Neymar‘s world-record switch to Paris Saint-Germain last summer was the main instigator behind his rise to becoming football’s most valuable player.
The brilliant Brazilian pipped former Barcelona team-mate Lionel Messi in CIES Football Observatory’s charts which rank players from the top five European leagues, on how much they are worth and factoring in age, position, contract duration, performance and international status.
Those figures, totted up, see Neymar hold top spot at €213m while Messi is second (€202.2m).