May 1998

Pierluigi Casiraghi £5.4 m from Lazio

June 1998

Brian Laudrup free from Rangers

Albert Ferrer £2.2m from Barcelona

Marcel Desailly £4.6m from AC Milan

July 1999

Didier Deschamps £3m from Juventus

Chris Sutton £10m from Blackburn

Mario Melchiot free from Ajax

August 1999

Gabrielle Ambrosetti £3.5m from Vicenza

December 1999

Emerson Thome £2.5m from Sheffield Wednesday

January 2000

George Weah on loan from AC Milan

June 2000

Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink £15m from Atletico Madrid

Eidur Gudjohnsen £4m from Bolton

Mario Stanic £5m from Parma

August 2000

Winston Bogarde free from Barcelona