This is (probably) the most valuable national team ever. Fernando Santos boasts a lineup of footballers worth €938 million for Portugal’s double commitment, with Rep. The Czech Republic (Saturday) and Spain (Tuesday) qualify for the final of the League of Nations. Bruno Fernandes is the most valuable of the 25 chosen, on a list in which the website transfer market values Cristiano Ronaldo at 20 million, the lowest amount since the captain was 19 years old.
It is no coincidence that many consider this to be the best generation of Portuguese football ever. The current value of the selection exceeds the rating that the same website assigns to it during the last European Championship: 872.5 million euros. TAs it is now, also at Euro 2020 (which was played in 2021), Bruno Fernandes led among the 26 selected by the coach (90M euros), followed by João Félix (80M), Rúben Dias (75M) and Bernardo Silva ( 70M). Ronaldo was worth 45 million, more than half of what he is now.
If we look at 2016, the year Portugal became champions of Europe, the growth is relentless. If the 25 currently chosen are worth 938 million, the 40 Fernando Santos used that year were worth 586.05 million. At that time, the difference between the most valuable (Ronaldo, 100 million) and the second (Bernardo Silva, 40 million) was large, in a list where more than half of those selected did not make the 20 million (today there are only seven worth less than that). Bruno Fernandes was stamped with a mediocre 7.5 million (today it is worth almost ten times more) and Eder, the hero of Euro 2016, who scored the goal that earned the team the trophy, in the final against France (1-0 ), was the second least rated (5M), losing only to Nélson Oliveira (4.5M).
Cristiano Ronaldo in free fall
Cristiano Ronaldo now has a market value of 20 million euros. Age (37) and the start of a troubled season as a substitute at Manchester United may help explain the value attributed to CR7 in the update released by the United States on September 19. transfer market. Only once did it have a rating of less than 20 million. It was December 4, 2004, when he was 19 years old and worth 18 million, a year after Manchester United bought him from Sporting for 15 million. Now, 18 years later, the five-time Ballon d’Or/The Best, who was worth 120 million in 2015 and 2018, is on par with Ricardo Horta (Sp. Braga) or Gonçalo Ramos (Benfica).
The value that the transfer market attributed to him over the years, Ronaldo did not always like. In January, Christian Swartz, one of the people in charge of the player ratings site, told: the athletic that CR7 the . blocked transfer market on social media because he did not agree with the 75 million euros he was awarded: “I think we made a list of 10 players aged 33 and over in which he was first, but he told us he was worth a lot more companions on social networks, they answered him and explained why he had that value and said to him, “You are number one in your age group.”
Bruno Fernandes vs. Bernardo Silva
O transfer market justifies the 85 million euros attributed to Bruno Fernandes in the last evaluation (June 16) with very favorable statistics: 9th most valuable player in the world; 6th most valuable in the Premier League; 1st most valuable in the “offensive midfielder” position and 1st among players born in 1994. Parameters that allow the midfielder to surpass Manchester City’s most untitled compatriot.
Bernardo Silva is the 17th most valuable in the world; 10th in the Premier League; 4th in the position of “offensive midfielder” and 2nd most valuable born in 1994. Therefore, he is the second most valuable player in the national team (80 million euros), for a luxury sextet: Rúben Dias, Rafael Leão, João Félix, João Cancelo, Diogo Jota and Nuno Mendes (see table).
Among the eight most financially noted Portuguese internationals are two midfielders, two defenders and two forwards. Also noteworthy is the rating of Pedro Neto (38M) and José Sá (18M). At the end of the table, that is, least valuable to the transfer markethis defender Mário Rui (Naples) and goalkeeper Rui Patrício (AS Roma), the only ones below the ten million threshold among Fernando Santos’ 25 players.
Source: DN
