Shearer at £237m? Where Anderson deal ranks with inflation

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Elliot Anderson becomes the third-most expensive signing in Premier League history after Alexander Isak and Florian Wirtz with his £116m transfer from Nottingham Forest to Manchester City.But according to new rankings in which historic fees are adjusted to the purchasing power of clubs today, the midfielder is in fact only the 31st-most expensive addition of the Premier League era. To show you this content, we need your permission to use cookies.

You can use the buttons below to amend your preferences to enable Datawrapper cookies or to allow those cookies just once. His £50m transfer from Liverpool to Chelsea would be worth £177m today, according to the Index.Dennis Bergkamp, Andy Cole, Andriy Shevchenko, Dwight Yorke and Paul Pogba are next on the list, meaning half of the players in the top 10 are Manchester United signings.Ferdinand features twice in the top 15, with his £18m transfer from West Ham to Leeds in 2001, two years before his move to Old Trafford, calculated to be worth £140m today.

Image: Rio Ferdinand's transfers from West Ham to Leeds and Leeds to Man Utd are worth a combined £339m today according to the Laws-Maguire Index Along with Isak, the only other current Premier League players in the top 20 are Jack Grealish, Moises Caicedo and Enzo Fernandez. So, while transfer fees keep increasing, the Laws-Maguire Index suggests spending relative to resources was actually more extravagant in the Premier League's earlier years.