Transfer Market has published its monthly report on the highest market value players in various leagues, including the Saudi League, whose players’ prices have varied significantly up and down, with 78 players receiving new ratings.
This summer’s transfer window broke the record for the most money spent on transfer fees, with Saudi clubs spending at least 957 million euros to include new players in a historic Saudi football transfer season.
The most expensive deal was to include Brazilian star Neymar from Paris Saint-Germain for €90 million, while top stars such as Karim Benzema and world champion N’Golo Kante joined in free transfer deals.
Radziewski, director of the Asia region at the site, explains that the current interim update of the Saudi Professional League is exceptional, with many top international stars moving from Europe’s top five leagues to the Kingdom. Radziewski explained that many new arrivals have signed the last big contract of their careers, which is also reflected in market value, in this age group.
Although Al-Nassr player Cristiano Ronaldo has not received a new market value and remains at 15 million euros, things have nevertheless gone “down” for the veteran star, who has dropped to 23rd place on the Saudi League player list in terms of market value.
Radziewski said that calculating market values at Transfer Market takes into account different pricing models, and members of the site discuss the values of the player’s market and evaluate them in detail. The objective is not to predict the price, but the player’s expected value in the free market.
Brazilian star Neymar continues to top the list of most expensive Saudi league players with market value with an estimated value of 50 million euros, despite the strong injury to the player and will be absent for the remainder of the season Al-Hilal Club teammates Sergei Savic and Portuguese Ruben Neves were second and third on the list with an estimated value of 40 million euros each, thus controlling the top three
The central star of Al-litthad Brazilian Fabinho IV, came with a market value of 38 million euros, while the club’s flank, Portuguese Ottavio, came in with 35 million euros.
The Brazilian Malcolm is in sixth place at 30 million euros, the value of the club’s private player, and the seventh-placed Spaniard Gabri Vega.
The eighth and ninth positions of Serbia’s Aleksandar Mitrovic, Al-hilal striker and Brazilian defender Roger Ibanez, are equal to Euro28 million, with Spain’s Emerick Laporte and Senegal’s Sadio Mane, worth Euro25 million.
In a look at the rest of the centres, Algeria’s Al Ahly wing, Riyad Mahrez, is 18th, worth 18 million euros, 3 million euros ahead of fellow Brazilian team Roberto Firmino and Al-litthad striker Karim Benzema.
Portugal’s Cristiano Ronaldo, the winner of Al-Nassr, is 23rd with a market value of only 15 million euros, while France’s N’Golo Kante is 26th with 12 million euros.
Al Ahli striker Faras Al Barikan is at the top of the list of Saudi players with the highest market value in the Saudi League worth 4 million euros, followed by club winger Abdul Rahman Ghraib with 2.5 million euros, and then fellow club Sultan Al Ghanam with a value of up to 2 million euros, equal to Hilal Salim Al Dusri and Hasan Timbuktu.
