Best transfers from an economic perspective: Liverpool and Juventus stand out

Issue number 247 of the CIES Football Observatory

Weekly"> presents big-5 league players whose current estimated value exceeds the most the fee paid by recruiting teams during last summer. Rodri Hernández (+€45 million) tops the table for fee-paying transfers ahead of

Lucas"> (+€44m), while Emre Can (+€45m) heads the rankings for free agents ahead of

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Juventus and Liverpool are the only teams with three recruits in the top 20 tables: Emre Can,

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Cristiano"> and João Cancelo for the former club, as well as Xherdan Shaqiri, Alisson Becker and Fabinho Tavares for the latter one. The excellent performances of both these players and their employer teams ex

plain in large part the magnitude of the gap observed.

Seven other clubs have more than one representative in the top 20 lists: Inter Milan (de Vrij and Asamoah), Napoli (Younes and Ruiz), Real Betis (López and Canales), LOSC Lille (Bamba and Ikoné), Everton (Bernard and Richarlison), West Ham (Wilshere and Anderson) and Arsenal (Torreira and Guendouzi). Current values were estimated using the exclusive CIES Football Observatory algorithm.