The Most Valuable Football Players 2021

The Most Valuable Football Players 2021. The CIES Football Observatory is a service, which has published a list of the world’s most valuable footballers. The results may surprise you! Who is the most valuable football player in 2021?

At first, CIES prepare publications using strictly scientific methods. Also in case of determining values of players from five top leagues of Europe. CIES specialists are calculating things on the basis of an algorithm that takes into account many variables, including a player’s age, reputation, career development, contract length, performances, but also inflation or the finances of the club he plays for.

Who is the most valuable football player?

This year Marcus Rashford turned out to be the most valuable! This 23-year old striker is one of the biggest stars of Manchester United. He is worth EUR 165.6 million. According to the authors  Erling Haaland, Trent Alexander-Arnold (the most valuable defender) and Bruno Fernandes are worth over 150 million euros. On the other side of the playing field, Ederson Moares was rated the most valuable goalkeeper (80 million). There are also some surprises!

The Most Valuable Football Players – how much are worth the most popular players?

‘The „old era players” like Cristiano Ronaldo or Robert Lewandowski are worth less than for example Bukayo Saka, a teenager from Arsenal. He was valued EUR 116 million. His value is higher than even Harry Kane! Mason Greenwood is valued EUR 20 million higher than Joshua Kimmich, and Dejan Kulusevski over EUR 82 million. As mentioned, Robert Lewandowski is worth „only” EUR 72.1 milion. 32-year old football player is 55th on the list. On the 97th place there is 33-year-old Leo Messi (54 million), and far beyond the top 100, on 131th position there is 35-year-old Cristiano Ronaldo (47 million).

List of the world’s most valuable footballers is published every two years. In early 2019, Kylian Mbappe was the number one. Now he has fallen to fifth place, because he only has 18 months until the end of his contract with PSG. You can check the whole list there.

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