Top Ten: Football transfers that shocked the world

The transfer window in football is the most exciting time in the lives of players, managers, fans and football clubs alike. A sensational transfer or a link of a player from one club to another is a piece of news that all journalists around the world are waiting to pounce upon.

Besides the goals, the tricks, the skills, the legends, these are the deals that have defined the history of the beautiful game. They can make or break a player, a manager, a club, and everyone has their own intriguing back stories.

Let’s have a look at the top ten transfers that shocked the football world:

10) Mo Johnston

Rangers had not signed a Catholic player for over 100 years, until Mo Johnston crossed Glasgow’s subterranean divide.

Johnston was a former Celtic star, who had helped them to the double with his goals three years earlier, before he went to Nantes in France.  The love for Scottish football, however, could not keep him for long in France for long, and after a spell with the French club, he came back at Parkhead, where he announced at a press conference to join Celtic again.

Back in Glasgow, however, at the last minute, Johnston signed for Rangers. He scored 46 goals in two years, and in the process, helped Rangers start a run of nine successive Scottish titles. Graeme Souness, the Rangers manager, had a vision for the future, and he didn’t let the religious or cultural barrier come in front of him to get his prized asset.