A study has been published which ranks world clubs in terms of the calculated market value of the players that they have under contract, with AC Milan and Inter right next to each other.
The 475th CIES Football Observatory Weekly Post has published a list of the 100 clubs worldwide whose players have the highest aggregate transfer value, and it also includes players who are on loan to other teams.
It is perhaps no surprise that Real Madrid lead the way with a combined squad market value of €1.728bn, and it is quite far ahead of Manchester City who are in second with €1.471bn. Another English club, Chelsea FC, are third with €1.388bn.
Milan have 47 players registered – which is actually one of the highest numbers – for a combined value of €762m, therefore a per-player average of €16.2m. That puts them 14th in the overall ranking.
Inter are one place above on €800m across 41 players, while Juventus are three places below with their €697m total spread across 46 registered players. Napoli (€598m) and Atalanta (€568m) are the other Serie A clubs in the top 30.
The site explains how they determine values: “The estimates were calculated on the basis of a statistical model developed exclusively by the CIES Football Observatory, using a methodology explained in this peer-reviewed paper recently published in the International Journal of Financial Studies.
“The estimated transfer values of the best-valued player by club in over 60 leagues worldwide are available free of charge in this online tool.”
Back in May, CIES had Milan star Rafael Leao as the most valuable player in Serie A ahead of the likes of Lautaro Martinez and Khvicha Kvaratskhelia, but now Lautaro has jumped ahead.
It seems a bit ridiculous that Lautauro has moved upwards as he has scored two goals against Udinese in this Serie A season and in last season he scored in May and then last time before that scored a goal against Atalanta back in late February 2024.
I would question such algorithm as it seems pretty flawed from the looks of it.
Nothing ridiculous here.
A month later Lautaro won the scudetto and was named serie A MVP.
Another month later Lautaro won Copa America and won the Copa America golden boot.
There is more football than just serie A.
BTW, what has Leao done since May to not move down?
How many goals has he scored since May?
Nothing flawed here.
Well you got a point in regard of Coppa America golden boot but clearly he has been having some rather dubious stats for Serie A since February so if anything there is a point there as well.
Leao hasn’t been perfect far from it but pretty sure his stats in that span of time is a lot better and Lautauro plays in a better position to score more so I’m not really that convinced.
Lautaro is the best player in the league where Leao plays, while Leao isn’t even the best player in the team he plays.
Players values are like the stock market. It goes up and down.
Lautaro’s value goes up, Leao’s goes down.
One of them was his NT team’s best player and scored the most goals at the continental tournament, while the other had the most yellow cards for simulations at the Euro’s.
“while the other had the most yellow cards for simulations at the Euro’s”
Haha I forgot about that!
Still we know what Leao is capable of, it’s a shame that Milan doesn’t have the right coach to maximise the strengths of the players. Fonseca was obviously hired to develop players but the best ones are regressing while the young ones don’t even play.
I reckon Lautauro as a really great player no question there but it doesn’t change the fact that he hasn’t really been great there for over half a year.
If anything both players values should be going downwards, Anyways we don’t have to agree and that’s also fine.