An enormous report has been released by CIES Football Observatory which ranks every player at a major club in European football in terms of value, and the Echo have kindly pulled together every member of the Liverpool squad – bar new signings Loris Karius, Joel Matip and Marko Grujic.
The valuations are based on a number of categories, including player age, position, contract, international status and performance based against transfer fees from the past six years, to calculate a prospective fee.
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Only Coutinho and Emre Can are worth above £30m, according to CIES, while for us, Daniel Sturridge and Mamadou Sakho have been very undervalued.
On the other hand, Alberto Moreno and Jordon Ibe have been overvalued, but this is as a result of their age and lengthy contracts more than anything else.
Coutinho is our most valuable player at £40.95m, but there’s no way we would consider selling for that kind of fee. The Brazilian, to us, is worth double that – although we’re in no need to sell and should reject any advances from Barcelona or PSG this summer.
Here’s the 29 Liverpool players they’ve rated. Annoyingly, Joe Gomez has been missed out, as we reckon his value would be pretty high despite his lengthy injury.
What do you think, Reds? Who’s undervalued and who’s overvalued?
1) Coutinho – £40.95m
2) Emre Can – £30.93m
3) Roberto Firmino – £29.83m
4) Jordon Ibe – £23.73m
5) Alberto Moreno – £19.81m
6) Adam Lallana – £19.58m
7) Nathaniel Clyne – £19.26m
8) Christian Benteke – £18.25m
9) Simon Mignolet – £17.46m
10) Divock Origi – £16.84m
11) Jordan Henderson – £16.76m
12) Daniel Sturridge – £12.14m
13) Mamadou Sakho – £12.06m
14) Danny Ings – £11.75m
15) Dejan Lovren – £11.59m
16) James Milner – £11.28m
17) Sheyi Ojo – £6.42m
18) Martin Skrtel – £5.56m
19) Joe Allen – £5.01m
20) Lucas – £4.46m
21) Sergi Canos – £3.99m
22) Danny Ward – £3.99m
23) Brad Smith – £3.84m
24) Pedro Chirivella – £3.76m
25) Jon Flanagan – £3.13m
26) Cameron Brannagan – £3.05m
27) Tiago Ilori – £2.82m
28) Kevin Stewart – £2.74m
29) Connor Randall – £2.35m