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Neymar transfers worth £200m plus won't happen in English football, claims chief Richard Scudamore

Premier League chief Richard Scudamore does not expect to see any transfers in English football matching the £200m world record fee paid by Paris St Germain to sign Neymar from Barcelona.

Scudamore regards the move that made Neymar the most expensive footballer of all time last week as a demonstration of spending power by the Ligue 1 club's Qatari owners that is unlikely to be repeated on the same scale.

'I can't see anything like that (in the Premier League),' Scudamore told BBC Radio 5 live. 'When the previous record was £89million (Paul Pogba), to suddenly go to £200million that's something else going on there.