How many properties in Manchester could you buy for one Paul Pogba?

Ahead of the new Premier League season starting tomorrow, online estate agents HouseSimple.com have been crunching the numbers and worked it out so you don't have to.

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Warren Lewis
12th August 2016
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According to their reckonings, with Mr Pogba (currently the world's most expensive footballer) being valued at the princely sum £89m and average house prices in Manchester standing at the slightly less princely amount of £165,686, you could buy a staggering 537 average-priced properties in the city.

Not content with this one piece of essential football vs property research, HouseSimple.com have gone one step further and compared the average house prices for the 20 Premier League teams, with the price of their most expensive player, to draw up a property fantasy league table. It is based on the number of average-priced properties you could buy for that player. Thank you HouseSimple.com.

Although Leicester surprised everyone to lift the Premier League title last year, they only secured 8th position in HouseSimple.com's table, with Ahmed Musa their most expensive player at £16m, and average property prices, £194,196. That means you could buy 82 average-priced houses in the city for the price of Musa.

Hull finished rock bottom because they’ve only signed one player, teenage goalkeeper Will Mannion from AFC Wimbledon, for an undisclosed fee. It’s unlikely that he cost more than Pogba!

The following table shows the 20 Premier League teams ranked in order of the number of average-priced properties you could buy for the price of the team’s most expensive player:

Team

Average house price (£)

Most expensive player

Value of player

(£)

Number of properties

Manchester United

£165,686

Paul Pogba

£89,000,000

537.16

Manchester City

£165,686

John Stones

£47,500,000

286.69

Liverpool

£152,360

Sadio Mané

£34,000,000

223.16

Stoke City

£137,062

Joe Allen

£13,500,000

98.50

Swansea City

£162,332

Borja Baston

£15,000,000

92.40

Middlesbrough

£138,853

Marten de Roon

£12,800,000

92.18

Leicester City

£194,196

Ahmed Musa

£16,000,000

82.39

Everton

£152,360

Ashley Williams

£12,000,000

78.76

West Ham United

£343,202

Andre Ayew

£20,500,000

59.73

AFC Bournemouth

£257,561

Jordan Ibe

£15,300,000

59.40

Sunderland

£140,935

Papy Djilobodji

£8,100,000

57.47

Southampton

£247,291

Pierre-Emile Hojbjerg

£12,800,000

51.76

Arsenal

£754,871

Granit Xhaka

£33,800,000

44.78

West Bromwich Albion

£130,776

Matt Phillips

£5,500,000

42.06

Crystal Palace

£369,588

Andros Townsend

£13,000,000

35.17

Chelsea

£995,972

Michy Batshuayi

£33,200,000

33.33

Watford

£381,810

Isaac Success

£12,500,000

32.74

Tottenham Hotspur

£633,121

Vincent Janssen

£17,000,000

26.85

Burnley

£114,518

Johann Berg Gudmundsson

£2,600,000

22.70

Hull

£122,478

Will Mannion

Undisclosed

N/A

 Alex Gosling, CEO of online estate agents HouseSimple.com comments: “It shows just how crazy football transfer fees have become when you could buy several housing estates in Manchester for the price of United’s latest signing. We will wait to see whether Paul Pogba can perform as well as house prices have done over the past 15 years.”

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