3) Real Madrid – €545.1m
CIES value Cristiano Ronaldo below Eden Hazard, and Real Madrid below Chelsea, too. The Spaniards have four players in the top 20 – with James, Isco and Gareth Bale joining the three-time Ballon d’Or winner joining him.
2) Chelsea – €617.8m
Chelsea’s Premier League title winning squad is worth an enormous amount. Even their squad players get sold for massive money (Lukaku, De Bruyne, Mata, Schurrle), which has increased the value of the current batch… Diego Costa, Eden Hazard, Cesc Fabregas, Thibaut Courtois and Oscar all make the top 20.
1) Barcelona – €682m
Barbarically (but probably fairly…) CIES value Lionel Messi at €255-280m! Alongside the greatest player in the world, Barcelona deploy Neymar (ranked 4th) and Luis Suarez (11th) as part of the most devastating front-three in football – while virtually their entire squad is valued in the top 100 players.
