Palmeiras top list for biggest player value rise by 2025/26 | OneFootball

The CIES Football Observatory released a projection this Wednesday estimating the appreciation of players by the end of the 2025/2026 season, and Brazil features prominently on the list. In total, 14 Brazilians were included among the 169 athletes from 23 leagues analyzed, with Palmeiras standing out as the most represented club.

Five names linked to the Alviverde are among them. Among the Palmeiras players mentioned are Vitor Roque, Allan, and Flaco López, as well as two athletes developed in the Alviverde youth system: Estêvão, now at Chelsea, and Vitor Reis, currently at Girona.

“This projection shows that the work of all of us is being recognized. For me, it's an extra motivation to keep evolving and helping my team on the field. Appreciation is a consequence, but the focus remains on training hard, competing at a high level, and seizing every opportunity that arises,” stated the Girona defender.

The CIES projection confirms a recent trend at Palmeiras: their athletes arrive in Europe already with a high market value, a result of consistent and increasingly robust sales. The club has been able to negotiate young talents at high levels, such as Vitor Reis, who became the highest sale of a defender in Brazilian football history, and Estêvão, transferred to Chelsea for equally impressive figures.

In the report, all the Palmeiras players mentioned show growth expectations, like Vitor Roque, whose value could rise from 83.9 to 90.1 million euros, and Allan, projected to more than double his price, from 4.3 to 9.3 million euros.

See the appreciation projections for players linked to Palmeiras

Academy product Estêvão gains prominence

The standout Brazilian is Estêvão, whose current market value, estimated by CIES at 121.5 million euros (R$ 768 million), could reach 135.7 million euros (R$ 857.7 million) in six months. The global leadership of the report is held by Ivorian Yan Diomandé from RB Leipzig, projected to jump from 45.7 million to 85.8 million euros.

The list also includes names like Rômulo (RB Leipzig), Wesley (Roma), William Gomes (Porto), Yan Couto (Borussia Dortmund), and Kauã Elias (Shakhtar Donetsk), reinforcing the Brazilian presence in different European markets.

Brazilians and foreigners from the Brasileirão in the CIES report

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