List of Manchester United F.C. records and statistics
Progression of record fee paid

List of Manchester United F.C. records and statistics

Section Title: Progression of record fee paid
Table Section Text: None

Date	Player	Bought from	Fee

January 1900	England Gilbert Godsmark	Ashford	£40

January 1903	Scotland Alex Bell	Ayr Parkhouse	£700

July 1910	England Leslie Hofton	Glossop	£1,000

March 1914	England George Hunter	Chelsea	£1,300

September 1920	Scotland Tom Miller	Liverpool	£2,000

November 1921	Scotland Neil McBain	Ayr United	£6,000

February 1938	England Jack Smith	Newcastle United	£6,500

March 1949	Scotland John Downie	Bradford Park Avenue	£18,000

March 1953	England Tommy Taylor	Barnsley	£29,999

September 1958	England Albert Quixall	Sheffield Wednesday	£45,000

August 1962	Scotland Denis Law	Torino	£110,000

August 1968	Scotland Willie Morgan	Burnley	£117,000

February 1972	Scotland Martin Buchan	Aberdeen	£125,000

March 1972	England Ian Storey-Moore	Nottingham Forest	£200,000

January 1978	Scotland Joe Jordan	Leeds United	£350,000

February 1978	Scotland Gordon McQueen	Leeds United	£495,000

August 1979	England Ray Wilkins	Chelsea	£825,000

October 1980	England Garry Birtles	Nottingham Forest	£1,250,000

October 1981	England Bryan Robson	West Bromwich Albion	£1,500,000

June 1988	Wales Mark Hughes	Barcelona	£1,800,000

August 1989	England Gary Pallister	Middlesbrough	£2,300,000

July 1993	Republic of Ireland Roy Keane	Nottingham Forest	£3,750,000

January 1995	England Andy Cole	Newcastle United	£7,000,000

July 1998	Netherlands Jaap Stam	PSV Eindhoven	£10,750,000

August 1998	Trinidad and Tobago Dwight Yorke	Aston Villa	£12,600,000

June 2001	Netherlands Ruud van Nistelrooy	PSV Eindhoven	£19,000,000

July 2001	Argentina Juan Sebastián Verón	Lazio	£28,100,000

July 2002	England Rio Ferdinand	Leeds United	£29,300,000

September 2008	Bulgaria Dimitar Berbatov	Tottenham Hotspur	£30,750,000

January 2014	Spain Juan Mata	Chelsea	£37,100,000

August 2014	Argentina Ángel Di María	Real Madrid	£59,700,000

August 2016	France Paul Pogba	Juventus	£89,300,000

Sentence(s)

Manchester United made their first £100,000 signing in August 1962 with the transfer of Denis Law from Torino for £110,000.

final_sentence: Manchester United made their first £100,000 signing in August 1962 with the transfer of Denis Law from Torino for £110,000.