Danilo the fourth most expensive full-back ever... Luke Shaw is still No.1

New Real Madrid
signing Danilo is
the fourth most
expensive full-
back in history
following the blockbuster deal
struck with Porto.
The Brazil international sealed a
€31.5 million move to the
Santiago Bernabeu on Tuesday
and will join his new club when
the transfer window re-opens in
the summer.
That figure is the fourth highest
ever paid for a full-back, with
Manchester United's Luke Shaw
still the most expensive player
ever in his role.
The Englishman moved to Old
Trafford from Southampton this
summer for €37.5m, but has
failed to live up to his price-tag
so far and has struggled for form
and fitness.
France legend Lilian Thuram is
second after Juventus used the
money they recouped from
Zinedine Zidane's 2001 world
record transfer to Real Madrid to
buy the Parma defender for
€36m. He spent five years in
Turin and won four on-field
Scudetti. He later joined
Barcelona.
In third place is current Barca
star Dani Alves, who Danilo had
been described as a successor to.
The Blaugrana splashed out a
whopping €35.5m for the Sevilla
wing-back in 2008 but he has
been worth every penny,
winning four league titles and
two Champions Leagues.
Rounding off the top five is
another Madrid man, Fabio
Coentrao. Madrid paid Benfica
€30m for the Portuguese left
back in 2011 but he has had a
mixed spell in Spain so far and
has often played second fiddle to
Marcelo.
Danilo was voted as only the
fifth-best right-back in the world
in a poll by Goal readers - one
place behind future Madrid team-
mate and direct first-team
competitor Dani Carvajal.
Bayern Munich captain Philipp
Lahm came top of our poll with a
whopping 43.85 per cent of the
votes, with Chelsea's Branislav
Ivanovic a distant second.

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