Albanian football player among most expensive youth in Europe says so

Alfonso Davies (Bayn) tops the exclusive list of the CIES football observatory with young football players born in the 2000s at the highest value of cardboard. Germany's champion Anaeni is the first of 180m euros worth of cardboard.

The winner of the Champions League leaves Jadon Sanchon behind (Berussia Dortmund, 125m euros) and Ansu Fatin (Barcelona, 123m euros).

The list could not miss the talented Albanian protector of Rome, Maras Cumbula, which is worth 21.6m euros, the 27th in this specific classification. At the Italian championship, only Juvenus' Culus Kulusevski is worth higher than Cubula, while Milan's Sandro Tonali is behind the Albanians.

According to CIES's algorithm, among the 12 footballers of the 5 leading leagues born in the 2000s at a value of more than 50m euros are four English (Jadon Sancho, Mason Greenwood, Bukayo Saka, Phil Faden), two Spanish (Ansu Fati, Ferran Torres), two Brazilians (Rodrygo Goes, Viníus Júnior), a Canadian (Alson Davies), a Norwegian (Er Haland), a Swedish (Deanlus) Cudova (Dangaada).

Two players born in 2003 figure out the top 100: Jude Bellingham (Berussia Dortmund, 44m euros) and Florian Wirtz (Beyer Leverkusen, 16m euros).