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Golden Boy award winners ranked from worst to first, including Messi, Pogba and Aguero

Nominees for the annual Golden Boy award has been announced and it features six Premier League-based players.

The prize is given to the best player in Europe under the age of 21 and has been handed out by Italian news outlet Tuttosport since 2003. Judges are formed of various journalists around the Continent and included The Times in England.

Swansea's Renato Sanches is the most recent recipient and here, talkSPORT looks at how other previous winners have fared.

The 2017 candidates
Aarón Martin (Espanyol); Jean-Kévin Augustin (RB Leipzig); Rodrigo Bentacur (Juventus); Steven Bergwijn (PSV); Dominic Calvert-Lewin (Everton); Federico Chiesa (Fiorentina); Ousmane Dembélé (Barcelona); Amadou Diawara (Napoli); Kasper Dolberg (Ajax); Gianluigi Donnarumma (Milan); Gabriel Jesus (Manchester City); Joe Gomez (Liverpool); Benjamin Henrichs (Bayer Leverkusen); Borja Mayoral (Real Madrid); Kylian Mbappé (Paris Saint-Germain); Emre Mor (Celta Vigo); Reece Oxford (Borussia Mönchengladbach); Christian Pulisic (Borussia Dortmund); Marcus Rashford (Manchester United); Allan Saint-Maximim (Nice); Dominic Solanke (Liverpool); Theo Hernández (Real Madrid); Youri Tielemans (Monaco); Enes Unal (Villarreal); Kyle Walker-Peters (Tottenham).