Atletico Madrid signed Porto centre-back Felipe Monteiro on Tuesday, who has become the most expensive defender in the club's history.
The Brazilian's contract will last until 2022 as Los Rojiblancos completed the move for 20 million euros, outdoing the 16m euros spent as Atletico brought back Filipe Luis from Chelsea and signed Sime Vrsaljko a year later.
Stefan Savic follows with a 12m euro transfer fee, while Atletico agreed a deal with PSV Eindhoven to sign Santiago Arias for 11m euros last summer.
Guilherme Siqueira, John Heitinga, Diego Godin and Silvio complete the top 10 of Los Rojiblancos' most expensive defenders.
Godin will depart the club this summer along with Filipe Luis, Lucas Hernandez and Juanfran, and Atletico are expected to invest more money to strengthen their backline.
The runners-up in LaLiga Santander may well break the record they've set with Felipe in the same summer as they still have gaps at right-back, centre-back and left-back.
Felipe is expected to be officially presented by the club after July 4.
AbhijaiSingh
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Our defence is still better
Exactly, he's lost it
AbhijaiSingh
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so you see that we can have the best defence in the world even without expensive players
Exactly
AbhijaiSingh
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what a joke 20 million is the highest they pay in 2019[Crylaugh][Crylaugh][Crylaugh]
Still they hadel Gimenez Godin and at Barcelona Messi Xavi Iniesta Puyol Sergio Roberto Busquets Etc all were our academy players so even if we bought a player for 1 million it would be the most expensive in that region.
Dokcilmpru
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Wish you well
didadinors
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I'm not an atleti fan but with Felipe Luis still in, along with solid giminez, new acquisition Felipe Monteiro the defense line remains strong
JΔYPEE
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hahahaaha let's see what Hazard will do in Real Madrid for now...
DarkNoob
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what a joke 20 million is the highest they pay in 2019[Crylaugh][Crylaugh][Crylaugh]
Our defence is still better
neviemmeno
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what a joke 20 million is the highest they pay in 2019[Crylaugh][Crylaugh][Crylaugh]
so you see that we can have the best defence in the world even without expensive players
Madrista_forever
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what a joke 20 million is the highest they pay in 2019[Crylaugh][Crylaugh][Crylaugh]