Queens Park Rangers' record transfer signing is Christopher Samba, who joined from Anzhi Makhachkala for £12.5m in January 2013, on reported wages of £100,000 a week. Their record sale is Eberechi Eze's £17m move to Crystal Palace in August 2020 — a transfer that has continued paying QPR dividends years after the player himself moved on again.
A Record Broken Twice in the Same Month
QPR's desperation to survive their first Premier League season produced one of the strangest transfer sequences in this entire dataset. Loïc Rémy's £8m arrival from Marseille on 16 January 2013 set a new club record, only for it to last barely two weeks before Christopher Samba's £12.5m transfer from Anzhi Makhachkala arrived on 31 January and broke it again — the same relegation-threatened squad resetting its own spending record twice within a single transfer window. QPR were relegated four months later, and Samba was sold back to Anzhi that July for £12m, a deal now routinely cited among the worst Premier League signings ever made.
Eze's Sell-On Clause Kept Paying Out
Eberechi Eze's £17m move to Crystal Palace in August 2020 came after Palace had seen an earlier £12m bid rejected, and it remains QPR's record sale. The value of that original transfer only grew from there: Eze went on to move to Arsenal for £67.5m in 2025, with QPR understood to have retained a sell-on percentage from the original Palace deal.
QPR broke their own transfer record twice in the same January transfer window, sold the second record-breaker back to the club they'd bought him from within six months, and are still collecting money from a sell-on clause on the one signing they actually developed themselves.
Samba's £12.5m fee still comfortably exceeds the record signings of Millwall and Charlton Athletic, QPR's nearest London Championship rivals, more than a decade on from Samba's own transfer window.
