8 Insane Arjen Robben Stats No One Talks About | News, Scores, Highlights, Stats, and Rumors
Sophia Aguilar
Published Mar 24, 2026
No player in the history of the Bundesliga has cost more in transfer fees than Arjen Robben. The player's fragility early in his career made him expendable to teams that moved on and built their plans around other players when he was unable to perform.
But he was still immensely talented and therefore commanded significant transfer fees when sold.
Per Transfermarkt, an 18-year-old Robben left his youth club, Groningen, for PSV Eindhoven for a fee of €4.3 million in 2002. After two seasons at PSV, Robben was then sold to Chelsea for €18 million.
He was often injured and Roman Abramovich had other plans, so the Dutchman was offloaded to Real Madrid for €36 million. And similarly, Los Blancos found him surplus to requirements in the summer of 2009, when they swapped eventual Champions League winners Robben and Wesley Sneijder, among others, to finance the purchases of Cristiano Ronaldo, Kaka, Xabi Alonso and more.
No other player in Bundesliga history has cost so much. Mesut Ozil's transfers have totaled €73 million, Klaas-Jan Huntelaar €65.9 million and Diego €57 million, for example.
