Bellingham, Musiala lead top 10 most valuable teenagers, featuring Liverpool, Saints talents

Jude Bellingham, unsurprisingly, tops the list, though he’ll fetch a lot more than that next summer. Premier League representation comes from Liverpool and Southampton…

Here are the 10 most valuable teenagers in world football, according to Transfermarkt.

1) Jude Bellingham (Borussia Dortmund)
Age: 19
Transfermarkt have Bellingham’s value pitched at €100million but if you turned up at Borussia Dortmund with 86million pound coins, they wouldn’t even answer the door. Especially after his World Cup heroics. Regardless of how the tournament pans out and how far England go with Bellingham in their engine room, the midfielder has enabled Dortmund to add another 20 or 30million to whatever figure they had in mind. Birmingham were laughed at when they retired his jersey number; now people are asking what took them so long. Where next?

2) Jamal Musiala (Bayern Munich)
Age: 19
Germany’s group stage exit came in spite of Musiala’s best efforts, with the Bayern attacker one of very few bright spots in another dark time for Die Mannschaft. Especially against Costa Rica, it was the teenager leading the charge, while more experienced team-mates left him to it. Just imagine if the former Chelsea academy graduate had chosen England over the country of his birth… *vigorously rubs thighs*

3) Gavi (Barcelona)
Age: 18
Pablo Martín Paez Gavira is the reigning Golden Boy and Kopa Trophy holder. The buy-out clause in his Barca contract is said to be worth €1billion. But, by all accounts, the lad still can’t tie his shoelaces.

🗣 | @marcmarba: “Gavi has been playing with his laces untied since he was very young, it’s because he doesn’t know how to tie them well. He doesn’t care and he plays like that.” pic.twitter.com/VSd9itc0bE

— La Senyera (@LaSenyera) December 18, 2021

4) Florian Wirtz (Bayer Leverkusen)
Age: 19
Germany might be sulking now but they have a bright future to look towards, with Musiala and Wirtz front and centre. Wirtz would have been in Qatar but the Leverkusen star could not recover in time from a cruciate ligament injury suffered back in March. “I don’t need to mention that we would have loved to have such a good young player in the squad,” said Hansi Flick upon unveiling his squad. “But he had a serious injury and is just back in team training. The most important thing for him now is to get fit again and he’ll certainly be an option in the future.”

5) Harvey Elliott (Liverpool)
Age: 19
Elliott has…