The British record for transfer spend has ballooned over the Premier League era, with the most recent record-setting move coming in at nearly 32 times the amount set just before the inaugural 1992/93 campaign kicked off.
But Alan Shearer to Blackburn Rovers was an unqualified success. The emerging centre-forward, then just 21 years old, had just broken into the England set-up after scoring 13 league goals for 16th-placed Southampton in 1991/92 and looked ready to join an upwardly-mobile and ambitious club.
Blackburn had been taken over by building magnate Jack Walker and surprisingly appointed multiple-title winning former Liverpool boss Kenny Dalglish as manager, despite being a second-tier side at the time.
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