Messi,the $280 milllion man.

With the opening of a a new transfer window, the Football Observatory of the International Center for Sports Studies[CIES] has disclosed its exclusive top-100 ranking of the highest transfer values for big -5 league footballers.
At the head of the table is Lionel Messi with an estimated value between $255 and $281 million. For the first time, Eden Hazard rankls second. The Belgian is ahead of Cristiano Ronaldo. At club level, Champions league winner Barcelona outranks Chelsea and Real Madrid.
The CIES Football observatory  also presented for the first time the probabilities of fee paying transfers for 5 big leagues players. This was a major achievement of the research work carried out by our academic team during the last year. Many expensive footballers are to be found in the top 100 of this ranking, such as Raheem Sterling, Alexis Sanchez, Antoine Griezemann, Harry Kane and Philippe Coutinho.
More information is available in issue number 115 of the big 5 weekly post.The full data is presented in the sixth edition of the CIES Football Obsevatory Mont5hly Report. this publication also remains the unique methodology developed by our research team to estimate both transfer values and transfer probabilities of foootball players.