After returning from his loan at Defensa y Justicia and after being one of the figures in the 2021 Professional Soccer League title,
River shielded Enzo Fernández at 20 million euros.
A year later (half in Argentine soccer and half in Portugal),
Benfica sells it for 121 million.
During that meteoric rise, in addition to his time in European football, there was
Qatar 2022
, the World Cup that the Argentine National Team won with Enzo as one of its main figures.
Therein lies the explanation that his price has risen six times in just one year.
Enzo Fernández was awarded as the Best Young Player in Qatar 2022. REUTERS/Kai Pfaffenbach.
After his arrival at
Chelsea , and according to what the renowned
Transfermarkt
site marks ,
Enzo Fernández today would be worth 55 million euros.
Taking the market values of mid-2022 as a reference,
he is the third footballer with the highest increase in its price worldwide in the last six months.
He is only surpassed by Georgian Kvicha Kvaratskhelia and Croatian Josko Gvardiol.
What was done with the National Team was key: his value in the days before the World Cup was 35 million euros.
Within the Top 20 footballers who have seen their value grow the most in recent months are two other Argentines:
Julián Álvarez and Alexis Mac Allister.
If the moment before the ball began to roll in Qatar is taken as a reference, the former River was quoted at 32 million euros but after his good performance with the Albiceleste, scoring four goals and getting into the starting team, his price to 50 million, more than a 56 percent increase
.
The
former Argentinos Juniors and Boca thing was also meritorious, especially for being a midfielder: he was worth 32 and today his record is estimated at 42, with an increase of more than 30 percent.
If we focus on the players of the National Team, one of the players with the greatest progress was
Lisandro Martínez,
who on his arrival at
Manchester United
raised doubts due to his short stature, but who ended up establishing himself as one of the great figures of the Red Devils.
The World Cup finished consolidating him as one of the best central defenders in the world and
his market value increased with the same records as Julián, from 32 to 50 million.
The Brighton supporters' flag for Alexis Mac Allister.
REUTERS/Toby Melville.
Another name coveted by the football market is that of
Cuti Romero
, who in 2021 came from Calcio to Tottenham and quickly established himself in the Premier.
After the glorious excursion through the Middle East, led by Scaloni and company, the former Belgrano from Cordoba continues with the little arrow going up: he went from being worth 48 to 60 million.
For reasons of age or because they did not sound for the European transfer market in January, the rest of the Argentine soccer players who won Qatar did not move their market value too much.
Rodrigo de Paul
, for example, went from 35 to 40 million, despite the fact that he had to go through certain questions at Atlético de Madrid.
Nahuel Molina
, his teammate on Cholo Simeone's team and author of a goal in the quarterfinals against the Netherlands, also made a numerical jump: he went from 18 to 22 million.
Lautaro Martínez is the Argentine player with the highest market value: 75 million euros.
AP/Luca Bizzarri.
Separate paragraph for
Dibu Martínez
, the best goalkeeper in the World Cup.
The man from Mar del Plata sounded for Bayern Munich but in 2022 he had extended his contract with Aston Villa, so his market value remained relatively stable despite his decisive role in the final against France.
It was worth 25 and is now listed at 28 million euros, all according to
Transfermarkt
.
The cases of Messi, Di María and Otamendi, to name the most emblematic, are no longer very important what their price is because they are footballers who are in the last stretch of their careers, so they are not bought by clubs but rather negotiated by themselves. their departure and arrival (if any) to another club.
Outside of La Scaloneta, there are several Argentine soccer players who saw their value grow this last year:
Facundo Buonanotte
(+8.95 M),
Sebastián Driussi
(+8 M) and
Máximo Perrone
(+6.5 M), all of them currently in foreign leagues.
And further back are local figures:
Mateo Retegui
(+6.5 M),
Luca Langoni
(+6 M),
Pablo Solari
(+4.7 M),
Santiago Hezze
(+4.6 M) and
Julián Fernández
( +4.35M).
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