But in terms of football transfers, inflation rates have been far higher with the money from Sky, Asian markets, European competition, etc.....
Would Bale have really gone for £25,471,810.80 in 1981? (if the transfer fee was the reported £85.3m?)
Would Suarez have gone for £22,396,082.18 in...
I'm sure that we turned down a bid of about £3.5m from Everton so that we could keep him for another season, sadly he spent a lot of that season injured before finally moving to Spurs. Maybe it would have been in both his and our interest if he had moved to Everton after all.