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- Updated: December 8, 2016
Real Madrid’s Cristiano Ronaldo is favourite for this year’s Ballon d’Or crown, but according to a study, doesn’t make the most valuable team in Europe.
Ronaldo, valued at £110m by the CIES Football Observatory, is pipped by Lionel Messi (£161m), Antoine Griezmann (£115m) and Neymar (£213m) in the front line of a most valuable XI, collated by Spanish newspaper AS.
Barcelona star Neymar is considered the most valuable player in Europe, while Liverpool’s Philippe Coutinho (£63m) makes up the front four in the No 10 position.
Swiss-based football research group CIES use a sophisticated algorithm to gather the transfer values of players in the ‘big five’ European leagues (Premier League, La Liga, Serie A, Ligue 1, Bundesliga), updated every transfer …
