Bellingham is World Cup star with highest transfer value

With the 2022 World Cup specified days away, the CIES Football Observatory has been busily raking done the information to estimation which players taking portion successful Qatar would determination for the highest transportation interest if they were to power clubs successful the upcoming wintertime window.

The CIES uses its bespoke algorithm to delegate transportation values to each subordinate called up by 1 of the 32 nationalist teams taking part, and unneurotic they person a combined worth of €15 billion.

The astir invaluable subordinate successful each squad has besides been named based connected age, experience, the level astatine which they play their nine shot and the remaining duration of their existent contract.

Having scoured the latest report, present are the main talking points.

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Most invaluable subordinate astatine the World Cup

Borussia Dortmund midfielder Jude Bellingham is ranked by CIES arsenic the astir invaluable subordinate astatine the 2022 World Cup with an estimated transportation worth of €202m.

The 19-year-old England planetary is narrowly up of Vinicius Junior, with Real Madrid's prima Brazil guardant valued astatine €201m, making him the astir coveted subordinate successful the Selecao's 26-man tourney selection.

Despite his Paris Saint-Germain declaration being owed to expire successful the summertime of 2024, Kylian Mbappe inactive emerges arsenic Les Bleus' astir invaluable subordinate and the third-highest wide astatine €185m.

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Gab Marcotti and Julien Laurens can't recognize Borussia Dortmund's stance connected the aboriginal of midfielder Jude Bellingham.

Most invaluable squad

England person the astir invaluable squad astatine the 2022 World Cup, according to the CIES, with a cumulative full of €1.499bn. While Bellingham unsocial accounts for 13.5% of that total, it is besides boosted by teammates specified arsenic Phil Foden (€200m), Bukayo Saka (€120m) and Mason Mount (€100m).

Brazil person the second-highest worth squad astatine €1.455bn, mostly acknowledgment to their contingent of Real Madrid players. As good arsenic Vinicius, Eder Militao and Rodrygo are some worthy €110m portion Arsenal duo Gabriel Jesus (€120m) and Gabriel Martinelli (€100m) are besides up there. Neymar, whose €222m transportation to PSG successful 2017 remains a satellite record, is valued astatine €70m by the CIES.

Reigning satellite champions France are 3rd astatine €1.34bn. Les Bleus clasp their spot connected the podium adjacent aft the withdrawal done wounded of Christopher Nkunku (€120m) arsenic they inactive person young stars similar Real Madrid duo Aurelien Tchouameni (€100m) and Eduardo Camavinga (€90m) arsenic good arsenic Ousmane Dembele, Kingsley Coman and William Saliba (all €70m).

Least invaluable squad

Costa Rica person the lowest cumulative squad worth of each the countries acceptable to vie astatine the World Cup, according to CIES, with a full of €23m. Paris Saint-Germain's 35-year-old goalkeeper Keylor Navas, victor of 3 Champions Leagues with Real Madrid, leads the mode arsenic their astir invaluable subordinate astatine €4m.

Host federation Qatar are adjacent with an wide squad valuation of €29m with their highest idiosyncratic player, Almoez Ali of Al-Duhail, besides valued astatine €4m.

Messi and Ronaldo

By CIES' calculations, neither Lionel Messi (€25m) nor Cristiano Ronaldo (€20m) look arsenic their nations' astir invaluable subordinate among Argentina and Portugal's respective World Cup selections.

Argentina person Lautaro Martinez of Inter Milan (€99m) portion Portugal spot Ruben Dias of Manchester City (€118m) instrumentality apical spot successful their database of estimated transportation values, leaving the 2 astir decorated players successful the satellite lagging behind.

European elite predominate apical spots

While 5 antithetic confederations are represented, the highest-valued players among the 27 highest-valued World Cup squads each ply their commercialized astatine a nine successful 1 of Europe's "Big Five" leagues -- the Premier League, LaLiga, the Bundesliga, Serie A and Ligue 1.

Indeed, the highest-value subordinate astatine the World Cup to play extracurricular of Europe's large 5 is Iran's Mehdi Taremi (€20m), who plays successful the Portuguese Primera Division with Porto.