Neymar close set World record transfers as £198m move to PSG

Neymar close set World record transfers

With Barcelona forward Neymar edging closer to a £198m switch to Paris Saint-Germain, we've charted every record-breaking transfer since 1992...

Talks over what would be a world record move are at an advanced stage and Neymar was given permission by Barcelona to miss training on Wednesday morning.

His fee would mark a 110 per cent rise from Paul Pogba's landmark £93.25m transfer from Juventus to Manchester United last summer.

That would make the deal the biggest hike since 1932, when Bernabe Ferreyra joined River Plate for £23,000 to break David Jack's £10,890 move to Arsenal four years earlier.

Neymar's reported £198m move to PSG would mark a 110 per cent rise from the previous world record fee

We chart the meteoric rise of world record transfer fees from 1992 to present day...

aul Pogba, £93.25m (2016)

Jose Mourinho made his first marquee signing as Manchester United boss by smashing the world-record transfer fee to re-sign Juventus midfielder Paul Pogba for £93.25m in 2016.

The France international had left Old Trafford on a free transfer four years earlier but won the Europa League in his first season back at Old Trafford to guarantee Champions League football this term.

Neymar, £198m (2017)

However, Pogba's record fee is set to be eclipsed within a year if PSG sign Neymar for £198m, having joined Barcelona as a 21-year-old in 2013.

Despite winning two La Liga titles and the Champions League in 2014/15, a training ground bust-up in July intensified rumours of a move away from the Nou Camp to Paris, where he would join Brazil team-mates Dani Alves, Thiago Silva, Marquinhos and Lucas Moura.