FC Barcelona have some of the biggest names in world of football playing for them at this moment. Players like Robert Lewandowski, Ilkay Gundogan, Ter Stegen, etc. need no introduction as they are some of the most easily recognised faces in the sport.
However, these players are somewhat past their peaks, and their market values are not as high as some of the other players who are still very young but are performing at a very high level under Xavi.
Two such players that stand out in this regard are Gavi and Pedri, and as SPORT has reported, both these players are among the top 20 footballers who would receive the highest fee if they were transferred, according to data compiled by CIES Football Observatory.
In this list, Gavi ranks at the 7th place, as he has a market value of €175.4 million, while Pedri ranks 16th with a value of €125.2 million. These are the only two Barcelona players in the top twenty.
While the appearance of Gavi and Pedri at such a high ranking should be a cause of celebration for the Catalans, their happiness might be overshadowed by the fact that Real Madrid have five players in the top twenty.
Jude Bellingham tops the list, with a valuation of €267.5 million, while Vinicius Junior and Rodrygo Goes take the third and fourth position respectively. The second position is taken by Erling Haaland of Manchester City, while Federico Valverde and Eduardo Camavinga also feature for Real Madrid on the twelfth and fifteenth positions respectively.
CIES Football Observatory, which has published this data, is considered to be an expert in football related data analysis and publication. This list is their latest update on the valuation of players across the globe.
More than 6000 transfer fee payment transactions are taken into account to create this statistical model, which aims to provide some degree of predictability to the figures that would be involved in transfers of different players.
