225,000,000 SVC. One name. One record nobody can touch.

Florian Wirtz. Dortmund. 225M SVC, prised off Leverkusen back in Season 1. I've been through the auction archive line by line, pet, and the verdict's in: that fee is still the biggest Soccerverse has ever seen. Three seasons, 11,468 deals this term alone, and not a soul has laid a glove on it.

Plenty have tried. Here's where the Record Watch stands.

Bayern got closest — and still fell short

The nearest challenger this season is Bayern's. They went 176M SVC to Andorra in January for a 94-rated teenage playmaker — 18 years old, German, plays through the middle and off the right. That's a club record for Bayern and a monster of a deal. But it's 49M short of Wirtz. Do the maths and it's 78% of the all-time mark. Close. Not close enough.

Salzburg are right behind on 173M SVC, the lump they handed Heidenheim. After that come the deals the market actually buzzed about:

- Viktor Gyökeres → Barcelona — 150M SVC - Robinio Vaz → Barcelona — 145M SVC - Bryan Mbeumo → Manchester Red (from Brentford) — 129.2M SVC - José López → Brugge Blue (from Kolkata Red) — 119.6M SVC

That last one's the freshest of the blockbusters — 1 May, when the rest had gone quiet. Brugge Blue paid nine figures for a 25-year-old now valued at under 15M SVC. Bold, that.

The window in one number: 38.39 billion

Season 3 has been proper relentless. 11,468 completed transfers. 38.39 BILLION SVC changing hands. That's the trail, and it points straight at a handful of clubs doing the heavy lifting.

Biggest spenders, per the transfer archive:

- Barcelona — 427.8M SVC across five signings - Bayern — 384.6M from just three - Lecco — 340.2M over eight - Salzburg — 330.3M (eight) - Leipzig — 306.6M (six) - Brugge Blue — 271.7M, and the busiest of the lot at eleven deals

Barça out in front, but Bayern's the eye-opener: nearly as much spent, on less than half the bodies.

Top scorers: a race, not a record

No record-breaking boot in England's top flight, mind — but a tidy little scrap for the Golden Boot. Evan Ferguson leads it, 12 goals in 29 for Brighton, one clear of London Red's frontman and Nottingham's Kaio Pinto Ramos (11 apiece). Erling Haaland's chipped in 10 for Manchester Blue. London Red sit top of the table on 65 points, Sjow's lot holding off Crystal Palace and Liverpool.

And one to watch

Here's the one that could shake the whole board. Mohamed Salah — 99-rated, Liverpool's talisman — is sat on the auction block with a 120M SVC asking price slapped on him. Match that and it's instantly the season's third-biggest deal, ahead of Gyökeres.

But no bids have landed yet. That's an asking price, not a deal — and it stays a rumour 'til the hammer drops. Wirtz's 225M is safe for now. This one, though? Watch it.