Five Man Utd transfers would be in 10 most expensive Premier League signings ever in index-adjusted rankings

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Wayne Rooney’s famous move from Everton to Manchester United in 2004 would narrowly miss out on a place in the top 10 most expensive British signings in one adjusted index.

Football finance expert Kieran Maguire and professor Jason Laws established the ‘Laws-Maguire Index’ to reveal a ‘true’ measurement of purchasing power.

The index is not restricted to inflation and Kieran Maguire and Jason Laws, who is a professor at the University of Liverpool, have adjusted the prices of past transfers.

Wayne Rooney’s transfer to Old Trafford cost £25.6m in 2004, but the Maguire and Laws-developed index showed the fee would now be worth £140.2m in the market.

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Wayne Rooney falls short of the top 10 priciest Premier League transfers in Kieran Maguire and Jason Laws’ index

Manchester United’s eye-watering £89m move to sign Paul Pogba in 2016 ranked at No 10 after it was adjusted to a £141.6m transfer fee in the index’s findings.

Posting on LinkedIn, Kieran Maguire revealed that United’s famous move for Dwight Yorke would rank in ninth place after the adjusted fee came out to be £144.7m.

The Red Devils originally paid a then-club record fee of £12.6m to sign United legend Dwight Yorke from Aston Villa in 1998 under Sir Alex Ferguson’s reign.

Yorke’s famed United strike partner Andy Cole was ahead of him, with the 1994 transfer fee of £7m now being adjusted to a whopping £153.8m transfer fee.

Andy Cole came at No 7 in the top 10 rankings, while Rio Ferdinand and Juan Sebastian Veron were the only two ex-Man Utd players to crack the top five.

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How much would Rio Ferdinand and Juan Sebastian Veron be worth in today’s market under the adjusted index measurement?

Juan Sebastian Veron’s £28.1m move to Man Utd in 2001 would now translate to an eye-watering £178.5m transfer package, according to Maguire and Laws’ findings.

Only Rio Ferdinand would eclipse Veron’s adjusted fee for a United player, with the ex-England player’s £33.3m fee in 2002 now becoming £198.5m in the index table.

Veron ranked third in the table and Ferdinand came second, while Alan Shearer came out on top of the pile for his stunning 1996 transfer to Newcastle.