Austerity has marked a winter market where the pandemic has frozen soccer accounts. Long ago we were used to titanic transfers with what the big clubs sought to shake the emergency shaker before the final stretch of the season. Nevertheless, This January 2021 has been the month of accessories. Players mostly who fill gaps and, incidentally, will try to catch up in a campaign that was not going in the right direction.
Odegaard leads the change
Real Madrid has not added pieces to its gear, but it has lost some and one of them, Martin Odegaard, is the player with the highest market value that has packed his bags. The Norwegian midfielder, tired of the bench, asked to leave to unpack his season and the Whites have allowed it. The Royal Society did not take long to appear on the scene, given the stupendous symbiosis between Drammen and the txuri-urdin before Zidane's premature play-off. Nevertheless, It was Arsenal, which offered a salary higher than that received by the young Madridista courage in the Spanish capital, who won the race. Now Mikel Arteta will be in charge of molding a diamond that was disgraced in San Sebastián and that has lost its shine on its return to the Bernabéu.
The 40 million euros in which 'Transfermarkt' rates the new '11' gunner they surpass the 30 of Moussa Dembélé and Sébastien Haller. The rojiblanco, like the Norwegian, arrives on loan, in his case from Olympique de Lyon, but with the intention of earning his stay after the June exams. His role, that of a substitute for a Suárez thrown for the top scorer, is not easy, nor is it easy to make the player they come to replace, Diego Costa, forget. His scoring baggage with Les Gones in the last two seasons it is his greatest support (20 and 24 points). The poor level of the present campaign (only one goal in 16 games), his greatest must. As your podium partner, Haller, has become a very strong bet by Ajax used to selling and not buying, but that they have paid a more than reasonable price, 22.5 million euros, for a striker who came to West Ham in 2019 for 50, after forming a fearsome pair with Luka Jovic at Eintracht.
Madrid, protagonist
By allusions, we jump in this particular list and go to the final part of it, where the now-mentioned footballer appears. Jovic, after not following the high expectations created with his millionaire signing with so many, has sought the 'heat' of Frankfurt to revive his scoring nose. At the moment he is not on the wrong track, since he has already scored more goals (3) in 105 minutes with Eintracht than in 32 games with Madrid (2). The 20 million in which the specialized portal rates Jovic close, together with Morgan Sanson (to Aston Villa for 15.8 million), Willian José (on loan to Wolverhampton) and Take Kubo the top-10. The Japanese, after not finding what he was looking for in Villarreal, minutes and confidence, has changed Emery for Bordalás and His new loan in Getafe shows much greener shoots than his short stage in Castellón.
Considering the extremes, the intermediate positions are led by another player in relation to Madrid. Although, in his case, out of desire and not out of belonging. Dominik Szoboslai, whose tremendous irruption shook the first months of the season, changed cities (Salzburg for Leipzig), but not factory (Red Bull) despite the merengue interest and was put at the service of Nagelsmann for 20 million (his clause). Physical discomfort has prevented him from showing off his new shirt. So, the Austrian shares fourth place with Ozan Kabak, a bombastic reinforcement of Liverpool that takes one of the most promising centers on the continent and takes advantage of the situation of Schalke 04.
Most valuable transfers on the winter market
| Position | Player | Value (€ M) | New team |
| one | Odegaard | 40 | Arsenal |
| 2 | Dembélé | 30 | Atletico Madrid |
| 3 | Haller | 30 | Ajax |
| 4 | Szoboszlai | 25 | RB Leipzig |
| 5 | Kabak | 25 | Liverpool |
| 6 | Milik | 22.5 | O. Marseille |
| 7 | Benrahma | 22.5 | West Ham |
| 8 | Jovic | twenty | Eintracht F. |
| 9 | Kubo | twenty | Getafe |
| 10 | Willian Jose | twenty | Wolves |
| eleven | Samson | twenty | Aston Villa |
* In italics, loaned players (whether or not there is a purchase option).
The 25 million in which the winger and the defender are valued exceed the 22 of Arek Milik and Saïd Benrahma. The Pole, away from Naples, has stripped his daisy until only the petal of Olympique de Marseille remains, where he will try to help Villas Boas to get out of the current fallow. While West Ham made effective the purchase option that weighed on the Algerian left winger and has made him, incidentally, the most expensive signing of the winter. About 23 million listed as maximum investment and that illustrate the austerity that we mentioned at the beginning.