proved his ability on the pitch though, winning seven league titles during a career that has spanned seven different clubs.
The biggest fee paid for him was the £55m that Barcelona paid to take him from Inter Milan.
In 2012 the powerful forward completed a lucrative £16m transfer from AC Milan to Paris, a move which saw his salary soar to an eye-watering £220,000-a-week net of tax. His salary is now thought to be second only to Samuel Eto’o.
He currently resides in Paris and his assets include properties in Malmo, Stockholm, the Swedish ski resort of Are, Milan and New York. Last summer he also bought an island on Lake Malaren, to the west of Stockholm, for £2.5m, which comes complete with 500 hectares of hunting ground.
The name Zlatan was trademarked in 2003, meaning Ibrahimovic received exclusive rights to the name for certain products, including sporting goods, clothing and shoes. He enjoys a lucrative sponsorship contract with Nike and has featured in several TV ad campaigns for them. His controversial autobiography called ‘I Am Zlatan’, was published in 2012.