Football clubs set up academies with the hope of developing footballers who are talented enough to break through into their first team.

Some teams, however, produce so many talented players that they make a sizeable amount of money from the sales of their youth products.

For this post, we have taken our data from the CIES Football Observatory, who have been assessing the profitability of academies across the world.

Press the next page as we count down the five Premier League teams who have made the most money from selling youngsters over the last seven years.