The CIES Football Observatory has come up with a new study which reveals that Lamine Yamal is the current player with the highest value in world football.
Yamal has just signed a new long-term contract at Barcelona which contains a release clause set at an eye-popping €1 billion.
Yet the CIES’s statistical model says it would cost only €402.3 million (£340m/$460m) to actually buy Yamal now.
“This extraordinary figure is linked to equally extraordinary performances achieved at an age - 18 in July - when most players, even the best, are just starting out at professional level,” says the report.