Everton's squad has been valued as being in the top 20 in world football having soared over the past year according to a leading football analysis company.
The Blues finished eighth in the Premier League for the second consecutive season but the value of their squad has gone up by almost £100million in a year from £297.9million to £397.58million in what was a 33.5% increase, in figures compiled by transfermarkt.co.uk.
Everton's valuation is the highest in the Premier League outside the so-called 'big six' and puts them in 20th place worldwide, in between 19th placed Valencia (£400.95m) and Olympique Lyonnais (£396.23m) in 21st place.
Newly-promoted Wolverhampton Wanderers, who finished above Marco Silva's side in seventh place, saw their squad valuation go up by a Premier League high 182.3% for the year from £94.52m to £266.85m.
The rest of the top 20 were – 1) Manchester City £1.05billion; 2) Liverpool 1billion; 3) Barcelona £958.95m; 4) Chelsea £861.98m; 5) Atletico Madrid £840.6m; 6) Paris St Germain £830.03m; 7) Tottenham Hotspur £793.35m; 8) Real Madrid £784.28m; 9) Manchester United £706.28m; 10) Bayern Munich £676.35m; 11) Juventus £670.95m; 12) Arsenal £569.03m; 13) Borussia Dortmund £547.47m; 14) Napoli £509.40m; 15) Inter £475.92m; 16) AC Milan £450.9m; 17) Ajax £437.58m; 18) RB Leipzig £429.03m.
Individually, Everton's players are valued as follows: Richarlison £45m; Jordan Pickford £36m; Gylfi Sigurdsson £31.5m; Michael Keane and Lucas Digne both £27m; Andre Gomes (on loan) £25.2m; Kurt Zouma (on loan), Idrissa Gueye and Yerry Mina all £22.5m; Bernard, Dominic Calvert-Lewin and Ademola Lookman all £18m; Theo Walcott and Cenk Tosun both £16.2m; Morgan Schneiderlin, Seamus Coleman and Tom Davies all £13.5m; Mason Holgate £6.3m; James McCarthy, Muhamed Besic and Jonjoe Kenny all £4.5m; Leighton Baines £3.15m; Kieran Dowell £2.7m; Ashley Williams* and Beni Baningime both £1.8m; Brendan Galloway £1.35m; Maaten Stekelenburg, Phil Jagielka* and Matthew Pennington all £900k; Luke Garbutt £675k. * = players being released.
