March 12 – KPMG Football Benchmark have updated player market value estimates. Kylian Mbappe, Lionel Messi and Neymar head the list of players with the likely highest transfer price tags, while Inter Milan and Argentina striker Lautaro Martínez has increased his value more than any other player since November.
Mbappe’s value at €225 million is unmoved since the last KPMG ranking but both Messi and Neymar last value (€5 million and €10 million respectively) and are both valued at €50 million less than Mbappe.
The Football Benchmark data cover more than 5,000 players from the first divisions of Argentina, Belgium, Brazil, England, France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Portugal, Spain and Turkey, as well as the EFL Championship.
Most movement in the list is around players losing value. “Recent injuries cost Eden Hazard the heaviest loss (almost €17 million), causing a slip from the 4th to the 8th spot. Similarly, Harry Kane suffered a €5 million loss in value and dropped two positions due to having been out of action since the beginning of the year with a long-term injury. Yet another player with a decreased value (of over €6 million) is Antoine Griezmann, who thus has dropped out of the group, landing in the 11th spot,” say the KPMG authors.
Mo Salah, Raheem Sterling and Sadio Mane occupy the the 3rd to 6th place value slots, hovering around the €150 million mark, they are followed by the youngest player in the list, Jadon Sancho, valued at €139 million.
Perhaps more interesting is KPMG’s analysis of players who have increased most in value. Martínez sits at the top of the list after gaining more than €31 million in market value in the past three months. He is followed by Borussia Dortmund’s new signing, Erling Haaland, and RB Leipzig forward Timo Werner. Sancho is 4th in this ranking.
Four of the top 10 players by value increase are under 22 years of age, the youngest one being Manchester United’s Mason Greenwood (18). The oldest player among them is United’s new signing, Portugal midfielder Bruno Fernandes, at 25.
“Among the top 10 players with the largest increase in their market value, the German Bundesliga is represented by the most players (five), followed by the English Premier League (four), while the Italian Serie A is contributing only one player to this select group,” says the report.
“The fact that the Bundesliga is represented by five players in the top 10 increases ranking but only by one player in the list of the top 10 players by absolute value, suggests a tendency where the German top tier is an ideal league for young talents to develop and then continue their career abroad at more affluent clubs.”
See the full report at https://footballbenchmark.com/library/player_valuation_update_bundesliga_a_talent_incubator
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