Half of the top 10 most valuable young footballers in the world are either English or playing in the Premier League.
The new figures from the CIES Football Observatory underline the current dominance of the English game and the success of the player development pathways at the top clubs.
The analysis estimates the January transfer value for 60 players who are under the age of 23 in the five major European Leagues, which are the richest in the world. The Premier League boasts the largest share of the list with 17 young stars overall.
And when it comes to the top 10, the English top flight dominates with Manchester City's Phil Foden (21) and Ferran Torres (21) and Manchester United's Jadon Sancho, (21) and Mason Greenwood (20) all featuring, alongside another Englishman in Jude Bellingham (18), who plays at Borussia Dortmund.
Not surprisingly, given the most valuable commodity in football is goals, the top 10 most expensive young footballers are dominated by forwards.
Top of the pile are Borussia Dortmund's Erling Haaland (21), Real Madrid's Vinicius Jnr (21) and Foden, who CIES estimate would each cost £128million in the January window, with Greenwood, Sancho and Torres behind them.
Kylian Mbappe would normally be expected to top the entire list, but his dwindling contract at PSG means he is eligible for a free transfer next summer, thus his current transfer value is diminished.
Attacking midfield players also feature, with Bayer Leverkusen's celebrated teen, Florian Wirtz (18) and Barcelona's Pedri (19) listed at fifth and sixth respectively.
Wirtz held the record for the youngest goalscorer in Bundesliga history at the age of 17 years and 34 days when he scored a curler against Bayern Munich last season, and now sits second in the all-time list, behind Youssoufa Moukoko of Borussia Dortmund.
Bellingham, a box-to-box midfielder, is in at nine and the only defender to make the top 10 is Bayern Munich's flying full-back, Alphonso Davies (21).
The domination of English players and the Premier League in the list of most valuable young players, particularly in the top 10, reflects the impact of the Elite Player Performance Plan, introduced in 2012 by the top flight in combination with the EFL and FA.
The plan focuses on players from under-9 to under-23 and includes improving standards in academies, providing high-quality games and tournaments as well as ensuring a good quality education for youngsters.
Among those to benefit are Chelsea's Reece James (21), Mason Mount (22) and Trevoh Chalobah (22), who all feature in the long list of valuable young players produced by CIES.
Liverpool's Curtis Jones (20), West Ham's Declan Rice (22) and Arsenal's Emile Smith Rowe (21) are also prominent. The rankings also show the ability of Premier League clubs to tempt talent, whether that be English players who have been lured back to the country of their birth, like Sancho, or young foreign stars, like Torres.
The Premier League is widely considered to be the strongest competition in Europe, certainly in financial strength, and arguably in competitiveness too.
Liverpool forward Mo Salah was the latest to assert this view. Following the Reds' 1-0 win at Wolves on Saturday, Salah discussed his future and desire to stay in England.
'I prefer to stay in the Premier League as it's the strongest league in the world,' Salah said.
And his manager, Jurgen Klopp, expressed a similar sentiment last month. 'The Premier League is the toughest in world football,' said Klopp. 'This league is unbelievable.
'When I was in Germany people spoke about the best league in the world - some people thought it may be Germany. No, it's not... It could be Spain; maybe there were times it was Italy; but for a few years now for sure it is the Premier League. There is no doubt about that.'
The revenue earned by the Premier League clubs in 2018-19 amounted to £5.9billion, compared to their nearest rivals in La Liga, which brought in £3.4bn.
The impact of the player development pathways and the financial muscle of English clubs are now being seen in European competition.
Not only have English sides won the Champions League twice in the last three years, breaking the Spanish monopoly of the tournament, three of the top five and four of the top 10 clubs in UEFA rankings are now from these shores.
Manchester City, Liverpool and Chelsea line up behind Bayern Munich with Manchester United ranked ninth.
Five years ago, the ranking looked very different. In 2016-17, only Chelsea made the top 10 and they were ranked 10th.
