Sevilla have made some premium player sales this century!
Sevilla is known to be the birthplace of some of the most legendary footballers in history.
The club has given rise to some prominent names who have gone on and achieved legendary status in the world of football.
Talk about Sergio Ramos, or even evergreen stars like Davor Suker and the late Jose Antonio Reyes, Sevilla built them and in order to continue their academy's production line, they let go of these stars to some of the greatest clubs in the world at healthy profits.
Which players make up Sevilla's most expensive sales, though?
Let's take a look!
Sevilla most expensive sales by season
Season
Biggest sale
Fee
Total sales
2022/23
Jules Kounde
€50M/£45M
€91.50M/£82.35M
2021/22
Bryan Gil
€25M/£22.50M
€28.50M/£26.65M
2020/21
Carlos Fernandez
€10M/£9M
€19.68M/£17.71M
2019/20
Wissam Ben Yedder
€40M/£36M
€131.45M/£118.30M
2018/19
Clement Lenglet
€35.90M/£32.31M
€93.80M/£84.42M
2017/18
Vitolo
€35.60M/£32.04M
€81.60M/£73.44M
2016/17
Kevin Gameiro
€32M/£28.80M
€93.45M/£84.11M
2015/16
Carlos Bacca
€33.30M/£29.97M
€61.45M/£55.31M
2014/15
Ivan Rakitic/Alberto Moreno
€18M/£16.20M
€50.55M/£45.50M
2013/14
Alvaro Negredo
€25M/£22.50M
€90.98M/£81.88M
2012/13
Martin Caceres
€8M/£7.20M
€12.20M/£10.98M
2011/12
Didier Zokora
€5M/£4.50M
€15.70M/£14.13M
2010/11
Adriano
€9.50M/£8.55M
€29.60M/£26.64M
2009/10
Aquivaldo Mosquera
€4.20M/£3.78M
€9.30M/£8.37M
2008/09
Dani Alves
€35.50M/£31.95M
€60.55M/£54.50M
2007/08
Aleksandr Kerzhakov
€8M/£7.20M
€21.10M/£18.99M
2006/07
Jordi Lopez
€1.50M/£1.35M
€1.50M/£1.35M
2005/06
Sergio Ramos
€27M/£24.30M
€48.20M/£43.38M
2004/05
None
N/A
Nil
2003/04
Jose Antonio Reyes
€20M/£18M
€20M/£18M
2002/03
None
N/A
Nil
2001/02
None
N/A
Nil
2000/01
Carlos Marchena
€5.70M/£5.13M
€17.90M/£16.11M
TOTAL
€979M/£882M
*All figures are taken from Transfermarkt unless stated otherwise.
Sevilla top 10 most expensive player salesGetty10Sergio Ramos | €27 million/£24.30 million | Real Madrid | 2005
Sergio Ramos graduated from Sevilla's academy alongside stars like Jesus Navas and the late Antonio Puerta.
After making his debut for them in February 2004, Ramos went on to feature for 39 games for Sevilla in the 2004-05 season.
In the summer of 2005, Real Madrid came calling, paying €27 million (£24.30 million) for Ramos, the record transfer fee for a Spanish defender at that time.
Ramos would go on to become one of Real Madrid's greatest legends, winning every trophy there is to win at club level.
AdvertisementGetty Images9Grzegorz Krychowiak | €27.50 million/£24.75 million | PSG | 2016
Poland star Grzegorz Krychowiak joined Sevilla from Reims in France for €5.50 million (£4.95 million) in 2014.
Krychowiak became the fifth Polish player to win the Europa League in 2015 when Sevilla beat Dnipro in the final, in which he scored a goal in a 3-2 win.
He repeated the same feat in 2016 when he helped Sevilla beat Liverpool 3-1 to win the Europa League for a third time in a row.
PSG came calling in the summer of 2016, signing him for a premium €27.50m (£24.75m) fee.
Krychowiak moved on loan to West Bromwich Albion after just one season with PSG. This was followed by another loan move to Lokomotiv Moscow, before Krasnodar signed him for €4m (£3.60m) in August 2021.
He was then loaned to AEK Athens in March 2022 before making another loan move to Al-Shabab in the summer of 2022.
Getty8Diego Carlos | €31 million/£27.90 million | Aston Villa | 2022
After three seasons with Sevilla since arriving for €15 million (£13.50 million) from Nantes, Brazilian centre-back Diego Carlos was sold to Premier League club Aston Villa in the summer of 2022.
The Villains paid a premium €31m (£27.90m) fee for the defender and Steven Gerrard named him as one of the two vice-captains at the club alongside Emiliano Martinez.
In August, he made his debut in the Premier League in a 2-0 defeat to Bournemouth.
In his second game, Carlos ruptured his achilles tendon and has since then undergone surgery.
Getty7Kevin Gameiro | €32 million/£28.80 million | Atletico Madrid | 2016
Kevin Gameiro was revelation at Lorient, scoring 50 goals in 108 appearances in three seasons.
In 2011, PSG came calling, signing him for €11m (£9.90m).
The Frenchman featured for two seasons at the Parisian club, scoring 19 goals in 59 appearances before Sevilla came calling in 2013, signing him for just €7.50m (£6.75m).
Gameiro won the Europa League in the 2013-14 season, coming off the bench in extra-time and scoring the trophy-winning penalty in a 4-2 shootout win for Sevilla against Benfica.
He then went on to score against Liverpool in the 2015-16 Europa League final in a game that Sevilla won 3-1 to become the first team to win the Europa League three times in a row.
Atletico Madrid came calling in the summer of 2016, signing him for €32m (£28.80m).