The Statisticians at CIES Football Observatory have released their list of the most expensive footballers in world football.

Today, we will be looking at the top five players ranked by the website who are currently plying their trade in the Premier League.

The prices are calculated using a number of different variables, including contract length, age, game time, goals, assists, passes, dribbles, national team participation and the economic level of the club they play for.

Press the next page as we list the five players in the English top-flight who are deemed to have the “highest transfer value”.