Here, we take a look at Rangers’ most expensive signings ever made which includes the club’s record transfer fee of £12m paid in 2000.
The top 10 most expensive Rangers transfers has a rather different look to it than that of many other clubs, with the majority of the Ibrox club’s signings coming across the late 1990s and early 2000s. Only one incoming from the last 15 years makes the list.
Rangers News takes you through the club’s most expensive players ever purchased.
Rangers most expensive signings
In joint-sixth place, we have Ronald de Boer, Barry Ferguson, Arthur Numan, Bert Konterman, Cyriel Dessers and Kemar Roofe who all each cost Rangers a reported £4.5m.
De Boer was signed from Barcelona in 2000, Ferguson returned for his second Govan spell in 2005 from Blackburn Rovers, Numan was recruited in 1998 from PSV and Feyenoord sold Konterman to Rangers in 2000.
Next up are Andrei Kanchelskis and Giovanni van Bronckhorst. The former moved to Ibrox from Fiorentina in July 1998 for £5.5m, while Van Bronckhorst reportedly cost the same fee from Dutch giants Feyenoord – his transfer went through on the same month.
Spaniard and current Arsenal boss Mikel Arteta comes next, alongside Brazilian striker Danilo. Arteta joined Rangers from Barcelona in June 2002 for a reported £6m and spent two seasons in Glasgow before heading back to Spain to join Real Sociedad.
Danilo was signed by Michael Beale in the summer of 2023 and cost the same reported figure from Dutch side Feyenoord.
Michael Ball and Ryan Kent come in at joint-second on the all-time list for Rangers. The Govan giants signed Ball from Everton for £6.5m in August 2001 and the latter moved to Ibrox from the other big club in Merseyside, Liverpool, for the same initial fee 18 years later in September 2019.
The record transfer fee Rangers have paid for a player dwarfs all the others on this list, though.
Rangers stumped up a reported £12m to sign Tore André Flo from Chelsea in November 2000 and he went on to score 35 goals in 68 appearances for the club.
He would return to England in 2002 but his value had depreciated considerably by that point, with Sunderland paying just £6.75m to secure his services.
Rangers record transfer arrivals in full
- Tore Andre Flo – £12m
- Ryan Kent – £6.5m
- Michael Ball – £6.5m
- Danilo – £6m
- Mikel Arteta – £6m
- Andrei Kanchelskis – £5.5m
- Giovanni van Bronckhorst – £5.5m
- Ronald de Boer – £4.5m
- Barry Ferguson – £4.5m
- Cyriel Dessers – £4.5m
- Arthur Numan – £4.5m
- Kemar Roofe – £4.5m
- Bert Konterman – £4.5m
