Keep the thickness of the template Real Betis last year, which was the most expensive in the history of the club, to try to revalue its assets, is one of the main objectives that the Verdiblanca directive has drawn up, captained since this past summer in its sports field by Antonio Cordon Y Manuel Pellegrini, sports director and head coach, respectively, in charge of carrying out this revaluation to be able to return as soon as possible to the path of growth after the step back in recent months.
Real Betis has opted not to sell off any of its most important players in a declining market in which hardly any offers worthy of being studied have arrived -if perhaps the one from the MLS for Lainez, for the price it cost, about 14 million euros-, with the idea that Pellegrini can get much better performance from these same players than last season and many of them can recover the market value they came to have, or even exceed it.
To balance the demanding accounts of the salary limit, Betis will have to sell some cash before June 30, 2021 and its bet is to do so for an amount greater than what it could obtain for the same footballer in the current situation, in which the Transfer amounts have dropped abruptly due to the Covid 19 crisis in general and the poor performance offered by the Betic team in the past campaign in particular.
As of October 2019, Betis had a squad with a market value of 292.5 million euros -according to the specialized website transfermarkt-, at that time the sixth highest in LaLiga and the club with the highest value throughout its history. .
Today the value of the Sevillian team's workforce is 215.5 million
Today the value of the Real Betis squad is 215.5 million -the ninth in the category-, 77 less than a year ago despite maintaining practically the same players, who have generally suffered a notable depreciation of their value market. All in all, this is the second squad with the highest market value in the history of Real Betis, since the one that started the 2018/19 season to compete in the Europa League was valued at 180.5 million and that of the previous season, the 2017/18, started with a market value of 85.5 million -the tenth in the category-, which rose exponentially thanks to the emergence with Quique Setién of players such as Fabián, Loren or Junior, mainly.
In October 2015 and 2016, Betis ranked tenth in terms of staff value in the First Division, with valuations of 53.2 and 68.4 million euros, respectively. Today the value of the Betis squad is four times higher than it was five years ago, although comparatively it has only advanced from the tenth place at that time in the LaLiga ranking to the ninth place today, as there are currently eight teams with more squads. valued than Betica: FC Barcelona (878.5 million euros), Real Madrid (855.5), Atlético de Madrid (735.5), Sevilla FC (348.9), Real Sociedad (309.6), Villarreal CF (263.8), Valencia CF (244.7) and Athletic Club (221.1).
Borja Iglesias, Loren or Fekir have suffered a notable depreciation
In Real Betis players like Borja Iglesias (from 28 million to 8), Lainez (from 14 to 5), William Carvalho (from 30 to 20), Fekir (from 40 to 32, after reaching 70 in the summer of 2018), Sanabria (from 10 to 6.5), Loren (from 25 to 20), Tello (from 10 to 5) or Juanmi (from 10 to 3) have suffered a notable depreciation in recent months – it has become the majority, except Emerson, who rises, or Canales and Guido, who remain-, according to the same transfermarkt valuations, and the task of Pellegrini and Cordón is to revalue them by completing a good season in order to help balance the club's accounts and recover the path of economic growth in the last five years.