The authoritative portal football-observatory.com (CIES) has released its annual ranking of the most expensive players in the world.
The International Sports Research Center on the basis of its own statistical model data provided an estimated cost of more than 30 thousand players in 75 leagues of the world.
It is noted that the estimated transfer value of players is calculated according to the economic algorithm CIES.
The most expensive, according to the portal, is an Englishman Jude Bellingham, who plays for Borussia Dortmund. The German club, according to football-observatory, could potentially earn €208 million for the 19-year-old player. It is noteworthy that France forward Kylian Mbappe is ranked third and Manchester City forward Erling Haaland of Norway is ranked fifth.
Top 20 most expensive soccer players:
- Jude Bellingham (Borussia Dortmund) – 208.2 million euros.
- Phil Foden (Manchester City) – 200.5 million euros.
- Kylian Mbappe (PSG) – 191.7 million euros.
- Vinicius Junior (Real Madrid) – 190.5 million euros.
- Erling Haaland (Manchester City) – 174.9 million euros.
- Pedri (Barcelona) – 170.2 million euros
- Gavi (Barcelona) – 147.6 million euros.
- Jamal Musiala (Bayern) – 145.1 million euros.
- Joško Gvardiol (RB Leipzig) – 125.8 million euros.
- Federico Valverde (Real Madrid) – 123.5 million euros.
- Rodri (Manchester City) – 117 million euros.
- Luis Diaz (Liverpool) – 109.7 million euros.
- Frenkie de Jong (Barcelona) – 109.3 million euros.
- Bukayo Saka (Arsenal) – 108.7 million euros.
- Rodrygo Goes (Real Madrid) – 107.4 million euros.
- Aurélien Tchouameni (Real Madrid) – 107.2 million euros.
- Ferran Torres (Barcelona) – 106.8 million euros.
- Rúben Dias (Manchester City) – 105 million euros.
- João Cancelo (Manchester City) – 103.6 million euros.
- Éder Militão (Real Madrid) – 102 million euros.
Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo are not even in the top 100 of this ranking.
Last updated on 07 Jan 2023 - 14:37
