Diego Armando Maradona: His most expensive transfers and what a crack you could buy today with that money

Diego Armando Maradona is considered a legend of world football. For many, the best player of all time, who did what no one has been able to match on a field. This October 30, one more year of the birth of the ’10’ is celebrated, reports, memories and even the authorized documentary have come out ‘Maradona, Blessed Dream’.

The documentary tells the story authorized by the same Diego Armando Maradona. Before passing away, the ‘Pelusa’ gave the go-ahead for this project to come to light. Without a doubt, one of the most sublime moments in the Argentine’s life was when he broke the transfer market back in the 80s.

Barcelona and Napoli they also broke the transfer marking to pay the token of Diego Armando Maradona. Millions of dollars had to be invested for these teams to have the “Pibe de Oro”.

Today football has totally changed. Transfers are no longer paid as in past decades. The prices of the players and especially the stars border astronomical figures. In this note we review which players could be bought with the money it cost Diego Armando Maradona at the time.

-MARADONA BREAKED THE MARKET-

Diego Armando Maradona At the beginning of the 80s, it entered the top of the most expensive transfers of all time. Boca Juniors decided to pay 1.44 million dollars to Argentina Juniors to have the best player in all of Argentina.

The ‘Fluff’ had a fleeting step in Boca Juniors where it showed all its quality. The best teams started looking for him. Barcelona was the most interested. The Spanish press tells that the leaders of the ‘culé’ team had to negotiate more than once with Maradona to accept the offer.

On June 4, 1982, everyone was surprised by this signing. Diego Armando Maradona He was the man of fashion all over the world and Barcelona already had him in its ranks. Its price scandalized all of Spain.

“It was the first big signing in which I intervened and to achieve it I made more trips than Aerolineas Argentinas. The operation had been closed in 1981 but was vetoed by a representative of the Argentine dictatorship, Admiral Carlos Alberto Lacoste. He told me that the country needed him for your World Cup ”, said Josep María Minguella, responsible for the success of the operation.

After his convulsed stay in Barcelona, Naples started negotiating with Diego Armando Maradona. Various stories have emerged from these conversations between the two parties. The truth is that the Argentine accepted the offer of the Italian team on July 5, 1984.

“They put me on a motorcycle, we went to Forcella … I arrived and the table was ready to eat. I had a rifle here next to me. They seemed like Los Untocables, Al Capone… Carmine (the boss) told me: ‘Any problem you have is also our problem’. And he told me he was protecting us in Naples. For me it was all new, like a movie ”, explained Diego Maradona during the film.

-WHAT PLAYERS COULD BUY NOW-

The transfer market has changes every certain year. Today for teams to have the great stars of world football, they are forced to wait for their contracts to end to negotiate directly with them or pay more than 100 million dollars, the average price of the value of the passes.

If we do a very quick review, with an average of 10 million dollars. You could buy from Zlatan Ibrahimovic who has a markup value of 6 million dollars, also to Oliver Giroud who also dropped to $ 5 million.

You could even buy the Colombian James Rodriguez for which Al Rayyan paid just over $ 9 million. Former Real Madrid did not accept AC Milan’s offer because it was offering him only $ 6 million.

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