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http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/fo...le-Marouane-Fellaini-Fernandinho-feature.html
Gareth Bale’s £80million price tag when he moved from Tottenham to Real Madrid last summer caused plenty of eyebrows to be raised, and now a new report suggests the Spanish giants paid almost £30m more than the Welshmen is currently worth - even after becoming a Champions League winner.
Experts at the Swiss-based CIES Football Observatory have placed ‘market values’ on top players from around Europe based on a wide range of ‘objective’ factors from age and contract expiry date to position, performance data and international experience.
They calculate that Bale, 24, is worth ‘only’ £50.9m at market rates based on what a buyer should reasonably pay for him if he moved this summer. That is £29.8m LESS than Real Madrid paid for him last summer.
The CIES report says Bale was the ‘worst recruitment’ from a purely financial perspective last season of any player at a club in the top divisions across England, Spain, Italy, Germany and France.
Radamel Falcao of Monaco represents the next most over-valued player, ‘worth’ £25.6m less than Monaco paid for him.
Tottenham’s Erik Lamela, Manchester United’s Marouane Fellaini, Manchester City’s Fernandinho, Chelsea’s Willian and Tottenham’s Roberto Soldado are all in the top 10 of poor value players when considering fees paid and current worth.
‘The comparison between transfer fees paid by clubs to sign new players at the start or during the 2013-14 season and their current market value allows us to assess the best and worst recruitments from a financial perspective,’ the report’s authors say.
‘The highest “negative gap” was recorded for Gareth Bale (minus €37m, or £29.8m).
This finding reflects the fact that Real Madrid clearly paid over the odds to convince Tottenham to release the player.’
The authors say that at the other extreme, the German striker Max Kruse, 26, was the best buy of last summer. ‘The highest positive gap between fee paid and value now was observed for Max Kruse,’ they say. ‘Borussia Monchengladbach signed him for a bargain from Freiburg thanks to the existence of a very low buy-out clause.
‘His current market value is eight times greater than the €2m fee paid one year ago.’
They say that Manchester United’s Adnan Januzaj is the highest value player who made a debut in 2013-14 who cost nothing to their current club because they were produced by the club academy. They rate him as worth £10m.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/fo...le-Marouane-Fellaini-Fernandinho-feature.html
Gareth Bale’s £80million price tag when he moved from Tottenham to Real Madrid last summer caused plenty of eyebrows to be raised, and now a new report suggests the Spanish giants paid almost £30m more than the Welshmen is currently worth - even after becoming a Champions League winner.
Experts at the Swiss-based CIES Football Observatory have placed ‘market values’ on top players from around Europe based on a wide range of ‘objective’ factors from age and contract expiry date to position, performance data and international experience.
They calculate that Bale, 24, is worth ‘only’ £50.9m at market rates based on what a buyer should reasonably pay for him if he moved this summer. That is £29.8m LESS than Real Madrid paid for him last summer.
The CIES report says Bale was the ‘worst recruitment’ from a purely financial perspective last season of any player at a club in the top divisions across England, Spain, Italy, Germany and France.
Radamel Falcao of Monaco represents the next most over-valued player, ‘worth’ £25.6m less than Monaco paid for him.
Tottenham’s Erik Lamela, Manchester United’s Marouane Fellaini, Manchester City’s Fernandinho, Chelsea’s Willian and Tottenham’s Roberto Soldado are all in the top 10 of poor value players when considering fees paid and current worth.
‘The comparison between transfer fees paid by clubs to sign new players at the start or during the 2013-14 season and their current market value allows us to assess the best and worst recruitments from a financial perspective,’ the report’s authors say.
‘The highest “negative gap” was recorded for Gareth Bale (minus €37m, or £29.8m).
This finding reflects the fact that Real Madrid clearly paid over the odds to convince Tottenham to release the player.’
The authors say that at the other extreme, the German striker Max Kruse, 26, was the best buy of last summer. ‘The highest positive gap between fee paid and value now was observed for Max Kruse,’ they say. ‘Borussia Monchengladbach signed him for a bargain from Freiburg thanks to the existence of a very low buy-out clause.
‘His current market value is eight times greater than the €2m fee paid one year ago.’
They say that Manchester United’s Adnan Januzaj is the highest value player who made a debut in 2013-14 who cost nothing to their current club because they were produced by the club academy. They rate him as worth £10m.
