Quiz! Can you name the 50 most valuable footballers in the world?

Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang

After a World Cup, there’s always a slight shifting of the tectonic plates in terms of player values. Some young buck will make their mark and Real Madrid will try to sign him in an unthinking, reflex action like a goalkeeper leaping towards the ball.

Yet a player’s transfer value is decided by more than just talent: it’s also age, marketability (tragic but true), position and – crucially – whether a club is willing to sell.

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Alex Reid

Alex Reid is a freelance journalist and the former digital features editor at FourFourTwo. He has also written for the Guardian, talkSPORT, Boxing News and Sport magazine. Like most Londoners, he is a lifelong supporter of Aberdeen FC. He is deceptively bad in the air for a big man. He has never been a cage fighter.