Chelsea spent 44 million euros to own young defender Jorrel Hato from Ajax. According to statistics from Transfermarkt, Hato is not the most expensive teen player in history.
In the summer, 2025 witnessed many excellent young talents world football joining top clubs. As the Argentine prodigy Franco Mastastuono completed the deal worth 45 million euros to Real Madrid, while some other teen talents could also move the club this summer. The 18 -year -old Brazilian, Estevao, joined Chelsea from Palmeiras and in return for the Brazilian club to earn 34 million euros. The Greek young striker of Olympiacos, Charalampos Kostoulas signed a contract with Brighton for 35 million euros …. Latest, Ajax's center -back Jorrel Hato moved to Chelsea for 44.2 million euros.
However, Hato is not the most expensive teenage player in the history of world football, standing at the number one position as Superstar Kylian Mbappe, who moved from Monaco to PSG for 180 million euros in the summer of 2018. This is still the second most expensive deal of all time, only after the PSG case buying Neymar in the previous summer for 222 million Euro. The day he was still at the prince's park yard, Mbappe showed that he deserved a huge transfer fee when he became the most scorer player in the club history, but the Paris team had to let him leave in the form of free summer transfer last year.
In the second position is Joao Felix. He came to Atletico from Benfica for 127.2 million euros in 2019. The third expensive teenage transfer was when Juventus signed a contract with Matthijs de Ligt from Ajax in 2019, after he led Ajax as the captain to the Champions League semi -finals. The fourth rank is the Chelsea deal buying Romeo Lavia from Southampton for 62.1 million euros in the summer of 2023.
The fifth is when Manchester United signed a contract with Leny Yoro priced at 62 million euros from Lille last summer. Seventh and eighth ranked are PSG deals last summer. The first is a contract worth 59.9 million euros for midfielder Joao Neves from Benfica, followed by a 50 million euro contract for Desire Doue from Stade Rennes. The duo has been playing very well in PSG. They all contributed greatly to help PSG win the Champions League for the first time and win the FIFA Club World Cup runner -up.
