- PSG striker Kylian Mbappe’s price tag has risen by 37 per cent since September
- Mbappe outranks any other player under 21 in CIES Football Observatory study
- 28 players of the top 100 in Europe are plying their trade in the Premier League
- Dele Alli, Leroy Sane, Marcus Rashford and Gabriel Jesus all rank in the top six
- Bayer Leverkusen hold six of top 100 stars, with Everton and Real Madrid on five
Kylian Mbappe is now Europe’s most valuable young player as the 18-year-old’s form begins to match up to his £166million planned purchase fee for Paris Saint-Germain.
French striker Mbappe tops a list of 100 players under the age of 21 in Europe’s top five leagues produced by gurus at the CIES Football Observatory, ahead of Dele Alli and Leroy Sane.
The CIES algorithm now suggests Mbappe has a value of over £160m, a 37 per cent increase on his £117.74m figure in September. Alli, Sane, Ousmane Dembele and Marcus Rashford are all priced at over £100m.
Kylian Mbappe is Europe’s most valuable young player according to CIES Football Observatory
Tottenham’s Dele Alli and Manchester City forward Leroy Sane follow in second and third spot
Name | Club | Sept value (£m) | Dec value (£m) | Increase/decrease | ||
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Kylian Mbappe | Paris Saint-Germain | £117.74 | £160.86 | 37% | ||
Dele Alli | Tottenham | £160.69 | £158.58 | -1% | ||
Leroy Sane | Manchester City | £77.62 | £109.56 | 41% | ||
Ousmane Dembele | Barcelona | £121.44 | £105.95 | -13% | ||
Marcus Rashford | Manchester United | £80.43 | £102.70 | 28% | ||
Gabriel Jesus | Manchester City | £46.46 | £95.39 | 105% | ||
Timo Werner | RB Leipzig | £69.52 | £81.40 | 17% | ||
Anthony Martial | Manchester United | £69.08 | £75.33 | 9% | ||
Christian Pulisic | Borussia Dortmund | £66.70 | £66.18 | -1% | ||
Davinson Sanchez | Tottenham | £31.15 | £58.34 | 87% |
Having moved on loan from Monaco as a precursor to a £166m permanent switch next summer, Mbappe leapfrogged Tottenham star Alli to accompany his new club’s excellent in Ligue 1 and the Champions League this season.
But PSG and their fellow French clubs are not ranked to be the continent’s best home of young talent, that honour falls to the Premier League – which houses 28 members of the top 100.
Struggling Everton alone provide five players, second only to Bayer Leverkusen and level with European champions Real Madrid.
Liverpool and Leicester City have four pricey young stars each on their books, while Tottenham have three and the two Manchester clubs offer up a pair each.
La Liga clubs have 22 names on the list, there are 19 from the Bundesliga and 17 and 14 respectively from Serie A and Ligue 1.
Joe Gomez, who has emerged as a serious first-team contender at Liverpool this season, has seen his value shoot up by the highest percentage of any player – an incredible 280 per cent – from £7.9m to £30.1m in two months.
Barcelona’s Ousmane Dembele and Manchester United star Marcus Rashford are in the top five
Everton can count Tom Davies among five of their players who make the CIES top 100 list
The Premier League can also count Gabriel Jesus, Anthony Martial and Davinson Sanchez in the top 10 players alongside RB Leipzig’s Timo Werner and Christian Pulisic of Borussia Dortmund.
Mbappe’s price rise, of around £43.12m, is the stand-out figure though. He has hit eight goals and six assists in 17 matches across Ligue 1 and the Champions League.
That follows his 21 goals and 11 assists in the same two major competitions for Monaco last season, a haul that dragged the eyes of every top European side towards the Principality club.
And his value continues to rise with his form after stepping up a level to play for PSG alongside Neymar and Edinson Cavani.
The French league leaders are due to pay out £166m – not too far over his £161m CIES value – at the end of a season-long loan.
Player name | Club | Sept value (£m) | Dec value (£m) | Increase/decrease | ||
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Kylian Mbappe | Paris Saint-Germain | £117.74 | £160.86 | 37% | ||
Dele Alli | Tottenham | £160.69 | £158.58 | -1% | ||
Leroy Sane | Manchester City | £77.62 | £109.56 | 41% | ||
Ousmane Dembele | Barcelona | £121.44 | £105.95 | -13% | ||
Marcus Rashford | Manchester United | £80.43 | £102.70 | 28% | ||
Gabriel Jesus | Manchester City | £46.46 | £95.39 | 105% | ||
Timo Werner | RB Leipzig | £69.52 | £81.40 | 17% | ||
Anthony Martial | Manchester United | £69.08 | £75.33 | 9% | ||
Christian Pulisic | Borussia Dortmund | £66.70 | £66.18 | -1% | ||
Davinson Sanchez | Tottenham | £31.15 | £58.34 | 87% | ||
Wilfred Ndidi | Leicester City | £42.86 | £57.02 | 33% | ||
Gianluigi Donnarumma | AC Milan | £60.46 | £49.02 | -19% | ||
Federico Chiesa | Fiorentina | £27.72 | £46.29 | 67% | ||
Lorenzo Pellegrini | Roma | £30.98 | £44.62 | 44% | ||
Marco Asensio | Real Madrid | £35.02 | £44.62 | 27% | ||
Andreas Christensen | Chelsea | £33.00 | £41.89 | 27% | ||
Franck Kessie | AC Milan | £38.72 | £41.89 | 8% | ||
Youri Tielemans | Monaco | £30.10 | £40.66 | 35% | ||
Daniel Ceballos | Real Madrid | £11.44 | £38.54 | 131% | ||
Theo Hernandez | Real Madrid | £32.21 | £37.66 | 17% | ||
Tom Davies | Everton | £29.48 | £37.05 | 26% | ||
Pablo Fornals | Villarreal | £24.46 | £36.52 | 49% | ||
Goncalo Guedes | Valencia | £21.12 | £35.99 | 70% | ||
Rodrigo Bentancur | Juventus | £14.43 | £35.64 | 147% | ||
Tammy Abraham | Swansea City | £26.84 | £34.94 | 30% | ||
Mikel Oyarzabal | Real Sociedad | £35.73 | £34.32 | -4% | ||
Carlos Soler | Valencia | £12.76 | £33.35 | 161% | ||
Malcom Filipe | Bordeaux | £26.22 | £33.09 | 26% | ||
Renato Sanches | Swansea City | £40.92 | £32.82 | -20% | ||
Kingsley Coman | Bayern Munich | £30.36 | £31.15 | 3% | ||
Joe Gomez | Liverpool | £7.92 | £30.10 | 280% | ||
Rony Lopes | Monaco | £8.45 | £29.83 | 253% | ||
Harry Winks | Tottenham | £11.44 | £28.78 | 152% | ||
Alex Iwobi | Arsenal | £31.86 | £27.72 | -13% | ||
Julian Brandt | Bayer Leverkusen | £34.32 | £27.54 | -20% | ||
Dayot Upamecano | RB Leipzig | £14.70 | £26.93 | 83% | ||
Richarlison | Watford | £11.00 | £26.84 | 144% | ||
Lucas Tousart | Lyon | £20.33 | £26.84 | 32% | ||
Mahmoud Dahoud | Borussia Dortmund | £25.43 | £24.99 | -2% | ||
Amadou Diawara | Napoli | £20.50 | £24.73 | 21% | ||
Lucas Torreira | Sampdoria | £14.34 | £22.35 | 56% | ||
Aaron Martin | Espanyol | £17.69 | £21.47 | 21% | ||
Demarai Gray | Leicester City | £18.30 | £21.21 | 16% | ||
Jonathan Tah | Bayer Leverkusen | £25.17 | £20.77 | -17% | ||
Amine Harit | Schalke | £16.63 | £20.15 | 21% | ||
Patrik Schick | Roma | £16.10 | £20.06 | 25% | ||
Lucas Hernandez | Atletico Madrid | £13.02 | £20.06 | 54% | ||
Cengiz Under | Roma | £25.08 | £18.74 | -25% | ||
Maxime Lopez | Marseille | £17.34 | £18.74 | 8% | ||
Adam Ounas | Napoli | £10.30 | £18.66 | 81% | ||
Trent Alexander-Arnold | Liverpool | £5.54 | £18.57 | 235% | ||
Kai Havertz | Bayer Leverkusen | £12.32 | £18.48 | 50% | ||
Maxwell Cornet | Lyon | £17.42 | £17.78 | 2% | ||
Mouctar Diakhaby | Lyon | £16.54 | £17.51 | 6% | ||
Dominic Solanke | Liverpool | £6.95 | £17.34 | 149% | ||
Kelechi Iheanacho | Leicester City | £19.54 | £17.07 | -13% | ||
Alvaro Odriozola | Real Sociedad | £5.10 | £16.72 | 228% | ||
Francois Kamano | Bordeaux | £13.73 | £16.54 | 21% | ||
Ismaila Sarr | Rennes | £20.24 | £16.46 | -19% | ||
Santi Mina | Valencia | £10.74 | £16.46 | 53% | ||
Enes Unal | Levante | £17.42 | £16.37 | -6% | ||
Dominic Calvert-Lewin | Everton | £11.35 | £15.84 | 40% | ||
Benjamin Henrichs | Bayer Leverkusen | £21.47 | £15.66 | -27% | ||
Allan Saint-Maximin | Nice | £17.42 | £15.49 | -11% | ||
Antonio Sanabria | Real Betis | £8.62 | £15.49 | 80% | ||
Nico Elvedi | Borussia M’gladbach | £17.78 | £15.49 | -13% | ||
Nikola Vlasic | Everton | £13.90 | £15.22 | 9% | ||
Yann Karamoh | Inter Milan | £11.88 | £13.55 | 14% | ||
Amath Ndiaye | Getafe | £7.22 | £13.29 | 84% | ||
Nicolo Barella | Cagliari | £9.42 | £13.11 | 39% | ||
Ademola Lookman | Everton | £16.72 | £12.94 | -23% | ||
Andreas Pereira | Valencia | £7.74 | £12.76 | 65% | ||
Leon Bailey | Bayer Leverkusen | £7.74 | £12.58 | 63% | ||
Ramadan Sobhi | Stoke City | £9.68 | £12.58 | 30% | ||
Panagiotis Retsos | Bayer Leverkusen | £11.88 | £12.50 | 5% | ||
Jakub Jankto | Udinese | £10.91 | £12.23 | 12% | ||
Jesus Vallejo | Real Madrid | £10.56 | £12.23 | 16% | ||
Mason Holgate | Everton | £10.12 | £12.23 | 21% | ||
Federico Valverde | Deportivo La Coruna | £4.40 | £12.14 | 176% | ||
Nadiem Amiri | Hoffenheim | £12.41 | £11.70 | -6% | ||
Giovani Lo Celso | Paris Saint-Germain | £3.96 | £11.00 | 178% | ||
Oliver Burke | West Bromwich Albion | £10.56 | £10.91 | 3% | ||
Alban Lafont | Toulouse | £12.50 | £10.91 | -13% | ||
Ben Chilwell | Leicester City | £6.86 | £10.74 | 56% | ||
Gerson Santos | Roma | £5.54 | £10.74 | 94% | ||
Mauricio Lemos | Las Palmas | £7.22 | £10.30 | 43% | ||
Jordon Ibe | Bournemouth | £13.64 | £10.30 | -25% | ||
Levin Oztunali | Mainz | £8.45 | £10.21 | 21% | ||
Kevin Danso | Augsburg | £3.43 | £10.03 | 192% | ||
Jorge de Oliveira | Monaco | £5.81 | £10.03 | 73% | ||
Assane Diousse | St-Etienne | £7.39 | £9.94 | 35% | ||
Konrad Laimer | RB Leipzig | £6.78 | £9.86 | 45% | ||
Adama Diakhaby | Monaco | £6.78 | £9.77 | 44% | ||
Alexander Isak | Borussia Dortmund | £4.84 | £9.77 | 102% | ||
Maximiliano Gomez | Celta Vigo | £2.64 | £9.68 | 267% | ||
Emre Mor | Celta Vigo | £11.26 | £9.59 | -15% | ||
Ben Woodburn | Liverpool | £7.04 | £9.59 | 36% | ||
Gil Dias | Fiorentina | £9.42 | £9.50 | 1% | ||
Dan-Axel Zagadou | Borussia Dortmund | £3.34 | £9.50 | 184% | ||
Borja Mayoral | Real Madrid | £4.75 | £9.33 | 96% |