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Manchester United have made just £50million from selling home-grown talent in the last seven years - putting them only eighth on the list of English clubs.
The 2018 transfer of goalkeeper Sam Johnstone, for £6.5m to West Brom, was their most expensive departure, according to a new study released by the CIES Football Observatory.
Chelsea have collected the most money out of Premier League sides - at £175m - while Portuguese giants Benfica are way out in front worldwide at £316m, with over one-third of that coming from the sale of Joao Felix to Atletico Madrid in 2019.
Manchester United have made just £50million from selling home-grown talent in the last seven years - their most expensive departure was Sam Johnstone to West Brom for £6.5m in 2018
Benfica are out in front at £316m, with over one-third of that coming from the sale of Joao Felix
The Portuguese side are famed for their pipeline of talent from the club's academy, regularly selling their star assets for big money.
As well as Felix's £113m departure, Ruben Dias and Renato Sanches are other home-grown players who've left for large sums in the past seven years.
Second on the list is Real Madrid with a total income since June 2015 of £275m, with Alvaro Morata's second departure from the club in 2017 to Chelsea their highest sell-on at £60m.
Completing the top-three is Monaco, with the Ligue 1 club bringing in £238m. Over two-thirds of that was Kylian Mbappe leaving the club for PSG at a reported combined fee of £163m.
