valuations released by Football-Observatory.com.
Messi was determined to
have a transfer value of $287.6-315.5 million (€255.3-280.9 million).
That's more than a $100 million greater than any other player in the
world.
While fans will argue about
whether Messi or Ronaldo is the best player in the world, the one huge
advantage Messi has over Ronaldo in terms of value is age. Messi (27) is
three years younger than his Real Madrid rival. Ronaldo is one of just
seven of the top 100 players who has already celebrated his 30th
birthday, and he fell to No. 3 on this year's list behind Chelsea's Eden
Hazard.
In addition to age, the player
values are determined based on a formula that considers a player's
performance, position, contract status, and experience, as well as his
current team's performance and competition level, while factoring recent
trends in spending in the transfer market.
Here are the 20 most valuable:
- Lionel Messi (Barcelona) — $287.8-316.6 million
- Eden Hazard (Chelsea) — $152.7-167.9 million
- Cristiano Ronaldo (Real Madrid) — $127.7-140.6 million
- Neymar (Barcelona) — $101.0-111.0 million
- Sergio Agüero (Manchester City) — $88.2-97.0 million
- Raheem Sterling (Liverpool) — $83.1-91.3 million
- Paul Pogba (Juventus) — $79.3-87.2 million
- Diego Costa (Chelsea) — $78.8-86.7 million
- Alexis Sánchez (Arsenal) — $76.4-84.1 million
- James Rodríguez (Real Madrid) — $70.5-77.6 million
- Luis Suárez (Barcelona) — $67.6-74.4 million
- Antoine Griezmann (Atlético Madrid) — $66.5-73.2 million
- Cesc Fàbregas (Chelsea) — $66.2-72.7 million
- Isco Alarcón (Real Madrid) — $64.5-70.9 million
- Harry Kane (Tottenham) — $60.3-66.4 million
- Gareth Bale (Real Madrid) — $57.8-63.6 million
- Philippe Coutinho (Liverpool) — $56.8-62.6 million
- Thibaut Courtois (Chelsea) — $56.7-62.4 million
- Oscar dos Santos (Chelsea) — $53.6-59.0 million
- Karim Benzema (Real Madrid) — $50.3-55.4 million
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