Szoboszlai became the most expensive Hungarian footballer! Are you sure?

Dominik Szoboszlai has entered the level (Photo: TheSixYard)

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1. SZOBOSZLAI DOMINIK (from Salzburg to Leipzig in 2020 for € 20 million)

It is not a coincidence that Dominik Szoboszlai is the most fashionable soccer player in Central and Eastern Europe today, who is still young enough to buy a top team in the near future and is already routine enough to be a marksman in a superior team. Even the huge amount given out to older fans is unusual, but this summer 53 (fifty-three) players switched clubs for twenty million euros or more, and we weren’t even talking about the dozen footballers who would skip this option with multiple options and bonuses. border transfer fee. If you have a limit: Szoboszlai was born in the fall of 2000, he started playing football in Videoton in Hungary, but he also appeared in Phoenix Gold (here also with his father) and MTK, in the spring of 2017 the Austrians bought him from Phoenix for 500,000 euros.

Jujak failed to make a lasting impression in Moscow (Photo: AFP)

2. BALÁZS JUDJÁK (from Anzsi Mahachkala to Dinamo Moscow in 2012, for € 19 million, including current inflation of € 20.67 million)

Balázs Dzsudzsák’s anise adventure was very dusty at the time, but the first insult to him, who had been offered a salary of 1 billion guilders a year and the same amount of cash upfront for a job he hadn’t dreamed of in previous years, .. Juják’s career in Mahachkala was very short: he won eight championships and a broken collarbone as a class. Dinamo, who are looking for a winged winger, were added to Moscow’s wish list anyway, and in January 2012 they said yes to the eleven (Soviet) champion team. As he said after his recent transfer, “whoever my club change fails, I want it to fail as much as I do.” Fact: a patinated club put him 19 million euros, and starting from Hungary (until 2020) only he managed to get it. After 112 bets, 13 goals and 30 assists, Juják advanced from Moscow, he did not win a trophy with Dinamo; was closer to that in 2012, but the Muscovites were knocked out of Rubin Kazan in the cup final.

3. BALÁZS JUDJÁK (from PSV to Anzsi Mahachskala, in 2011, for € 14 million, including current inflation of € 15.65 million)

Samuel Eto’o. Roberto Carlos. Suleiman Kerimov, The Dagestan Crusade. And Balázs Dzsudzsák. Anzsi’s short detour is probably one of the most divisive and controversial Hungarian transfers, which was decisive in his extreme career; we can probably say this already. Later, serious Juja experts discovered that no serious offer had been received from a serious European club other than Lazio.

Starting from Nyírlugos, Juják became one of the stars of the Dutch league at PSV at the age of 24, perhaps playing football in the best form of his life, so it was surprising that while the news was out of a number of top-tier applicants, our compatriot chose Anzsi Mahachkala. The concrete offer of the large traditional troops was delayed, and the Eindhovenians received the applicant for the herb (Dagestan) because they did not care where the millions came from. Anzsi’s rise turned out to be a life of begging, but the ever-sinking club has also entered Hungarian football history. Later, Bursaspor paid 1.6 million euros and al-Vahda 3 million euros for Juja.

Juventus also wanted to meet Détár in their ranks (Photo: AFP)

4. LAJOS DÉTÁRI (from Eintracht Frankfurt and Budapest Honvéd to Olympiakosz, in 1988, for 18 million West German marks, converted into euros for 8.7 million euros, including current inflation of 15.84 million euros)

The transfer of Lajos Détári is not a simple matter and, at times, the former brilliant midfielder was not a “simple matter” either. Recall that we were still in the final stages of socialism, when in 1987 he traveled from the Budapest Army to the Eintracht in the FRG in Frankfurt, for 3.6 million marks from West Germany, and after an excellent season for 18 million marks for the Greek Olympic Piraeus. Juventus promised only 12 million, but the situation was complicated by the fact that at that time the Hungarians could only borrow from the West, Frankfurt practically gave up the loan season: in the end the Greeks paid 11.1 million to the Germans and 6.9 million to the OTSH, that is, the National Office of Physical Education and Sports and the town of Kispest. In euros, according to Transfermarkt, Frankfurt paid 1.8 million in 1987 to the Hungarian boy, which caught the attention of Monaco and could have shared 8.7 million later; this last amount was staggeringly large, but we’ll write more about that later!

Many still blame the player’s father-in-law and former coach, Imre Komora, for the Greek adventure, saying that he spoke of “Dömé” about the change, but the player, a German association floating in debt and a record-breaking Hungarian association, also supported the change. .

5. ÁDÁM SZALAI (from Mainz to Schalke, in 2013, for € 8 million, including current inflation of € 8.5.5 million)

Schalke, who are aiming for the Champions League group, announced at the end of June 2013 that they had signed the central defender from the Hungarian team from Mainz. To Mainz “Rocktriójának” (André Schürrle, Ádám Szalai, Lewis Holtby) The Hungarian member signed a four-year contract with Gelsenkirchen, and Schalke put eight million euros on the table for his playing rights. Got it: In August, Szalai’s double played a crucial role in helping Schalke advance against Greek PAOK in BL qualifier and qualify for the main table.

Szalai has been tested on various teams in Germany (Photo: AFP)

6. ÁDÁM SZALAI (from Schalke to Hoffenheim in 2014 for 6 million euros, including inflation mat 6.33 million)

From blue to blue, but already cheaper: Hoffenheim bought Adam Szalai from his contract in the summer of 2014 and paid six million euros for the forward who scored 9 goals in 40 betting games in the Schalke jersey last season . Szalai also went to BL with the Sinsheimers, and fans still hold him in high regard; this was also indicated by the fact that last fall, a banner was thanked the “football battle”. Of his German teams, Szalai played the most bets in Hoffenheim (113) and was correct 25 times. In 2016, it was loaned for half a year for 600,000 euros to Mainz, where it definitively signed in 2019, now under the rule of Bosman. Previously, Real Madrid bought it from VfB Stuttgart for half a million euros and loaned it to Mainz for 200,000 and loaned it for 600,000.

NOBODY MORE THAN FIVE MILLION

According to the Transfermarkt ranking, no more than five million euros were awarded to other Hungarian footballers. For Roland Sallai Freiburg has spent 4.5 million euros two years ago, For Tamás Kádár four million at the beginning of 2020 in Santung Luneng, For Nikolics Nemanja At the beginning of 2017, 3 million from the Chicago Fire. Similarly, al-Vahda gave 3 million for Juja’s playing rights, making the winger in three places in the top 10.

He sacrificed the same amount Péter Gulácsi RB Leipzig to Salzburg in 2015 (this is an exceptional transfer in terms of price / value!) OR For Szabolcs Huszti formerly Zenit. The amount delivered by the goalkeeper, including inflation, was 3.17 million today, and for the Hussis, the Russians today referred to 3.46 million.

Roland Sallai earned as much during his career as Huszti (6.8 million euros), Kádár earns 8.3 million in the “compound” – Krisztián Németh With 7.3 million, and Liverpool went from MTK in 2007 for three million. That amount is 3.63 million euros today.

During socialism, Barcelona promised a million dollars to borrow from Détári, with a much larger purchase option, Tibor Nyilasi would have been borrowed for the same amount for half a year at the time of Bernd Schuster’s injury. The attacker ended up lending Austria Wien for a loan of $ 300,000, but a Hungarian record of HUF 15 million at the time (according to internet calculators, the amount is EUR 650,000 today). In the last days of socialism, they were probably the ones who paid the most for Kálmán Kovács after Détári, the forward left Honvéd there for half a million euros for the sake of Auxerre. For the three loans from László Bálint, Ferencváros had previously been able to collect a total of $ 70,000, or more precisely, share it with the state.