QPR: How AI values Ilias Chair, Clarke-Salter and Sam Field's transfer worth | OneFootball

This is how much the QPR are estimated to be worth.

Queens Park Rangers have been disappointing compared to how they performed last season under Marti Cifuentes.

In the 2024 section of the 2023/24 campaign, QPR were a top-six team in the Championship. That's not hearsay or opinion: that's fact. Only five teams in the English second tier achieved more points than they did in that period of the season.

Off the back of that, and with a full summer window to work with, a step in the right direction was expected. They were going to finally move themselves away from the bottom three after years of narrowly avoiding it. That's not how it has played out.

They were in the bottom three for the whole month of October, and that worrying feeling of relegation potentially being on the cards - a feeling that fans of the R's will have become accustomed to - is back.

What won't help their case is if they lose players in the January window. Despite their league position, they have a lot of talent in their team; talent that other clubs might try to snatch from a struggling side in the new year.

How much could they potentially get for some of these players? Well, we can use a metric created by Football Transfers to make an estimation.

Their Estimated Transfer Value (ETV) is calculated by considering many different factors, including the age, position and experience of a player, their contract situation and what league they are in. Football Transfers also uses the power of AI to assist with creating the ETV of the more than 240,000 players that are in their database.

On their website, it says that they use: "a machine learning model that is trained on around 600,000 historical transfers to find patterns in the transfer fees paid for transfers in the past." This, combined with the many other variables involved, helps to lead them to their ultimate calculation of how much a player is worth.

Below is the ETV of three of QPR's star players; Ilias Chair, Jake Clarke-Salter and Sam Field.

Ilias Chair - £1.75 million

Chair has been one of QPR's most impactful players over the past few seasons, but a pre-season injury forced him to miss the first month and a bit of this campaign.

His lack of attacking contributions, compared to years gone by, could help to partially explain why Cifuentes' players have struggled to get results this season, but they do have other options like Karamoko Dembélé and Koki Saito, who can also play in a similar position to him, when healthy.

€2.1 million (~ £1.75 million).

Jake Clarke-Salter - £833,000

Despite the links to Premier League teams over the past year, Clarke-Salter has an ETV of just €1 million (~ £833,000).

Wolverhampton Wanderers were reportedly told by the R's, prior to the defender signing a new deal with the club in September, that it would take £10 million to get him away from Loftus Road; a significantly higher number than Football Transfers believe him to be worth.

Sam Field - £3.25 million

According to Football Transfers' ETV model, Field is the most valuable player on the QPR roster at €3.9 million (~ £3.2 million).

The central midfielder extended his stay at Loftus Road back in March, when his previous deal was coming to an end, although the length of time he has agreed to stay for is unknown.