The most expensive football team in the world - including FIVE Liverpool stars

Got a spare £1.4billion lying around? Well you can buy this lot then.

Any ambitious football club owners need to read on, as what follows is the most expensive XI that money could buy you today.

That isn't our opinion though, but the opinion of the good people at the CIES Football Observatory.

That's right, everyone's favourite football observatory have compiled a list of the top 50 most expensive players in the top five leagues (the top-flights in England, Italy, Spain, Germany and France, as if you didn't know), taking into account things like age, contract length and position to give what looks to be a fairly accurate transfer value for each player.

This Manchester City pair make it in (Action Plus via Getty Images)

And we've taken that list, looked at for a bit, had a bit of an argument and knocked it into what we feel would be a working XI that would surely have a more than decent chance of winning the Champions League. Especially as five of them have only just gone and won it the other week.

So here it is.

Goalkeeper: Alisson (Liverpool) - £95.7m

The Brazilian would be the game's most expensive keeper if he transferred now (Getty Images)

Right-back: Trent Alexander-Arnold (Liverpool) - £115.6m

And Liverpool got him for nothing! (Liverpool FC via Getty Images)

Centre-back: Aymeric Laporte (Manchester City) - £93.8m

Centre-back: Virgil van Dijk (Liverpool) - £99.8m

Van Dijk's value has increased by almost £25m since Liverpool signed him (SIPA USA/PA Images)

Left-back: Andrew Robertson (Liverpool) - £78.6m

Not bad for an £8m signing from Hull! (Mike Egerton/PA Wire)

Centre-midfield: Paul Pogba (Manchester United) - £111.1m

Pogba might need to sit back in this team (Getty Images)

Centre-midfield: Philippe Coutinho (Barcelona) - £114.9m

That's a serious drop-off from the £142m Barcelona signed him for 18 months ago (X01398)

Centre-midfield: Bernardo Silva (Manchester City) - £116.3m

Forward: Raheem Sterling (Manchester City) - £184.6m

Raheem is the third British player in the team (Richard Heathcote)

Forward: Mohamed Salah (Liverpool) - £195m

Salah completes the Liverpool quintet (John Powell)

Forward: Kylian Mbappe (Paris Saint-Germain) - £223.8m

The study found Mbappe to be the most expensive player in the game today (Getty Images)