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“Marc Guiu became Chelsea’s youngest-ever Champions League goalscorer against Ajax, only to have the record snatched away from him by Estêvão 30 minutes later. What other examples of rapidly lost records are there in the world of football? What’s the record for the shortest-held record?” asks Matt Prior.
Given the predilection of those involved in football to flaunt their wad, transfer records are fertile ground for this kind of question. The first example that comes to mind is in the summer of 1995, when the British transfer record was broken twice. First Arsenal paid £7.5m for Inter’s Dennis Bergkamp; 15 days later, Liverpool bought Stan Collymore from Nottingham Forest for £8.5m.
It’s not often that Bergkamp is bracketed alongside David Mills and Steve Daley, but they also held the transfer record for a short time. Both were in 1979, with the progression of the record listed below. Wolves, who sold Daley to Manchester City, used that money to break the record again three days later by signing Andy Gray from Aston Villa.
