World Cup - Trade - Spain ranked first in value of players

For those interested in the world cup, I found this interesting analysis on Bloomberg...

June 11 (Bloomberg) -- The transfer market says Spain should win the 2010 World Cup, according to UniCredit Group.

The CHART OF THE DAY ranks leading football teams in terms of the combined transfer value of their players. Spain tops the list at 650 million euros ($787 million), followed by England, France and Brazil. The World Cup begins in South Africa today.

“The strength of a team is best reflected in the transfer value of its players,” said Andreas Rees, an economist at UniCredit in Munich. “The higher the price of a player, the greater the assessment of his football skills.”