City’s entries in all-time transfer list

At this time last year, Manchester City signed two players who found themselves in the record charts of the British football transfers – David Silva and James Milner. They joined the Eastlands club from Valencia and Aston Villa respectively.

In January this year, City added another player to the list following the transfer of Edin Dzeko from Wolfsburg (see table below).

Other items in the English game that created more records last season:

Attacker Steven Fletcher joins Wolves from Burnley for a club equalling record fee of £6.5m.

Striker Mauro Boselli, of Argen-tina, cost Wigan a club record fee of £6.5m from Estudiantes.

Fabio Capello has said that he called time on England most-capped player, David Beckham.

Attacker Kenwyn Jones costs Stoke a club record fee of £8m for his capture from Sunderland.

Aiden McGeady, of Celtic, becomes the most expensive export for Scottish football, joining Spartak Moscow for £9.5m.

Paul Scholes, of Manchester United, hit his career 150th goal in the 2-2 draw at Fulham.

Man. City’s 3-0 home win over Liverpool is the Blues’ biggest league triumph over the Reds since 1937.

Ghana forward Asamoah Gyan signs for Sunderland for a club record fee of £13.1m from Rennes.

Blackpool spend a record fee of £325,000 for the capture of Wy-combe forward Matt Phillips.

Deadly Defoe

Tottenham striker Jermaine Defoe scores a hat-trick in the 4-1 England triumph in a European Champion-ship qualifier to become the first player to score a treble for the national team since Alan Shearer in 1999, at Wembley.

Roy Hodgson becomes the first Liverpool manager to win his opening five European games after the 4-1 victory over Steaua Bucharest at Anfield in the Europa League.

The negative start by Liverpool of five points from the same number of matches is the worst league start in 18 years.

Chelsea’s opening goal, by Florent Malouda, in the first half of their home Premier League fixture with Blackpool (4-1) becomes a significant one as Chelsea chalk up the 100th occasion they had scored in all competitions in the year 2010.

In Spain, Man. United topple Valencia 1-0 for their only second win in 19 visits to Spanish shores.

Birmingham City’s 13-month un-beaten home record, spanning 18 matches, comes to a halt in 0-2 upset to Everton.

When former England man Sol Campbell came on on as a substitute for Newcastle in the 1-2 loss at Manchester City, he became the second player to appear in every Premier League season since its introduction in 1992. The other one is Ryan Giggs, of Man. United.

Manchester United insist that the club are supportive of UEFA’s proposed financial fair-play regulations and safe from the threat of exclusion from European competitions des-pite announcing club record losses of £83.6 million for the last financial year.

England qualify for the UEFA U-21 finals after a 0-0 draw in Romania. This is a record third successive European Championship for Stuart Pearce’s side.

Emanuel Adebayor becomes the first Manchester City player to score a hat-trick in Europe in the 3-1 win at Eastlands over Lech Poznan that have put them top of Europa League Group A.

Chelsea goalkeeper Petr Cech equals a club clean sheet record of nine consecutive home games without conceding a goal, set in 1927, in the 1-0 win over Fulham.

Jose Mourinho, now at Real Madrid, has been inducted in the League Manager Association’s Hall of Fame, joining Alex Ferguson, Matt Busby, Bob Paisley and Arsene Wenger.

Dimitar Berbatov, of Manchester United, becomes the fourth player since the inception of the Premier League in 1992-93 to score five goals in one game after Andy Cole, Alan Shearer and Jermaine Defoe, as United trim Blackburn 7-1.

The win over Blackburn at Old Trafford has also seen Manchester United set a club record of 15 league games undefeated from the start of season, beating Ron Atkinson’s side run in 1985-86.

Record signings

Cristiano Ronaldo (Man. United to Real Madrid, 2009) - £80m
Fernando Torres (Liverpool to Chelsea, 2011) - £50m
Andy Carroll (Newcastle to Liverpool, 2011) - £35m
Robinho (Real Madrid to Manchester City, 2008) - £32.5m
Edin Dzeko (Wolfsburg to Manchester City, 2011) - £32m
Dimitar Berbatov (Tottenham to Man. United, 2008) - £30.8m
Andriy Shevchenko (Milan to Chelsea, 2006) - £30.8m
Xabi Alonso (Liverpool to Real Madrid. 2009) - £30m
Rio Ferdinand (Leeds to Manchester United, 2002) - £29.1m
Juan S. Veron (Lazio to Manchester United, 2001) - £28.1m
Wayne Rooney (Everton to Manchester United, 2004) - £27m
Marc Overmars (Arsenal to Barcelona, 2000) - £25m
Carlos Tevez (Man. United to Man. City, 2009) - £25m
Emanuel Adebayor (Arsenal to Man. City, 2009) - £25m
Arjen Robben (Real Madrid to Chelsea) 2007) - £24.5m
Yaya Toure (Barcelona to Manchester City, 2000) - £24.5m
David Silva (Valencia to Manchester City, 2010) - £24.4m
Michael Essien (Lyon to Chelsea, 2005) - £24.4m
David Beckham (Man. United to Real Madrid, 2003) - £23.3m
Didier Drogba (Marseille to Chelsea, 2003) - £23.2m
James Milner (Aston Villa to Man. City, 2010) - £23m
Luiz Suarez (Ajax to Liverpool, 2011) - £22.7m
Nicolas Anelka (Arsenal to Real Madrid, 1999) - £22.3m
Fernando Torres (Atl. Madrid to Liverpool, 2007) - £22m
Joleon Lescott (Everton to Man. City, 2009) - £22m
David Luiz (Benfica to Chelsea, 2011) - £21.3m
Shaun Wright Phillips (Man. City to Chelsea, 2005) - £21m
Lassana Diarra (Portsmouth to Real Madrid, 2008) - £20m
Alberto Aquiliani (Roma to Liverpool, 2009) - £20m