Football
Dan Kilpatrick, Tottenham Correspondent 7y

Tottenham Hotspur squad is Europe's third most valuable - CIES study

Only Barcelona and Real Madrid have more valuable squads than Tottenham Hotspur, according to a new study.

The CIES Football Observatory study found that only Barcelona had a greater gap between the cost of assembling their squad and its current value than Spurs.

The Barca squad was named as the most valuable in Europe, worth €1,071 million (£924m), with Real's worth the second-highest amount at €921m.

The report said the Tottenham squad was worth €799m and had cost €274m to assemble.

Academy graduate Harry Kane, who cost nothing, was named by CIES as one of eight players in the world worth more than €100m, while Dele Alli, Eric Dier, Kyle Walker and Danny Rose were signed inexpensively but are now worth huge sums.

Messi's path from an academy graduate to an estimated transfer value of €170.5m and the increase in value of Neymar -- who cost €87m but is now worth €246.8m -- largely accounted for the €586m gap between squad assembly expenditure and current value.

Manchester United's squad was named as the second most valuable in the Premier League at €700m, but the fact that it cost €718m to assemble left the Red Devils ranked 95th in Europe.

Chelsea, Arsenal, Manchester City and Liverpool made up the Premier League's top six most valuable squads in that order.

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