What else could be bought for Gareth Bale money?

2,03,062 of the costliest 2014 World Cup tickets

10,49,383 of the costliest Tottenham Hotspur tickets

Neymar + Mario Götze (with £6 million to spare)

5,667 Wayne Rooney hair transplants

Tottenham Hotspur's new look midfield (Capoue, Eriksen, Lamela, Paulinho, Chadli with £10 million to spare)

Three Luka Modrics (with £6 million to spare)

The progression of world-record transfers...
After Gareth Bale's move to Real Madrid, PA Sport looks back at the historic deals that pushed the world transfer record to new levels:

£10,890u00a0David Jacku00a0(Bolton to Arsenal, 1928)

£1,42,000 Luis Suarez (Barcelona to Inter Milan, 1961)

£1.2milu00a0Giuseppe Savoldi (Bologna to Napoli, 1975)

£6.9milu00a0Diego Maradona (Barcelona to Napoli, 1984)

£10milu00a0Jean-Pierre Papin (Marseille to AC Milan, 1992)

£15milu00a0Alan Shearer (Blackburn to Newcastle, 1996)

£21.5milu00a0Denilson (Sao Paulo to Real Betis, 1998)

£32milu00a0Christian Vieri (Lazio to Inter Milan, 1999)

£46milu00a0Zinedine Zidane (Juventus to Real Madrid, 2001)

£56milu00a0Kaka (AC Milan to Real Madrid, 2009)

£80milu00a0Cristiano Ronaldo

(Manchester United to Real Madrid, 2009)u00a0