Top 5 most expensive goalkeepers in the world right now

A goalkeeper's role is vital in football, yet their transfer fees remain lower compared to the expensive spending on top attackers and other outfield players. A skilled goalkeeper can decide wins or losses, and is capable of determining a team's trophy contention or mid-table finish. In recent times, goalkeepers' transfer fees have also been on the rise.

Gianluigi Buffon held the record as the world's most expensive goalkeeper for 17 years after a £32.6 million move to Juventus from Parma in 2001. However, that record has been broken several times in the recent past as the value of a quality shot-stopper remains ever-increasing in today's inflated market.

On that note, let's take a look at the five most expensive goalkeepers in world football today.

The fifth most expensive goalkeeper in the world is Manchester City's Ederson Moraes. The Brazilian goalkeeper joined the Citizens from Benfica in 2017 for a fee of £34.7 million.

Pep Guardiola's ideology of possession-based football is easier to implement with a goalkeeper who is good with his feet and can pick out long-range passes during breaks in plays. Ederson excels as a ball-playing goalkeeper, contributing significantly for Manchester City's continental treble last season.

He holds a personal record of three consecutive Premier League Golden Glove awards and has kept 104 clean sheets in 217 league games for the Cityzens.

Thibaut Courtois, a top goalkeeper, reigned as one of the finest and costliest globally for some time. The Belgian famously won the 2016-17 Premier League Golden Glove at Chelsea and the 2018 World Cup Golden Glove with Belgium, helping his nation finish third in the tournament. He then moved from Chelsea to Real Madrid in 2018 for £35 million,