Mbappe in first place on the list of the top 100 football players of the five best leagues in Europe

Kilian Mbappe – at the head of the Top 100 most expensive football players of the 5 main European leagues / PRESSINPHOTO / GTRES

The Center for Studies on Sport (CIES) has published a ranking of the top 100 football players of the five most expensive leagues.

The CIES classification differs from the more usual settings of the German Transfermarkt portal and the player value training algorithm takes into account 21 parameters, among which – age, position on the field, league in which the player acts , activity in the club and the national team (number of minutes of game, statistics), team results with this football player, economic level and current financial status of the club. In addition, the duration of the contract, previous transfers of the player and much more are taken into account.

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At the top of the ranking is aged 20 years. The striker "PSG" and the national team of France Kilian Mbappe, winner of the last summer of the 2018 World Cup. Its value is estimated at 218 million euros. Aside from him, the 200 million mark has exceeded only one player – Tottenham striker and the English national team Harry Kane.

Closes the top three of last year 's Neymar rankings. According to the CIES website, the price went from 213 million euros to 197 million euros a year.

Lionel Messi, who was costing $ 202 million in early 2018, has now dropped significantly and is "pulling out" more than $ 171 million, with the exception of the $ 1 billion mark. Argentina moving from second to seventh place on the list.

But his eternal rival, Cristiano Ronaldo, who will celebrate his 34th birthday a month later, knows another youth. A year ago, the value of Cristiano rose to 80 million euros and it was hardly in the top 50 (49th place). Another victory in the Champions League and a noisy transition to "Juventus" have transformed the faith of the Portuguese. At the beginning of 2019, it ranked 19th and cost 127 million euros.

According to UNIAN, the value table of the top 100 players in the world was previously published by Trasfermarkt.com. Messi and Ronaldo in the rankings were ranked all 20 million euros.