Rodrygo and Vinicius, only in the shadow of Sancho and Haaland

The International Football Observatory (CIES) has carried out a study on the market value of the youngest footballers in the five major European leagues. According to his algorithm, he estimates what it would cost each player born from the year 2000, taking into account, among other things, his age, his contract end date, his team, his participation in the league and many other aspects. In the list of the fifty most valuable that they have made, there is no goalkeeper and the one with the most representatives is the Premier League (13), followed by the Santander League (12) and Ligue 1 (12), the Bundesliga (7 ) and Series A (6). Together they add an estimated value of 1504.2 million euros.

Dominion of Borussia Dortmund

The first two places on the list are occupied by the pearls of the Borussia Dortmund. The first is Jadon Sancho, who is priced at 198.5 million euros, a figure that if materialized would mean a record transfer and to which few footballers in the world could aspire (perhaps the French striker of the PSG, Kylian Mbappé, out of the list by age). English is a star in Germany and despite the fact that his contract expires in 2022, it is expected that a great offer of the Premier League to get him out of there. The second place in the ranking is for Erling Haaland. The Norwegian, newcomer to the Bundesliga coming from RB Salzburg, would now cost around 101 million, being only these two soccer players the ones that pass the barrier of the hundred.

The future of Real Madrid

Real Madrid has invested in young talents in recent years and according to the report it would already be reaping its fruits off the field. The position on the list is for Rodrygo, who would already be worth 88.9 million, almost double what it cost. Unlike Sancho and Haaland, he is the only one on the podium who no first team record. Another Brazilian is fourth: Vinicius Junior. The winger, considered one of the most skilled in the world when facing rivals, It has a value of 73.9 million euros. It costs much more now than they paid the Flamengo in his day for him.

But the two of them are not the only players from the white club who have sneaked into the table. Takefusa Kubo is number 13. The Japanese loan on Mallorca is worth according to CIES 41.2 million euros, a great deal for Real Madrid, which brought it at zero cost and which has charged two million for its transfer to the Balearic team while it has minutes and its price increases. And the last to arrive, Reinier, also appears on the list, at number 29. The portal thinks that a premium was paid by the young Brazilian considering that he has not yet debuted in the Spanish league, since they give him an estimated market value of 12.7 million euros (just over a third of what they paid for it). It is clear that Real Madrid has a future in its squad.

Ansu Fati, the only Barça player

Ansu Fati has debuted this season in first and in the Champions League, breaking records and rubbing shoulders with Leo Messi. The Barcelona he sees in him his player of the future (in the short term no one else is in sight), and despite his young age he has become a very important footballer. The youth squad is the twelfth in the classification with an estimated price of 42.7 million euros.

Other talents of the Santander League

A third of the Santander League players on the list belong to Real Madrid, but that does not mean that the rest of the teams do not have young and valuable talents. Valencia have two millennials on the list: Ferrán Torres, sixth with a value of 55.2 million, and Kang-in Lee, whose valuation is 21.9 million. Betis (DIego Lainez), Athletic Bilbao (Unai Vencedor), Real Sociedad (Ander Barrenetxea), Atlético de Madrid (Sergio Camello), Espanyol (Víctor Gómez), also have representatives among the fifty young people with the highest market value.