Welcome, everybody to Soccer one-O-1.

My name is Taylor Rockwell, and this week we're taking a lengthy look at transfer fees, specifically the growth of record transfer fees.

From a record-breaking 100 pounds at 1893 to the 200 million pound transfer of Namar in 2017, things have changed, and that's putting it deliberately mildly.

How has the record transfer fee evolved?

What roles have European powers played in that growth?

How have numbers in the women's game been evolving?

All that and much, much, much more today.

To help me get through all of these facts and figures is a man who I'm assuming

has a Charlie Kelly-esque spread of papers and graphics and red yarn on his wall,

tracking all of this information.

It's Graham Ruthven.

Hi, Graham.

Hello, Taylor.

I don't have the Charlie Kelly wall of conspiracy, but I do always like to have a prop for

one-to-one episodes.

Of course, last week I had my scarf for the Scarfs episode.

And so today, I have just out of camera shot, I've got my wads of cash of millions of dollars to represent

the world record transfer fee. That's lovely. I'm glad that it's just off frame so I can't see it,

but I will assume it's their breaking bad style. Like, is it on a pallet? Is it just a big stack

that you sometimes lay on? It's actually just coins like Scrooge McDuck. It's a room of coins. I'd just like to swim in it from time to time.

Now, Graham, I'd firstly like to thank you for suggesting a topic yesterday afternoon that could

itself fill several volumes.

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