Four Leicester City players named in CIES’ most valuable U-21s

Four Leicester City players have been named in the CIES Football Observatory’s exclusive list of the most valuable U-21 players in Europe’s top five leagues.

CIES is a Switzerland-based analytics company that calculates player values using a unique algorithm, with factors as age, contract length, nationality and ability taken into consideration.

They released the latest of their lists on Tuesday, ranking the world’s most valuable young players (U-21) currently plying their trade in one of Europe’s top leagues (Premier League, La Liga, Bundesliga, Ligue 1, Serie A), naming as many as four Leicester City youngsters.

Only Liverpool (four) and their Tyneside rivals Everton (five) have an equal or higher number of players on the list (among the Premier League clubs), a reflection of how the Foxes’ future rests in safe hands.

The highest ranked Leicester City player is Wilfred Ndidi, who is placed at 11th with a value of £57.8 million. Behind him is 43rd-placed Demarai Gray, who has seen a 600% rise to go from the £3.5 million that City paid for him to £21.3 million. Gray is also the seventh highest Englishman on the list, with the highest being Tottenham Hotspur’s Dele Alli at second (£159.3 ).

Next Leicester player is Kelechi Iheanacho, ranked 56th with a value of £17.2 million, some eight million less than what the East Midlanders paid for the Nigerian prodigy. Finally comes Ben Chilwell at 84th position, priced at £10.8 million.

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Here are the top 10, as ranked by the Swiss company:

1. Kylian Mbappé

2. Dele Alli

3. Leroy Sané

4. Ousmane Dembélé

5. Marcus Rashford

6. Gabriel Jesus

7. Timo Werner

8. Anthony Martial

9. Christian Pulisic

10. Davinson Sánchez.

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