WHO WINS THE DIVIDENDS ON FOOTBALL INDEX?

A focus on three of the players who made the most money for traders in 2019

ASIDE from capital appreciation – buying a player and selling at a profit – the way to make money on the football stockmarket is through dividends.

These are payouts for each share you own in a player when they finish at the top of Football Index’s Matchday or Media Rankings.

Let’s have a look at three of the biggest dividend returners in 2019. LIONEL MESSI

Only the eighth most expensive player at £5.57 because of his age, Messi is nonetheless a dividend magnet when he turns out for Barcelona.

The Argentine regularly finishes top of the Matchday Rankings where players accumulate a points total for goals, assists, key passes and a number of other Opta statistics which culminate in them finishing the Matchday with a final score.

Football Index pays out for the top scoring defender, midfielder, striker and overall player on each

Matchday across the five top European leagues, Champions League and Europa League.

Last year, Messi returned £0.89 in Matchday Dividends and a stonking £1.41 in Media dividends, meaning if you’d have bought 100 shares in him at around the £5.29 mark early last January, you’d have benefitted from capital appreciation and made £230 in Matchday dividends on top. PAUL POGBA

After a bright start, Pogba had an underwhelming 2019 and did not deliver too much in the way of Matchday Dividends (just £0.09). But the constant stories around him being unhappy at Manchester United and the transfer speculation linking him with a move to Real Madrid meant he regularly topped Football Index’s Media Rankings, banking a stunning £2.11 per share for traders who owned him all year.

The Football Stockmarket pays out a dividend on the top trending player in the UK media each day, with the scoring system taking 25 different news sources and grading player mentions in article headlines. When there are no games, the top three trending players are paid out on. NEYMAR

A quick glance at the top of the stockmarket’s most valuable players and you will see Neymar – ‘The King of the Index’ – costing over £8 a share at the time of writing.

There’s a reason he costs the most. The Paris Saint-Germain star – playing for by far the best team in Lique 1 – returned £0.29 in Matchday Dividends and £1.32 in Media Dividends in 2019.

Who will you choose for your portfolio? Established stars or up and coming youngsters who could be tomorrow’s dividend winners?

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