2. Marius Cioara - 15kg of Sausages
Romania is obviously the land of meat based transfer fees as eight years after Ion Radu was sold for two tonnes of beef and pork, Marius Cioara made the move from Second Division UT Arad to Fourth Division Regal Hornia for a fee consisting entirely of sausages. The Cioara deal, though, was over 120 times less meaty than Radu's, with the defender's sausage value just 15kg. If Kenneth Kristensen was worth his whole weight in shrimp, then this makes Cioara worth only about the weight of his right leg in sausage.
How did he do? He didn't. Humiliated by the transfer fee (although it's unclear whether the insult was the fact that it was in sausage or just the small amount of sausage he was deemed to be worth), Cioara decided to retire the day after the transfer went through, rather than face up to all the banger based banter. Hornia were left angrily demanding the return of the transfer fee. "We lost a good player," a club spokesman said, "and we lost our team's food for a whole week". Cioara, for his part, moved to Spain to become a farmer. Whether his agricultural work involved pork farming is, sadly, not reported.