The fees being paid for elite footballers seem to go up every single transfer window.
Yet, the world transfer record worth £200m/€222m, which Paris Saint-Germain paid for Neymar, has stood for nine and a half years.
A lot of that is down to the fact that the vast majority of clubs cannot afford to pay such sizeable sums on just one player. Even so, the CIES Football Observatory has attempted to value the best footballers in the world.
Press the next page as we count down the top ten most expensive players.