Liverpool, Man City, Man Utd: Premier League club’s most valuable former academy player

The benefits of youth academies aren’t just felt on the pitch, they’re big business for clubs.

In the Premier League especially, where plenty of clubs can afford to finance huge youth academies and fill it with the hottest future prospects, selling homegrown talent can provide a rather lucrative revenue stream.

So, it’s no surprise that we’ve seen clubs place a greater emphasis on growing their youth networks, to the point where it’s estimated that there are as many as 3,500 players within Premier League academies alone.

The sheer scale of the operation means that there are now many players across both the UK and Europe that have graduated from their institution and gone on to pastures new, but who’s the most valuable today?

Well, at bettingodds.com, they set out to find exactly that. Check out the full list of the most valuable players below: (All player values from Transfermarkt)

Arsenal – Serge Gnabry (Bayern Munich, £63m)

Aston Villa – Jack Grealish (Manchester City, £72m)

Brentford – Tyrick Mitchell (Crystal Palace, £15.3m)

Brighton – Ben White (Arsenal, £36m)

Burnley – Aiden O’Neill & Kyle Lafferty (Melbourne City & Kilmarnock, £0.5m)

Chelsea – Declan Rice (West Ham United, £67.5m)

Crystal Palace – Aaron Wan-Bissaka (Manchester United, £27m)

Everton – Ross Barkley (Chelsea, £11.7m)

Leeds United – Lewis Cook (Bournemouth, £8.1m)

Leicester City- Ben Chilwell (Chelsea, £34.2m)

Liverpool – Raheem Sterling (Manchester City, £76.5m)

Manchester City – Jadon Sancho (Manchester United, £72m)

Manchester United – Dwight McNeil & Michael Keane (Burnley & Everton, £19m)

Newcastle United – Adam Armstrong (Southampton, £14.4m)

Norwich City – Jamal Lewis (Newcastle United, £9m)

Southampton – Luke Shaw (Manchester United,