Top 5 Most Expensive Defenders In Football History

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Defenders play a very important role in any Football team. They help shield the goalkeeper from rampaging attackers, and it's a well known fact that a goalkeeper is only as good as his defenders, because when the defenders do their job well, then the goalkeeper should be well protected from conceding goals.

Due to how important it is to have a strong defense, football teams around world are, are always ready to splash the cash on any good defender, and some of the worlds most expensive players have been defenders.

Let's check out the the five most expensive defenders in football history below

Jacob Harry Maguire Leicester City To Manchester United - £80M
Joško Gvardiol RB Leipzig To Manchester City- £77.5M
Virgil van Dijk Southampton To Liverpool- £75M
Wesley Tidjan Fofana Leicester City To Chelsea-£70M
Lucas François Bernard Hernandez - Atletico Madrid To Bayern Munich £68M

Only one of them has successfully justified the huge price tag, we all know the story of the guy at the top of the list