How difficult is it to calculate the value of each Premier League team?
Very.
[ MORE: Van Gaal dismisses Pedro talk ]
With so many moving pieces and factors to consider, there are always so many arguments between rivals fans over which club is the biggest and most valuable. Maybe this study will help sort things out.
The guys over at Sporting Intelligence have come up with a rather handy algorithm to help sort this out, and here is exactly how these values have been calculated by Dr Tom Ma
rkham.
For those mathematicians among you, how does that look, reasonable?
Anyway, below are the results of the findings for all 20 PL teams and as you can see, there is a huge gap between tiny Bournemouth at the bottom and Manchester United at the top.
Do you agree with these valuations? Let us know in the comments section below.