The PSG most expensive sales list used to be a short and slightly embarrassing document. For most of the Qatar Sports Investments era, Paris Saint-Germain bought at the top of the market and sold at the bottom of it, letting World Cup winners walk out of the Parc des Princes for nothing rather than cashing in a year early.
That has changed. The summer of 2026 alone produced four of the ten biggest fees the club has ever banked, and a new outright record at the top. Here is the full ranking of the biggest sales in PSG’s history, with the caveats that any French transfer list needs.
A note on the numbers
Transfer fees are almost never confirmed to the euro. Clubs release a headline figure, agents brief a different one, and add-ons tied to appearances, trophies and sell-on clauses can move a deal by tens of millions years after the signature. Sterling and euro reporting of the same deal routinely disagree as well, which is why the same transfer can be a £120m story in England and a €140m story in France.
Every figure below is the widely reported fee rather than an official club statement, and the order reflects those reported totals. PSG have never published a definitive list of their own.
PSG most expensive sales: the top 10
- Bradley Barcola — Liverpool, 2026, reported at up to €140m. The deadline-day deal that reset the club’s ceiling. Barcola went to Anfield on 1 September 2026 after a summer-long pursuit, with the fee reported at up to €140m including add-ons — comfortably the largest sum PSG have ever received for a player, and one paid for a forward the club developed into a starter rather than one it bought ready-made. The agreement was struck after months of back-and-forth over the price.
- Neymar — Al-Hilal, 2023, reported at around €90m. Six years after arriving for a world-record €222m, Neymar left for the Saudi Pro League in a deal reported at roughly €90m. For a long time it stood as the biggest cheque PSG had ever cashed, and it remains the biggest paid for a player already the wrong side of 30 when he left.
- Gonçalo Ramos — AC Milan, 2026, €74m. The Portuguese striker joined Milan in the 2026 window for a reported €74m, a striking return on a player signed from Benfica three years earlier and never quite trusted as the undisputed number nine. It was one of the summer’s cleanest pieces of business.
- Ibrahim Mbaye — Aston Villa, 2026, €55m. Confirmed on 2 September 2026, and the purest academy profit on this list. Mbaye came through the Titi Parisiens pathway, so PSG never paid a transfer fee for him in the first place.
- Xavi Simons — RB Leipzig, 2025, reported in the €50m range. A more complicated one. Simons left PSG for PSV on a free in 2022, was bought back for a nominal fee in 2023, spent two seasons on loan in Germany and was then sold permanently to Leipzig for a reported fee in the €50m bracket. A rare example of PSG’s recruitment department correcting its own mistake at a profit.
- Manuel Ugarte — Manchester United, 2024, reported at around €50m. Signed from Sporting CP in 2023 and moved on barely a year later once Luis Enrique settled on Vitinha and João Neves in midfield. United paid a reported £42m plus add-ons.
- Marco Verratti — Al-Arabi, 2023, reported at around €45m. Eleven years, hundreds of appearances and a genuine club legend, sold to Qatar in the same summer as Neymar. PSG got a substantial fee for a 30-year-old midfielder, which at the time counted as an achievement in itself.
- Randal Kolo Muani — Juventus, 2026, €38m. Made permanent in the 2026 window after a loan spell in Turin, closing out a stay in Paris that never took off.
- Lee Kang-in — Atlético Madrid, 2026, €35m. The South Korean left for Spain in the same window, another squad player converted into meaningful cash rather than allowed to run down a contract.
- David Luiz — Chelsea, 2016, reported at around €35m. The oldest entry in the top 10 and, for years, one of the very few occasions PSG resold a senior player for something close to what they had paid.
What the 2026 window changed
Four of the ten deals above were done in a single summer. Barcola, Mbaye, Ramos, Kolo Muani and Lee Kang-in were all moved on between June and 1 September 2026, alongside Renato Sanches’ mutually terminated contract, and the money went back out again on Maghnes Akliouche, Ferran Torres, Mika Godts and Lucas Digne.
That is a structurally different club from the one that spent €222m on a single player. The CIES Football Observatory, whose transfer research is the closest thing the sport has to an independent ledger, had PSG running the best transfer balance in world football off the back of it. The underlying methodology is published by the CIES Football Observatory.
The pattern is now recognisable: sell one high-value forward at peak market price, reinvest across several positions, and keep the academy pipeline producing players who cost nothing and sell for €55m. It is the mirror image of the approach that produced the club’s most expensive signings.
The ones that left for nothing
Any honest version of this list has to acknowledge the fees PSG never collected. Kylian Mbappé left for Real Madrid on a free transfer in 2024 at the end of his contract. Thiago Silva went to Chelsea for nothing in 2020, Ángel Di María to Juventus for nothing in 2022, and Adrien Rabiot to the same club on a free in 2019 after a contract standoff.
Add those four together at anything like market value and the top of this ranking would look very different. The 2026 window was, among other things, the club finally refusing to repeat that.
Who is PSG’s record sale?
Bradley Barcola, on the reported figures. His deadline-day move to Liverpool in September 2026 was reported at up to €140m, ahead of Neymar’s Al-Hilal exit at around €90m. Given that Barcola arrived from Lyon for a fraction of that and left at 24, it is also arguably the single best piece of trading PSG have done under Qatar Sports Investments.
For the current picture in Paris, our full PSG squad list for 2026/27 has every first-team player and squad number, and the 2026 transfer round-up covers every in and out from the window that produced four of the sales above.
