With a total fee of 65 million euros, rookie Martin Zubimendi ranked fourth in the top of the most expensive deals in the history of Arsenal transfer.
On July 6, Arsenal officially announced the Martin Zubimendi deal. The Spanish midfielder signed a 5 -year contract with the Emirates Stadium. This is a very important deal of the Gunners in the context that they have just broke up with midfielders Jorginho and Thomas Partey.
To own Zubimendi's signature, Arsenal had to spend 51 million pounds (equivalent to 60 million euros). This is also the contract release fee between the Spanish midfielder and Real Sociedad.
But according to Transfermarkt, the total fee that Arsenal had to spend for Zubimendi was 65 million euros. According to statistics, the Spanish midfielder has risen to the fourth place in the top 10 largest investment deals of the North London team.
So far, Arsenal's record is still Declan Rice – who was bought by Arsenal from West Ham in the summer of 2023 for a fee of 116.6 million euros. Rice broke the previous record set by Nicolas Pepe in 2019 (80 million euros). 3rd in the list is the Kai Havertz deal (75 million euros).
In the top 10 most expensive deals in Arsenal's transfer history, many other expensive contracts such as Aubameyang (63.75 million euros), Ben White (58.5 million euros) or Lacazette (53 million euros) …
Notably, in the top 10 most expensive deals in Arsenal history, there were 6 deals recruited by Gunners under coach Mikel Arteta including Declan Rice, Kai Havertz, Martin Zubimendi, Ben White, Gabriel Jesus and Thomas Partey.
Since Arteta's day to lead Arsenal, the club has brought many expensive contracts, such as Riccardo Calafiori (45 million euros), Jurrien Timber (40 million euros), Martin Odegaard, Oleksandr Zinchenko, Fabio Vieira (35 million euros), Mikel Merino (32 million euros) or David Raya (31.9 million euro) … Second 3 consecutive seasons in the Premier League.
