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The Guardian - UK
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Niall McVeigh

Money well spent: 12 of the best value transfer deals this summer

Christian Pulisic Daniel Peretz Lionel Messi Artem Dovbyk Daichi Kamada Teddy Teuma Ylber Ramadani Abde Ezzalzouli Kevin Volland Manuel Neuer
Kevin Volland, Christian Pulisic, Pepelu, Bénie Traoré and Teddy Teuma.
Clockwise from top left: Kevin Volland, Christian Pulisic, Pepelu, Bénie Traoré and Teddy Teuma. Composite: Getty, Shutterstock

Christian Pulisic (Chelsea to Milan, £18.9m)

Todd Boehly has now poured more than £1bn into Chelsea, but it wasn’t just their big spending that caught the eye this summer. Boehly conducted a fire sale of unwanted first-team players; several went to Saudi Arabia, while Christian Pulisic and Ruben Loftus-Cheek joined Milan. Signed for £57.6m from Dortmund in 2019, Pulisic was sold for a maximum €22m (£18.9m) – this figure feels at least £10m short. Given the Rossoneri’s desire to develop their brand in the US, his presence alone could be worth the cut-price fee. As it happens, he announced his arrival with a superb goal at Bologna.

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