most valuable soccer players in the world have estimated market values reaching into the hundreds of millions of euros. Across some of the biggest leagues in the world, the average player values also extend into six or seven figures. The Premier League, often touted as the best league in the world, has a league-wide average player market value of just over 20 million euros.
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