CIES: Real Madrid - club with highest aggregate transfer value of players under contract (€1.728bn)

Real Madrid CF (LALIGA EA Sports) is the club whose players under contract (first team players, players on loan and those sold with a percentage on resale), have the "highest aggregate transfer value" with a total value of €1.728bn for 34 footballers, according to the CIES Football Observatory's "Weekly Post" published on 09/10/2024.

The Spanish club is ahead of Manchester City FC (Premier League), which has 39 players valued at €1.471bn, and Chelsea FC (Premier League) with 54 footballers valued at €1.388bn.

Paris Saint-Germain, the leading Ligue 1 McDonald's club, are in 7^th place (36 players, €1,088m). Bayer 04 Leverkusen (Bundesliga), in 10^th place (27 clubs, €862m), are the leading German club, while you have to drop down to 13^th place to find FC Inter Milan (41 players, €800m), the leading representative from the Serie A Enilive.

• "The estimates were calculated on the basis of a statistical model developed exclusively by the CIES Football Observatory," explained the research centre.

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