November 8 – FC Barcelona prodigy Lamine Yamal’s rise continues to defy both age and arithmetic. According to the latest CIES Football Observatory Weekly Post, the 18-year-old is now valued at a staggering €350 million – comfortably the highest estimated transfer value of any player yet to celebrate their 20th birthday.
October 9 – The latest CIES Football Observatory report has revealed Chelsea as the club with the biggest net increase in squad transfer value over the past 12 months, underlining the ongoing financial power and asset-building strategy of the Premier League side with BlueCo at the helm.
August 5 – The third CIES Football Observatory Prospect Sheet has identified 18-year-old Spurs defender Luka Vušković as the Premier League player to watch for the coming season.
22 July – The second issue of the CIES Football Observatory Prospect Sheet, developed in collaboration with Impect, shines a spotlight on one of the brightest young stars emerging from Portugal: Rodrigo Mora.
June 19 – The latest report from the CIES Football Observatory highlights the growing dominance of a select few major sports agencies in European football, with the top firms now representing player assets worth billions of euros across the big five leagues.
May 22 – Brazil remains the undisputed powerhouse in global football exports, with over 3,000 Brazilian players having featured in foreign leagues since 2020, according to the latest report by the CIES Football Observatory.
May 15 – Real Madrid superstar Kylian Mbappé leads a new CIES Football Observatory ranking of the 100 players over the past two windows whose transfers now represent the biggest potential capital gains for their current clubs.
May 8 – FC Barcelona have once again cemented their reputation as world football’s premier talent incubator, with the latest CIES Football Observatory study ranking them among the top three clubs in Europe’s big five leagues for minutes played by Under-21 footballers this season.
May 1 – With the summer transfer window just a month away, the CIES Football Observatory has partnered with German data company Impect in a move designed to deepen the game’s understanding of emerging talent beyond Europe’s elite leagues.
April 17 – To mark the publication of its 500th Weekly Post, the CIES Football Observatory has turned its data lens on the next generation — highlighting the young players already amassing significant match experience in senior football before even turning 24.
April 10 – Paris Saint-Germain and Italy star Gianluigi Donnarumma has been named the top-performing goalkeeper in world football over the past year, according to new research from the CIES Football Observatory.
April 3 – Colombian side Envigado FC has been named the most locally–anchored club in world football, according to the latest CIES Football Observatory ranking.
March 27 – The latest study from the CIES Football Observatory has highlighted major differences in refereeing trends across the top 63 leagues worldwide, exposing significant contrasts between continents in how officials enforce discipline.
March 13 – Michael Olise has been named the best-performing attacking player in world football, according to the latest CIES Football Observatory study. The Bayern Munich winger, who joined from Crystal Palace last summer in a €53million deal, leads the rankings ahead of teenage sensations Lamine Yamal and Florian Wirtz.
March 6 – CIES Football Observatory’s latest study has identified the 100 players outside Europe’s top five leagues whose transfer values have surged the most over the past six months, with Porto’s Samu Aghehowa leading the way.