The price you’d pay for Swans squad

SWANSEA City have the 43rd most valuable squad in Europe, according to the findings of a new report.

The Swans’ squad is currently valued at 168m euros, or just shy of £150m, placing them comfortably inside the top 50 most valuable clubs across Europe’s top five leagues.

Pep Guardiola’s Man City are ranked first with a squad value of 1.196bn euros, slightly ahead of Premier League rivals Tottenham who nick second spot ahead of La Liga giants Barcelona.

Chelsea and Manchester United complete the top five while Real Madrid, Liverpool, Paris Saint-Germain, Atletico Madrid and Juventus occupy the remaining top 10 positions.

The report – conducted by The Football Observatory – uses a scientific method to determine the value of players based on their performance, age and length of contract as well as taking into account the type of club likely to be interested in that player.

And according to their findings, centre-back Alfie Mawson is the Swans’ most valuable player.

Mawson is valued at 34m euros, around £30m.

The report deduced that Paris Saint-Germain’s Neymar is the most valuable player in Europe right now, with his estimated transfer value of 218m euros placing him ahead of Tottenham’s Harry Kane (186m euros), Here are their findings... Estimated transfer value of top 20 current squads (not including players loaned or on loan - figures in euros) 1 Man City - 1.196bn 2 Tottenham - 1.173bn 3 Barcelona - 1.13bn 4 Chelsea - 1.044bn 5 Manchester United - 919m 6 Real Madrid - 903m 7 Liverpool - 901m 8 Paris Saint-Germain - 864m 9 Atletico Madrid - 800m 10 Juventus - 743m 11 Napoli - 721m 12 Arsenal - 666m 13 Bayern Munich - 624m 14 Monaco - 604m 15 Roma - 595m 16 Borussia Dortmund - 482m 17 AC Milan - 457m 18 Inter Milan - 445m 19 Leicester City - 417m 20 RB Leipzig - 397m