💰 Who boosts player value best? Top 10, City, United flop, one Italian 🇮🇹 | OneFootball

A report from the CIES Football Observatory highlighted the clubs that have increased the value of their players the most, and those that have lowered the market price of their squad.

Let's look at the most virtuous cases (even if different from each other), the negative ones, and the situation of two Italian clubs.

The TOP 10 of those who have enhanced their squad

Below we see the TOP 10 clubs that have seen the overall value of their squad increase the most in the last year.

These teams have in common the ability to increase marketability in different ways, let's see how.

Chelsea, PSG, and Barça: 3 different growths

Chelsea (as described in this article) has bought many young players at medium-high prices in recent seasons, managing to enhance them by playing them in the first team or loaning them out.

In the last season, the club fully succeeded in this intent with players like Madueke, Petrovic, Ugochukwu, and others. For this reason, Chelsea bought a lot on the market but, thanks to sales, went negative by only 8 million.

PSG, on the other hand, had a different strategy: several promotions from the youth teams to the first team (Mayulu and Mbaye, for example) and many exploits of some players, who cost a lot in the past but turned out to be important assets: like Barcola and Doué.

At Barcelona, this growth is even more dependent on the youth teams: players of great value have constantly increased their price like Yamal, Cubarsì, and Fermin Lopez. At the same time, the Blaugrana launched new players, like Marc Casadò, who in one year went from "unknown" to being worth 30 million.

The enhancement of other teams

Some teams are in this ranking thanks to a solid technical project combined with great scouting ability: this is the example of Eintracht Frankfurt and Nottingham.

In the German team, Ekitiké, Marmoush, and Pacho have established themselves, representing major sales, while at Nottingham, the value of Elanga, Gibbs White, and Murillo has increased significantly.

Bournemouth has made Huijsen (now at Real Madrid), Zabarny (PSG), Kerkez (Liverpool), and Ouattara (Brentford) "explode" definitively, along with Justin Kluivert.

Brentford enters the ranking thanks to the names of Mbeumo, Wissa (57M to Tottenham), and the significant growth of Damsgaard and Van den Beerg.

This also applies to Bayern (Olise, Pavlovic, Urbig); Newcastle (Isak, Livramento, and Lewis-Hall among others) and Villarreal (Baena, Pino, Barry, and Pape Gueye).

FLOP Manchester City, United, and Milan. OK Fiorentina

The worst in Europe in this regard are Manchester United (-377 million) and Manchester City (-315 million) due to the last season being well below expectations for both teams.

Also poor for Milan (fifth from last at -147 million) for the same reason: a year that devalued Theo Hernandez, Leao, Maignan, Gimenez, and more.

Very well, however, for Fiorentina, the first of the Italians with +126 million in value: thanks to Kean, Comuzzo, Dodô, and the official sale last summer of Kayode).

This article was translated into English by Artificial Intelligence. You can read the original version in 🇮🇹 here.

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