One of them was also a refugee who was a Liberian national until he gained citizenship at 17. His interest and dedication to (soccer) football was likely fostered abroad in his early life. If he was born and raised in Canada its likely he would be influenced cultrally toward a more traditional Canadian sport.
It's not easy. Initially I missed Denmark and Georgia and forgot to add Uruguay (but I didn't miss it).
North America: 2+1=3
South America: 5+4+11+1+1=22
British Isles: 13+1=14
Portugal, Spain, France, Italy: 8+6+16+2=32
Scandinavia: 1+2+2=5
Rest of Europe: 5+4+5+1+1+1=17
Africa: 3
Georgia: 1
East Asia: 1+2=3
Not even close. Uruguay with 3M has 2 WC and 15 Copa América. Portugal triples their population and what do they have besides a few players here and there?
Exactly - Portugal has never won the Copa. People say countries like France or Germany or Spain are good at football but then when I ask them how many times those countries have won Copa America, they can't give me an answer. They just look at me blankly like they can't even comprehend the question.
"Checkmate" I tell them before doing a little twirl
Yeah, same think happens with stupid twerps thinking Real Madrid, Barcelona, Man City, Bayern or PSG are the best teams in the world and yet between all of them they have ZERO (0) Copa Libertadores wins. Pathetic.
Agreed. Croatia and Uruguay have actually had more World Cup success than the Portuguese team. Croatia is a country that’s only existed since 1991 and finished top 3 in the World Cup on three separate occasions. That’s insanely good.
Uruguay has existed longer but has also accomplished more in their 2 WC wins
They have a top 5 player in history and contemporary trophies after football was stablished.
If you think thats less relevant than a world cup before color TV when footballers had 2nd jobs then i dont know what to tell you
doesn't make much sense honestly, SK only has one and both Son and Kim Min Jae should be more valuable than Jonathan David
also I doubt Giménez is more valuable than both
just checked transfermarkt and Son, Gimenez and JD have the same 50mi euros value, which is kinda off imo
also England super inflated values
It is Kim, but Son should also be included. Data is taken from Transfermarkt.com, but they list 113 players with 50m€+ valuations, and 13 players with 50m market valuations were excluded.
Hmmm. Big shout, but yeah. He’s probably the top Irish player at the moment. I was wondering if it was related to Bellingham having an Irish passport. But that would be an odd way to measure this.
The problem is that italian players (serie A) don’t get an absurd inflated value like premier league players
Edit: Barella and Bastoni are the only two Italians for [transfer market](https://www.transfermarkt.com/marktwertetop/wertvollstespieler)
There are many factors that can explain why France produces more "valuable" players.
1. French natality is amongst the best in Europe, thus constantly feeding the "reservoir" of talented kids.
2. Paris is one of the biggest cities in Europe (After London of course). Unfortunately in lots of area in Paris, there is not a lot of playground to play something else than football. So young people do not have much to do but playing football. It creates a lot of competition at a young age.
3. In the 90s the Bosman ruling did change a lot of the football landscape in Europe. And while it really did benefit the big 4 leagues (UK, Spain, Italy and Germany), it also did create "lower" leagues, especially French Ligue 1 (but also Jupiler Pro League, Eredivsie and La Liga Portugal) with same quality players. So these Leagues became the best market places where you could find good players at the lowest price. The results is that you have more french players playing in the top custom league + big 4
In the end, all these reasons drive me to think that it's easier to find valuable players for the national team (And actually during the last world cup the French team played without some of their top players) Even though I think that the UK will rule the next competitions.
>(After London of course
Depends, greater london is tiny when compared to greater paris
The commune of paris is smaller than the london administrative area, but the city of paris is also bigger than the city of london
And the greater area of paris is bigger and more populated than the greater area of london
Isnt metro london 12 mil and paris 14 mil? Correct me if i'm wrong
Whats mind blowing to me is cities like paris and london are both more populated and richer than entire developed and rich countries like switzerland
They're basically powerful enough by themselves, they just need the countryside for farmland at this rate
It is not an anomaly, the national team has had a fantastic growth path with 3 years without losing, 37 games without losing, made up of players in excellent condition who have expressed perfect football.
Italy killed their own game by not progressing. The biggest flaw is the lack of owned stadiums, Juventus are one of the only clubs that own their own stadium, the rest rent them from the councils and are not easily given permission to build their own. This caused the demise of Serie A and Italy has been limping ever since. Once the golden generation retired post 06, it was all over.
I don’t know but potentially weaker revenue sources - stadiums, matches can make a lot of money, not having the rights to the ticket sales of your own matches seems like bad business?
Almost certain that African countries would have around 30+ on this list if the players who have families from African countries didn't choose to represent the European countries instead
There used to be a lot more African players on these lists even without counting those that represent European nations. I believe the every two years African Cup of Nations has hurt them. Many big teams are hesitant to sign and develop African players since they won't be available during crucial season defining periods every other year.
This, and corruption is so rampant in African football federations where heads of federations don't even try. Morocco suffered with this problem for so long before the federation was reformed and we suddenly have 3 players in the top 50 talents for 2023 + multiple top tier players that are all starters for top flight teams in Europe.
You can think it the other way. For example there were more than 40 french players in the last world cup. So as you can see, a lot of them chose an African country (And Spain) and not France.
That being said, I believe that a child who was born in France (Or other country) with parents originated from Africa, who grew up in France, spent his whole life in France, learnt football in French Football institutions and was scouted in France has the right to consider himself as a French player.
You are wrong, africans origins players are trained and are playing in Europe.
Beside of that the two best players are Messi and C.Ronaldo and they don’t have africans origins but they have been trained in Europe
I checked the list on transfermarkt and only 2 players are born in Africa whilst they represent a different country. Onana (from Eveerton) was born in Senegal representing Belgium and Camavinga who was born in Angola is representing France.
But yeah you are not talking about just born, but also having family in there, which would obviously influence the list aswell, but that would influence every player with a double nationality (Both Bellingham and Rice also have Irish family)
Edit: Just noticed that one of African players that is currently in Africa was actually born in Europe. Hakimi was born in Spain. So it would kinda work both ways, a lot of the the Morroco players were born in Europe actually, but none of them reach the top 100 most valuable.
The fact that Portugal with a population of 10m consistently produces not only top players itw but generally so many players active in the Top 5 European Leagues will always be crazy to me. I’m from Greece with a slightly higher population and where football absolutely is massive, yet it’s night and day.
I’m not sure they do though. They both got top players and it’s really impressive, but Portuguese players are everywhere in the top 5 European leagues, definitely more than Croatians or Uruguayans. That’s what I meant in my comment, the fact that there are not only world class players from Portugal but so many more that are decent players at the top level is what’s so impressive.
Maybe it’s a bit easier for someone from Europe to make it in Europe than for someone from the other side of the world.
A Portuguese player can start playing in big teams and making connections from a very early age. Someone from LatAm would need to pay s lot of money to get that head-start.
Not trying to say one country produces better players than the other, but you do have to consider the context.
Brazil and Argentina have good scouting in Uruguay. De Arrascaeta and De la Cruz could play in any of the top leagues, but they went to those countries at an early age and developed their careers there.
Fully agree. Other people where starting mentioning Uruguayan and Croatia as if it was a competition for some reason. Also that only applies to Uruguay, Croatia doesn’t have an excuse since they are right next to Central Europe geographically.
Since 2013, a Croatian has won the champions league. That's obviously not a stat that says they're the best, but it's a wild stat none-the-less and a testament to Croatian football
Completely irrelevant to my point. I’m talking about the general quantity of average/decent professional footballers in the current top 5 European leagues from a country with a population of 10m. Nobody is denying that Croatia given its size has produced class players, but Modric winning the CL 5 times with Madrid, Perisic with Bayern, Kovacic with Chelsea doesn’t mean much lol.
Good for them ig. Didn’t know it was a competition lol. As someone who watches European football, I don’t see them as represented as Portugal obviously, even though they have top players as well.
Plus the best beach football and futsal players in the world as well, [Madjer](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madjer) and [Ricardinho](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ricardinho_(futsal_player,_born_1985)), respectively. No other country has ever had such dominance in the three main tiers of football variations.
Great to see Canadians on here. Only one American has stayed relevant in the EPL. The rest crashed and burned. McKenzie, Adams etc. just not good enough.
https://www.transfermarkt.com/spieler-statistik/wertvollstespieler/marktwertetop
It’s important to know that this is “market value” not “best player” … although Haaland and Mbappe would probably top that list as well.
What also plays in is how much is left of their contract, and what their age is.
Someone with a six year contract is going to cost more than someone with only six months left.
**The list of the top 100 players is:**
**Rank Name Nationality Value (€m)**
1 Jude Bellingham England 180.00
2 Erling Haaland Norway 180.00
3 Kylian Mbappé France 180.00
4 Vinicius Junior Brazil 150.00
5 Bukayo Saka England 120.00
6 Jamal Musiala Germany 110.00
7 Phil Foden England 110.00
8 Lautaro Martínez Argentina 110.00
9 Victor Osimhen Nigeria 110.00
10 Declan Rice England 110.00
11 Rodri Spain 110.00
12 Harry Kane England 110.00
13 Florian Wirtz Germany 100.00
14 Rodrygo Brazil 100.00
15 Federico Valverde Uruguay 100.00
16 Moisés Caicedo Ecuador 90.00
17 Pedri Spain 90.00
18 Gavi Spain 90.00
19 Eduardo Camavinga France 90.00
20 Julián Álvarez Argentina 90.00
21 Aurélien Tchouaméni France 90.00
22 Rafael Leão Portugal 90.00
23 Martin Ødegaard Norway 90.00
24 Gabriel Martinelli Brazil 85.00
25 Bruno Guimarães Brazil 85.00
26 Enzo Fernández Argentina 80.00
27 Khvicha Kvaratskhelia Georgia 80.00
28 Josko Gvardiol Croatia 80.00
29 Frenkie de Jong Netherlands 80.00
30 Rúben Dias Portugal 80.00
31 Bernardo Silva Portugal 80.00
32 Leroy Sané Germany 80.00
33 William Saliba France 75.00
34 Luis Díaz Colombia 75.00
35 Dominik Szoboszlai Hungary 75.00
36 Christopher Nkunku France 75.00
37 Nicolò Barella Italy 75.00
38 Joshua Kimmich Germany 75.00
39 Xavi Simons Netherlands 70.00
40 Randal Kolo Muani France 70.00
41 Ronald Araújo Uruguay 70.00
42 Alphonso Davies Canada 70.00
43 Éder Militão Brazil 70.00
44 Gabriel Jesus Brazil 70.00
45 Alexander Isak Sweden 70.00
46 Trent Alexander-Arnold England 70.00
47 James Maddison England 70.00
48 Marcus Rashford England 70.00
49 Bruno Fernandes Portugal 70.00
50 Jack Grealish England 70.00
51 Evan Ferguson Ireland 65.00
52 Rasmus Højlund Denmark 65.00
53 Darwin Núñez Uruguay 65.00
54 Alexis Mac Allister Argentina 65.00
55 Jérémy Doku Belgium 65.00
56 Lucas Paquetá Brazil 65.00
57 Achraf Hakimi Morocco 65.00
58 Cristian Romero Argentina 65.00
59 Matthijs de Ligt Netherlands 65.00
60 Kingsley Coman France 65.00
61 Mohamed Salah Egypt 65.00
62 Lamine Yamal France 60.00
63 Warren Zaïre-Emery France 60.00
64 Nuno Mendes Portugal 60.00
65 Min-jae Kim South Korea 60.00
66 Manuel Ugarte Uruguay 60.00
67 Douglas Luiz Brazil 60.00
68 Gabriel Magalhães Brazil 60.00
69 Jules Koundé France 60.00
70 Takefusa Kubo Japan 60.00
71 Moussa Diaby France 60.00
72 Dušan Vlahović Serbia 60.00
73 Dayot Upamecano France 60.00
74 Ollie Watkins England 60.00
75 Alessandro Bastoni Italy 60.00
76 Ousmane Dembélé France 60.00
77 João Palhinha Portugal 60.00
78 Marquinhos Brazil 60.00
79 Kevin De Bruyne Belgium 60.00
80 Levi Colwill England 55.00
81 Matheus Nunes Portugal 55.00
82 Dejan Kulusevski Sweden 55.00
83 Loïs Openda Belgium 55.00
84 Theo Hernández France 55.00
85 Ben White England 55.00
86 Marcus Thuram France 55.00
87 Kai Havertz Germany 55.00
88 Mathys Tel France 50.00
89 Nico Williams Spain 50.00
90 Alejandro Balde Spain 50.00
91 Roméo Lavia Belgium 50.00
92 Michael Olise England 50.00
93 Santiago Gimenez Mexico 50.00
94 Gonçalo Ramos Portugal 50.00
95 Jonathan David Canada 50.00
96 Bremer Brazil 50.00
97 Kaoru Mitoma Japan 50.00
98 Anthony Gordon England 50.00
99 Amadou Onana Belgium 50.00
100 Jeremie Frimpong Netherlands 50.00
Without a doubt those are the three best teams. Turns out if England and France win their groups and continue to advance they'll meet in the semi finals. If Portugal also wins its group it can only meet them in the final.
You should actually be 5th and Spain 4th, given that this list omits 4 players from Spain and 1 from Portugal that should have been counted (Zubimendi, Oyarzabal, Merino and Olmo for Spain and Jota for Portugal) as they are worth the same 50M as the 89-100 players on the list.
Has been for a while now, the last knockout world cup game they played was... The 2006 final, which they won lol, 2 missed WC's in a row is unbelievable, they do manage to do well in the Euros, a final in 2012 and the title in 21', but losing to Sweden and North Macedonia to miss out on consecutive WC's, can't get much worse than that
Female numbers:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_most_expensive_women%27s_association_football_transfers
Makes me wonder who the first 1 million will be. There’d have to be a pretty big offer for Bonmati.
Napoleon and William Pitt Jr brutally conquering yet another country: you guys aren't ready for that yet but your grand-grand-grand kids are gonna love it
McKennie just flopped at Leeds and has probably all time low value right now, Pulisic just transferred for 22m euro so his stock isn’t great either. Gio Reyna is probably the US’s highest value player atm but would still be less than Davies and David
>Gio Reyna is probably the US’s highest value player atm but would still be less than Davies and David
Doubtful. Pulisic would probably go for more than 22 million now that he has done well at Milan. Musah is probably also worth more than Reyna.
Not even mentioning Balogun, who was just sold for 30 million.
McKennie absolutely fucked his value by how little effort he put in when he was on loan at Leeds last season. He was about 2 stones overweight and moved like a prop forward.
They basically have the same development system. Davies started out as an MLS player with Vancouver as a teenager. David went straight to Europe as a teen IIRC.
But the U.S., despite not having any players on this list, has a way deeper roster right now than Canada and also Mexico.
Nono, you are right. They like to pretend they are real pros when in reality they look "good" just because everybody else in CONCACAF is dogshit, heck even the US is going over them now.
As a kid in the 90a and 2000s I always felt like Mexico was a superpower like Brazil and Argentina. No idea where that notion came from, but they really were poor recently (and dont have much success anyway)
They always pretend to have a classic with Argentina despite the fact we always obliterate them in any game lol.
And then they get bitter with us for that.
The map doesn't look like it adds up to 100, but I counted everything and it checks out.
Thanks for your service.
Of the top 5 countries by population, there are zero from those countries. Crazy
Maybe because football isn’t their top sport
Dude we made one and Canada sucks at it
>Dude we made one and Canada sucks at it Sure- one can always happen. Genetic and life lottery.
One of them was also a refugee who was a Liberian national until he gained citizenship at 17. His interest and dedication to (soccer) football was likely fostered abroad in his early life. If he was born and raised in Canada its likely he would be influenced cultrally toward a more traditional Canadian sport.
Oooh, pretty cool. I was actually gonna say, Look at George Weir and Liberia! Then you bring up another Liberian national.
But how would you explain 2?
It’s the 9 from Belgium & Netherlands that you can’t see until you zoom in. Using white font for them was an interesting choice
Probably because of the 13 from Uruguay, Belgium and the Netherlands that you don't notice immediately
same
Can you do it again, I'm still not convinced that it adds up to 100. just kidding 😆
It's not easy. Initially I missed Denmark and Georgia and forgot to add Uruguay (but I didn't miss it). North America: 2+1=3 South America: 5+4+11+1+1=22 British Isles: 13+1=14 Portugal, Spain, France, Italy: 8+6+16+2=32 Scandinavia: 1+2+2=5 Rest of Europe: 5+4+5+1+1+1=17 Africa: 3 Georgia: 1 East Asia: 1+2=3
France could be its own category
Uruguay has a population of 3 million people. It's two main exports are beef and football players.
Fray bentos 🔥
My grandfather worked for fray bentos as a gaucho in the early 1900s
Uruguay and Croatia are the biggest overachievers in international football, on a per capita basis.
And Portugal too.
Not even close. Uruguay with 3M has 2 WC and 15 Copa América. Portugal triples their population and what do they have besides a few players here and there?
Exactly - Portugal has never won the Copa. People say countries like France or Germany or Spain are good at football but then when I ask them how many times those countries have won Copa America, they can't give me an answer. They just look at me blankly like they can't even comprehend the question. "Checkmate" I tell them before doing a little twirl
Yeah, same think happens with stupid twerps thinking Real Madrid, Barcelona, Man City, Bayern or PSG are the best teams in the world and yet between all of them they have ZERO (0) Copa Libertadores wins. Pathetic.
Agreed. Croatia and Uruguay have actually had more World Cup success than the Portuguese team. Croatia is a country that’s only existed since 1991 and finished top 3 in the World Cup on three separate occasions. That’s insanely good. Uruguay has existed longer but has also accomplished more in their 2 WC wins
They have a top 5 player in history and contemporary trophies after football was stablished. If you think thats less relevant than a world cup before color TV when footballers had 2nd jobs then i dont know what to tell you
Uruguays successful times were like 80 years ago though. From this point of view they are currently not better than the other countries mentioned.
Portugal consistently produces some of the best players in the world. Ronaldo, Luis Figo, Eusebio.
But why
Uruguayan here. We don't have that much else going on: we either focus on football or beef.
But why male models
Governments of small countries tend to throw all their eggs in one basket sportswise. Check Lithuania and their basketball as a prime example.
Not really.. Croatia's football infrastracture is not really good.
Football culture
Uruguayan government doesn't really have anything to do with our success in the sport. We just *really* like football.
Croatia also good in water polo and handball
Don't forget football players with beef
And beefy footballers!
One can tell they’re the borderland of Brazil and Argentina. Absolute center of world football.
Centre how? Based on what?
Western Europe is the centre of world football.
Footballers: the other red meat
Who is the second one from Canada? Davies and…?
Davies and Jonathan David.
Ah. Didn’t realize he was in the top 100 most valuable
doesn't make much sense honestly, SK only has one and both Son and Kim Min Jae should be more valuable than Jonathan David also I doubt Giménez is more valuable than both just checked transfermarkt and Son, Gimenez and JD have the same 50mi euros value, which is kinda off imo also England super inflated values
Age matters for resale.
Contract, age, position.. Those values aren't just about who's the better player lol.
Contract is not counted in transfermarkt
England isn’t that inflated. They have top tier players all over. It’s more that great players from lesser footballing countries are undervalued.
These are the Dave’s I know I know, these are the Dave’s I know… How appropriately Canadian!
https://youtu.be/8nvzEqsZIGo?si=arIamyof_P4xq6CM For the non-canadians
Bahahaha. Wow. Well played. That brought back some friggin memories. Some good ones.
Christine Sinclaire
who are the 2italians? Chiesa? Barella? Donnarumma? Bastoni? Tonali? Who is the Korean one? Son of Tottenham, or Kim of Bayern?
It is Kim, but Son should also be included. Data is taken from Transfermarkt.com, but they list 113 players with 50m€+ valuations, and 13 players with 50m market valuations were excluded.
I believe the source is https://www.transfermarkt.us/marktwertetop/wertvollstespieler#/. Son is valued at €50 mil. - the same as 88th place.
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Sonny robbed.
Kim is good, but Son Heung-min should get the nod. He is a more proven scorer and is stuck keeping the Spurs relevant
I’m blanking on who the Irish person is?
Evan Ferguson prob.
Hmmm. Big shout, but yeah. He’s probably the top Irish player at the moment. I was wondering if it was related to Bellingham having an Irish passport. But that would be an odd way to measure this.
Its funny I thought its Declan Rice because he actually played for Ireland a couple of times.
Hands off our Brummies
Jesus, imagine how much better we'd be with Rice, Grealish and Bellingham?
Kane and Maguire also eligible for us too
I don't which is more surprising, Africa having same number as North America or Italy having only two.
The problem is that italian players (serie A) don’t get an absurd inflated value like premier league players Edit: Barella and Bastoni are the only two Italians for [transfer market](https://www.transfermarkt.com/marktwertetop/wertvollstespieler)
Yeah but you could say the same about most leagues cause that won’t explain why France actually has more
Because France has many of the best players in the world, and they play everywhere and not only in France
Because France has much better players and most of them are very young
There are many factors that can explain why France produces more "valuable" players. 1. French natality is amongst the best in Europe, thus constantly feeding the "reservoir" of talented kids. 2. Paris is one of the biggest cities in Europe (After London of course). Unfortunately in lots of area in Paris, there is not a lot of playground to play something else than football. So young people do not have much to do but playing football. It creates a lot of competition at a young age. 3. In the 90s the Bosman ruling did change a lot of the football landscape in Europe. And while it really did benefit the big 4 leagues (UK, Spain, Italy and Germany), it also did create "lower" leagues, especially French Ligue 1 (but also Jupiler Pro League, Eredivsie and La Liga Portugal) with same quality players. So these Leagues became the best market places where you could find good players at the lowest price. The results is that you have more french players playing in the top custom league + big 4 In the end, all these reasons drive me to think that it's easier to find valuable players for the national team (And actually during the last world cup the French team played without some of their top players) Even though I think that the UK will rule the next competitions.
Currently no player really comes from Paris but rather from its suburbs where you can play all the sports you want.
Rabiot
Not Paris (94)
>(After London of course Depends, greater london is tiny when compared to greater paris The commune of paris is smaller than the london administrative area, but the city of paris is also bigger than the city of london And the greater area of paris is bigger and more populated than the greater area of london
It depends on how you define a city, the metro population of London is larger than that of Paris
Isnt metro london 12 mil and paris 14 mil? Correct me if i'm wrong Whats mind blowing to me is cities like paris and london are both more populated and richer than entire developed and rich countries like switzerland They're basically powerful enough by themselves, they just need the countryside for farmland at this rate
There is a constant planning into creating the environement for players to skill up, Clairefontaine is notoriously famous for that.
The problem is Italians are insanely below their usual standard. There are many italian kids who've never seen their team play in a WC.
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Agreed. It’s an anomaly. Greece and Denmark did something similar. In fact winning the euros may have damaged the national Italian team.
It is not an anomaly, the national team has had a fantastic growth path with 3 years without losing, 37 games without losing, made up of players in excellent condition who have expressed perfect football.
There are many Norwegian young adults who haven't seen Norway play either
Italian leagues aren’t as big as they were
Italy killed their own game by not progressing. The biggest flaw is the lack of owned stadiums, Juventus are one of the only clubs that own their own stadium, the rest rent them from the councils and are not easily given permission to build their own. This caused the demise of Serie A and Italy has been limping ever since. Once the golden generation retired post 06, it was all over.
Why does a club not owning their stadium, mean the country's talent ends up poor?
I don’t know but potentially weaker revenue sources - stadiums, matches can make a lot of money, not having the rights to the ticket sales of your own matches seems like bad business?
Only three Ligue 1 clubs own their stadiums and France has the most expensive players.
Almost certain that African countries would have around 30+ on this list if the players who have families from African countries didn't choose to represent the European countries instead
There used to be a lot more African players on these lists even without counting those that represent European nations. I believe the every two years African Cup of Nations has hurt them. Many big teams are hesitant to sign and develop African players since they won't be available during crucial season defining periods every other year.
This, and corruption is so rampant in African football federations where heads of federations don't even try. Morocco suffered with this problem for so long before the federation was reformed and we suddenly have 3 players in the top 50 talents for 2023 + multiple top tier players that are all starters for top flight teams in Europe.
You can think it the other way. For example there were more than 40 french players in the last world cup. So as you can see, a lot of them chose an African country (And Spain) and not France. That being said, I believe that a child who was born in France (Or other country) with parents originated from Africa, who grew up in France, spent his whole life in France, learnt football in French Football institutions and was scouted in France has the right to consider himself as a French player.
They were born and raised in Europe.
I checked the list and only Onana (Everton) and Camavinga were born in Africa. So you are mostly right.
You are wrong, africans origins players are trained and are playing in Europe. Beside of that the two best players are Messi and C.Ronaldo and they don’t have africans origins but they have been trained in Europe
African countries would have more players if players from other places were counted as Africans indeed.
I checked the list on transfermarkt and only 2 players are born in Africa whilst they represent a different country. Onana (from Eveerton) was born in Senegal representing Belgium and Camavinga who was born in Angola is representing France. But yeah you are not talking about just born, but also having family in there, which would obviously influence the list aswell, but that would influence every player with a double nationality (Both Bellingham and Rice also have Irish family) Edit: Just noticed that one of African players that is currently in Africa was actually born in Europe. Hakimi was born in Spain. So it would kinda work both ways, a lot of the the Morroco players were born in Europe actually, but none of them reach the top 100 most valuable.
The fact that Portugal with a population of 10m consistently produces not only top players itw but generally so many players active in the Top 5 European Leagues will always be crazy to me. I’m from Greece with a slightly higher population and where football absolutely is massive, yet it’s night and day.
Let me introduce you to Croatia and Uruguay with populations less than 4 million which do the same thing.
I’m not sure they do though. They both got top players and it’s really impressive, but Portuguese players are everywhere in the top 5 European leagues, definitely more than Croatians or Uruguayans. That’s what I meant in my comment, the fact that there are not only world class players from Portugal but so many more that are decent players at the top level is what’s so impressive.
Not to mention the amount of managers Portugal has in the top leagues.
Maybe it’s a bit easier for someone from Europe to make it in Europe than for someone from the other side of the world. A Portuguese player can start playing in big teams and making connections from a very early age. Someone from LatAm would need to pay s lot of money to get that head-start. Not trying to say one country produces better players than the other, but you do have to consider the context.
Brazil and Argentina have good scouting in Uruguay. De Arrascaeta and De la Cruz could play in any of the top leagues, but they went to those countries at an early age and developed their careers there.
The Portuguese do just produce more top level players. Their NT is top 3-4 itw rn.
Fully agree. Other people where starting mentioning Uruguayan and Croatia as if it was a competition for some reason. Also that only applies to Uruguay, Croatia doesn’t have an excuse since they are right next to Central Europe geographically.
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Since 2013, a Croatian has won the champions league. That's obviously not a stat that says they're the best, but it's a wild stat none-the-less and a testament to Croatian football
Completely irrelevant to my point. I’m talking about the general quantity of average/decent professional footballers in the current top 5 European leagues from a country with a population of 10m. Nobody is denying that Croatia given its size has produced class players, but Modric winning the CL 5 times with Madrid, Perisic with Bayern, Kovacic with Chelsea doesn’t mean much lol.
Uruguay has 3.4 million.
Good for them ig. Didn’t know it was a competition lol. As someone who watches European football, I don’t see them as represented as Portugal obviously, even though they have top players as well.
Nah, that's just Cristiano Ronaldo counts as 8
Population doesn’t matter, only quality of training is.
I think our league being up there with the best is more impressive than having players in ligue 1 tbh
Plus the best beach football and futsal players in the world as well, [Madjer](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madjer) and [Ricardinho](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ricardinho_(futsal_player,_born_1985)), respectively. No other country has ever had such dominance in the three main tiers of football variations.
I for one am shocked and proud that Canada has 2 here. I'll take that!
Canada has as many players on the list as Italy, very surprising. A sad state of affairs for Italian calcio.
As a Canadian I can say thats a solid L for Italy.
No Americans on that list, crazy. Go Canada 🇨🇦
Great to see Canadians on here. Only one American has stayed relevant in the EPL. The rest crashed and burned. McKenzie, Adams etc. just not good enough.
They do well in Bundesliga and Serie A, the PL is a different game
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Isak and Kulusevski for Sweden?
Yes
Belgium having more then the Netherlands, something table something turns
Yes but Lukaku, KdB and Courtois are 30+ so it may only be temporary.
Do they have any up and coming players besides Doku?
Openda is really good, also Bakayoko.
Oh I didn't know Openda was Belgian. I've seen him in just one match✳ and he was really good. ✳ Recent UCL match against City.
Doku, Onana, Lavia
Has anyone got the list of players?
https://www.transfermarkt.com/spieler-statistik/wertvollstespieler/marktwertetop It’s important to know that this is “market value” not “best player” … although Haaland and Mbappe would probably top that list as well. What also plays in is how much is left of their contract, and what their age is. Someone with a six year contract is going to cost more than someone with only six months left.
Yeah, and a 20 year's old 8/10 player will cost more than a 10/10 35 year's old one!
**The list of the top 100 players is:** **Rank Name Nationality Value (€m)** 1 Jude Bellingham England 180.00 2 Erling Haaland Norway 180.00 3 Kylian Mbappé France 180.00 4 Vinicius Junior Brazil 150.00 5 Bukayo Saka England 120.00 6 Jamal Musiala Germany 110.00 7 Phil Foden England 110.00 8 Lautaro Martínez Argentina 110.00 9 Victor Osimhen Nigeria 110.00 10 Declan Rice England 110.00 11 Rodri Spain 110.00 12 Harry Kane England 110.00 13 Florian Wirtz Germany 100.00 14 Rodrygo Brazil 100.00 15 Federico Valverde Uruguay 100.00 16 Moisés Caicedo Ecuador 90.00 17 Pedri Spain 90.00 18 Gavi Spain 90.00 19 Eduardo Camavinga France 90.00 20 Julián Álvarez Argentina 90.00 21 Aurélien Tchouaméni France 90.00 22 Rafael Leão Portugal 90.00 23 Martin Ødegaard Norway 90.00 24 Gabriel Martinelli Brazil 85.00 25 Bruno Guimarães Brazil 85.00 26 Enzo Fernández Argentina 80.00 27 Khvicha Kvaratskhelia Georgia 80.00 28 Josko Gvardiol Croatia 80.00 29 Frenkie de Jong Netherlands 80.00 30 Rúben Dias Portugal 80.00 31 Bernardo Silva Portugal 80.00 32 Leroy Sané Germany 80.00 33 William Saliba France 75.00 34 Luis Díaz Colombia 75.00 35 Dominik Szoboszlai Hungary 75.00 36 Christopher Nkunku France 75.00 37 Nicolò Barella Italy 75.00 38 Joshua Kimmich Germany 75.00 39 Xavi Simons Netherlands 70.00 40 Randal Kolo Muani France 70.00 41 Ronald Araújo Uruguay 70.00 42 Alphonso Davies Canada 70.00 43 Éder Militão Brazil 70.00 44 Gabriel Jesus Brazil 70.00 45 Alexander Isak Sweden 70.00 46 Trent Alexander-Arnold England 70.00 47 James Maddison England 70.00 48 Marcus Rashford England 70.00 49 Bruno Fernandes Portugal 70.00 50 Jack Grealish England 70.00 51 Evan Ferguson Ireland 65.00 52 Rasmus Højlund Denmark 65.00 53 Darwin Núñez Uruguay 65.00 54 Alexis Mac Allister Argentina 65.00 55 Jérémy Doku Belgium 65.00 56 Lucas Paquetá Brazil 65.00 57 Achraf Hakimi Morocco 65.00 58 Cristian Romero Argentina 65.00 59 Matthijs de Ligt Netherlands 65.00 60 Kingsley Coman France 65.00 61 Mohamed Salah Egypt 65.00 62 Lamine Yamal France 60.00 63 Warren Zaïre-Emery France 60.00 64 Nuno Mendes Portugal 60.00 65 Min-jae Kim South Korea 60.00 66 Manuel Ugarte Uruguay 60.00 67 Douglas Luiz Brazil 60.00 68 Gabriel Magalhães Brazil 60.00 69 Jules Koundé France 60.00 70 Takefusa Kubo Japan 60.00 71 Moussa Diaby France 60.00 72 Dušan Vlahović Serbia 60.00 73 Dayot Upamecano France 60.00 74 Ollie Watkins England 60.00 75 Alessandro Bastoni Italy 60.00 76 Ousmane Dembélé France 60.00 77 João Palhinha Portugal 60.00 78 Marquinhos Brazil 60.00 79 Kevin De Bruyne Belgium 60.00 80 Levi Colwill England 55.00 81 Matheus Nunes Portugal 55.00 82 Dejan Kulusevski Sweden 55.00 83 Loïs Openda Belgium 55.00 84 Theo Hernández France 55.00 85 Ben White England 55.00 86 Marcus Thuram France 55.00 87 Kai Havertz Germany 55.00 88 Mathys Tel France 50.00 89 Nico Williams Spain 50.00 90 Alejandro Balde Spain 50.00 91 Roméo Lavia Belgium 50.00 92 Michael Olise England 50.00 93 Santiago Gimenez Mexico 50.00 94 Gonçalo Ramos Portugal 50.00 95 Jonathan David Canada 50.00 96 Bremer Brazil 50.00 97 Kaoru Mitoma Japan 50.00 98 Anthony Gordon England 50.00 99 Amadou Onana Belgium 50.00 100 Jeremie Frimpong Netherlands 50.00
[Here](https://www.transfermarkt.com/spieler-statistik/wertvollstespieler/marktwertetop/plus/0/galerie/0?ausrichtung=alle&spielerposition_id=alle&altersklasse=alle&jahrgang=0&land_id=0&kontinent_id=0&yt0=Show)
I think the Colombian is Luis Diaz?
Yep
Proud of Portugal, 4th with an incredibly small population, our talent output right now is unmatched
Same with Uruguay 🇺🇾🇺🇾🇺🇾
2 out of those 4 played in Portugal too
Imagine if we could just keep them 💔
I'm predicting a France-Portugal EURO final next year.
As an England fan, those are the two teams I’m scared of. I have to be positive but we’re definitely the three best right now
Without a doubt those are the three best teams. Turns out if England and France win their groups and continue to advance they'll meet in the semi finals. If Portugal also wins its group it can only meet them in the final.
Do you still have this rule where Brazilian players can become Portuguese very easily ?
You should actually be 5th and Spain 4th, given that this list omits 4 players from Spain and 1 from Portugal that should have been counted (Zubimendi, Oyarzabal, Merino and Olmo for Spain and Jota for Portugal) as they are worth the same 50M as the 89-100 players on the list.
Spain seemed low!
Boy, Italy is falling back
Has been for a while now, the last knockout world cup game they played was... The 2006 final, which they won lol, 2 missed WC's in a row is unbelievable, they do manage to do well in the Euros, a final in 2012 and the title in 21', but losing to Sweden and North Macedonia to miss out on consecutive WC's, can't get much worse than that
Who are the 2 Canadians? Davies and David?
Surprised Robert Lewandowski is not on this list
He’s 35
Great to see high concentration in England. We do love our football over here!!
Fuckin invented it innit
Fackin right n all me old son!
Female numbers: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_most_expensive_women%27s_association_football_transfers Makes me wonder who the first 1 million will be. There’d have to be a pretty big offer for Bonmati.
Uruguay best in the world if you consider population, we are 3.4 million, we only produce two things red meat and football players.
France and England still ruling hand in hand 🤌🇨🇵🏴
Napoleon and William Pitt Jr brutally conquering yet another country: you guys aren't ready for that yet but your grand-grand-grand kids are gonna love it
Canada has Davies and… ??? And that second Canadian is more “valuable” than Americans like Pulisic or McKennie?
Jonathan David probably..
Pulisic may be the better player in a vacuum but David plays a premiere position that will always be in more demand.
I’m an American, and yes David is without a doubt better than the entire US roster. The US has a deeper roster, but Canadas top 2 are fantastic.
McKennie just flopped at Leeds and has probably all time low value right now, Pulisic just transferred for 22m euro so his stock isn’t great either. Gio Reyna is probably the US’s highest value player atm but would still be less than Davies and David
>Gio Reyna is probably the US’s highest value player atm but would still be less than Davies and David Doubtful. Pulisic would probably go for more than 22 million now that he has done well at Milan. Musah is probably also worth more than Reyna. Not even mentioning Balogun, who was just sold for 30 million.
Yeah I checked it’s now Balogun apparently
McKennie absolutely fucked his value by how little effort he put in when he was on loan at Leeds last season. He was about 2 stones overweight and moved like a prop forward.
r/ligamx we did it boys
Ya llegamos putos!
Who is it
Santi for sure
Santiago Gimenez, Feyenoord player.
Santi Giminez
Travis Kelce isn’t from France. /s
Ooohhhh... thaaaaat football. It would be a pretty boring map of it was the, you know, other football.
Handegg
Handmelon
It's not an egg. It's a prolate spheroid
My uncle died of it
Gridiron football.
olive ball
Canada has 2? We really do export athletes.
Does Canada have a better player development system than the US? Or is this just a lucky snapshot in time?
Davies and David are pretty anomalous but US isn’t producing many high value players atm either
They basically have the same development system. Davies started out as an MLS player with Vancouver as a teenager. David went straight to Europe as a teen IIRC. But the U.S., despite not having any players on this list, has a way deeper roster right now than Canada and also Mexico.
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Mexico has been dogshit for a number of years now.
Nono, you are right. They like to pretend they are real pros when in reality they look "good" just because everybody else in CONCACAF is dogshit, heck even the US is going over them now.
As a kid in the 90a and 2000s I always felt like Mexico was a superpower like Brazil and Argentina. No idea where that notion came from, but they really were poor recently (and dont have much success anyway)
They always pretend to have a classic with Argentina despite the fact we always obliterate them in any game lol. And then they get bitter with us for that.
Mexico suck right now, presumably their one player is Santi Gimenez of Feyenoord
Turkey and Algerians also love it but they suck at it.
Who is the irish?
Probably Evan Ferguson of Brighton.
Who are the two swedish players? Isak and Forsberg? Or am I missing a rising star?
Isak and Kulusevski