A report from the CIES Football Observatory highlighted the clubs that have most increased the value of their players, and those that have instead lowered the market price of their squad.

Let’s look at the most virtuous cases (even if different from each other), the negative ones, and the situation of two Italian clubs.

Below we see the TOP 10 clubs that have seen the greatest increase in squad value overall in the last year.

These teams have in common the ability to increase their market value in different ways, let’s see how.

Chelsea (as described in this article) has bought many young players at medium-high prices in recent seasons, managing to increase their value by playing them in the first team or loaning them out.

In the last year, the club succeeded fully in this intent with players like Madueke, Petrovic, Ugochukwu and others. For this reason, Chelsea bought a lot on the market but, thanks to sales, ended up only 8 million in the negative.

PSG, on the other hand, had a different strategy: several promotions from the youth teams to the first team (Mayulu and Mbaye, for example) and many exploits of some players, who cost a lot in the past but turned out to be important assets: like Barcola and Doué.

In Barcelona, however, this growth comes even more from the youth teams: high-value players have constantly increased their price like Yamal, Cubarsì, and Fermin Lopez. At the same time, the Blaugrana have launched new players, like Marc Casadò, who in one year went from “unknown” to being worth 30 million.

Some teams, however, are in this ranking thanks to a solid technical project combined with great scouting ability: this is the example of Eintracht Frankfurt and Nottingham.

In the German team, Ekitiké, Marmoush, and Pacho have established themselves, representing major sales, while in Nottingham, the value of Elanga, Gibbs White, and Murillo has increased significantly.

Bournemouth has “exploded” Huijsen (now at Real Madrid), Zabarny (Man City), Kerkez (Liverpool), and Ouattara (Brentford), in addition to Justin Kluivert.

Brentford is included in the ranking thanks to names like Mbeumo, Wissa (57M to Tottenham), and the significant growth of Damsgaard and Van den Beerg.

This discussion also applies to Bayern (Olise, Pavlovic, Urbig); Newcastle (Isak, Livramento, and Lewis-Hall among others) and Villarreal (Baena, Pino, Barry, and Pape Gueye).

FLOP Manchester City, United, and Milan. OK Fiorentina

The worst in Europe in this regard are Manchester United (-377 million) and Manchester City (-315 million) due to the last season being well below expectations for both teams.

Also poor is Milan (fifth from last at -147 million) for the same reason: a year that depreciated Theo Hernandez, Leao, Maignan, Gimenez, and more.

Very well, however, is Fiorentina, the first among the Italians with +126 million in value: thanks to Kean, Comuzzo, Dodô, and the official sale last summer of Kayode).

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