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Neymar ranked as most valuable footballer in the world while Harry Kane and Dele Alli make top 10 in list ranking players by expected price

A list judging which world footballers are the most valuable has been published, with Neymar knocking Lionel Messi off the top of the pile.

The CIES Football Observatory list judges which player would command the highest transfer fee, and have judged that if a team were to make a move for Barcelona striker Neymar, they should pay no less than £217m - £128m more than the current world record, the £89m paid by Manchester United for Paul Pogba.

Messi meanwhile is valued at £150m - down £35m on the January 2016 list - while Tottenham Hotspur and England stars Harry Kane and Dele Alli make the top 10.