Which are the most expensive transfer signings for African stars plying their trade on the continent?
Whilst the summer transfer window has always been a blockbuster move for players to European clubs. With some of the biggest names in world football switching clubs, African clubs on the continent also made it count in the transfer market by splashing needed cash on their targets.
Spending big on a particular player in the transfer market often doesn’t guarantee instant reward on the pitch, but when they do managers often get praised for securing the right players.
Expensive signings of African clubs usually don’t attract media attention, unlike European clubs, reasons we will take you through the most expensive deals for African clubs this summer.
Most Expensive Transfer Signing In Africa
From the Sun City of South Africa to Giza’s colossal Pyramids nation of Egypt, the continent has produced some of the beautiful game’s finest players over the years…as well as some of the best.
Ibrahima Ndiaye – (Luzern – Zamalek SC, €850k)
If great form and brilliant performances are one of the traits that get a player move to a marquee club, then the Senegalese international deserves his move to Zamalek in the summer.
The Egyptian giant secured the signing of Ndiaye from Swiss side FC Luzern for a fee reported to worth €850k, following the departure of their most trusted lieutenants in Achraf Bencharki, Mohamed Abou-Gabal and Tarek Hamad.
Ndiaye was a regular during his stint at Luzern, making 112 appearances, scoring 24 goals and eight assists for ‘Die Leuchten’.
He also helped the club won the Swiss cup in 2021 scoring in the quarter finals and the final, which was the club’s first major trophy since 1992.
Samson Akinyoola – (Caracas FC – Zamalek SC, €1.2m)
Zamalek been one of the biggest, respected club on the continent, they went as far as South American to flex their muscle in the transfer market to seal the deal for Samson Akinyoola.
The Whites paid Caracas FC of Venezuela a whopping €1.2m for the signature of their 22-year old Beninese international. While at Caracas, Akinyoola instantly established himself in his debut season to become one of the club’s most important player.
Before he left for Egypt, he scored 28 goals, provided 11 assists in 67 games, won the league’s top-scorer award in his debut campaign with 18 goals and was crowned the best foreign player the same season a great feat that got top clubs vying for his signature.
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Bruno Savio – (Bolivar – Al-Ahly, €1.5m)
Whilst it is a known fact that Brazil is a soccer talent nation, however, the stark reality is that not all of their talents will have the privilege of plying their trade in mainstream Europe with the biggest clubs.
Whilst the above statement is a fact, some of these Brazilian still has that aura and talent in them to attract some of the finest team across the globe that will like to have them onboard.
Been a reputable and rich club, Al-Ahly splashed the cash in the summer to bring onboard Bruno Savio from Bolivian outfit Bolivar on a three year deal for a fee worth €1.5m having paint the Bolivian league red with goals.
Mohamed Chibi – (FAR Rabat – Pyramids, €1.8m)
Following Pyramids successful campaign in the Egyptian topflight league last season, strengthening their squad in preparation for the new campaign is no doubt the perfect thing expected of the team hierarchy.
As such the Cairo outfit went as far as the Moroccan league to seal the deal for FAR Rabat right-back Mohamed Chibi for a whopping €1.8m in the summer ahead of the new season.
Mohamed Chibi’s move from FAR Rabat to Pyramids makes him the second most expensive transfer signing for an African club this summer.
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Marcelo Allende – (Montevideo City – Mamelodi Sundowns, €2.9m)
Marcelo Allende became the most expensive summer signing for an African club when he moved from Uruguayan’s Primera Division outfit Montevideo City Torque to Sundowns for a record fee of €2.9m.
Following his move to the South Africa giant in the summer, the Chilean captain at the 2015 FIFA U17 World Cup finals already hit the ground running scoring twice in five matches across all competition for Sundowns.
Allende’s move to Sundowns was reported to be largely influenced by money, however, since joining the ‘Masandawana’ he has continuously prove critics wrong for tagging his move to Mamelodi Sundowns as a money-influenced move.
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