by Andrew Crawshaw
I thought I would look at the squad values of the clubs in the Europa League just to see how big the differences are between Arsenal (most valuable) and the others
Arsenal are in group H along with FC Köln, bate Borisov and Red Star Belgrade. Using the figures from Transfermarket.com to provide a consistent approach (although not necessarily related to actual transfer values paid this summer) here are the detailed figures for our group :-
| Arsenal | FC Köln | |||||
| Player | Value £m | Player | Position | Value £m | ||
| Alexis Sánchez | 58.5 | Timo Horn | GK | 10.8 | ||
| Mesut Özil | 45 | Thomas Kessler | GK | 0.45 | ||
| Alexandre Lacazette | 45 | Sven Müller | GK | 0.27 | ||
| Aaron Ramsey | 31.5 | Dominique Heintz | CB | 6.75 | ||
| Granit Xhaka | 31.5 | Frederik Sörenson | CB | 6.75 | ||
| Shkodran Mustafi | 27 | Jorge Meré | CB | 5.4 | ||
| Héctor Bellerin | 27 | Dominic Maroh | CB | 1.8 | ||
| Laurent Koscielny | 19.8 | João Queirós | CB | 1.35 | ||
| Olivier Giroud | 19.8 | Jonas Hector | LB | 18.0 | ||
| Theo Walcott | 18 | Jannes Horn | LB | 3.6 | ||
| David Ospina | 6.3 | Konstantin Rausch | LB | 1.8 | ||
| Petr Cech | 6.3 | Tim Handwerker | LB | 0.09 | ||
| Matt macey | 0.45 | Pawel Olkowski | RB | 2.03 | ||
| Rob Holding | 6.3 | Lucas Klünter | RB | 1.35 | ||
| Per Mertesacker | 5.4 | Matthias Lehmann | DM | 0.675 | ||
| Sead Kolasinac | 13.5 | Marco Höger | CM | 3.6 | ||
| Nacho Monreal | 11.7 | Milos Jojic | CM | 2.25 | ||
| Calum Chambers | 12.6 | Nikolas Nartey | CM | 0.27 | ||
| Mathieu Debuchy | 3.15 | Salih Özcan | AM | 0.675 | ||
| Francis Coquelin | 13.5 | Leonardo Bittencourt | LW | 5.4 | ||
| Mohamed Elneny | 9.0 | Marcel Risse | RW | 4.05 | ||
| Jack Wilshere | 16.2 | Christian Clemens | RW | 2.25 | ||
| Santi Cazorla | 10.8 | Yuya Osako | Str | 4.95 | ||
| Alex Iwobi | 9.0 | Jhon Córdoba | CF | 6.3 | ||
| Dany Welbeck | 13.5 | Simon Zoller | CF | 2.25 | ||
| Chuba Akpom | 0.9 | Artjoms Rudnevs | CF | 1.35 | ||
| Sehrou Guirassy | CF | 1.35 | ||||
| Squad value | 461.7 | 95.81 | ||||
| Other players | ||||||
| Krystian Bielik | 1.8 | |||||
| Julio Pleguezuelo | 0.27 | |||||
| Tafari Moore | 0.18 | |||||
| Aaron Eyoma | 0.045 | |||||
| Jeff Reine-Adelaide | 0.9 | |||||
| Gedion Zelalem | 0.225 | |||||
| Vlad Dragomir | 0.045 | |||||
| Ainsley Maitland-Niles | 0.675 | |||||
And our other two rival teams in the group…
| Bate Borisov | Red Star Belgrade | ||||
| Player | Position | Value | Player | Position | Value |
| Denis Shcherbitski | GK | 0.225 | Milan Borjan | GK | 1.62 |
| Sergey Veremco | GK | 0.135 | Damir Kahriman | GK | 0.315 |
| Anton Chichkan | GK | 0.045 | Nemanja Supic | GK | 0.09 |
| Nemanja Milunovic | CB | 1.62 | Abraham Frimpong | CB | 0.63 |
| Denis Polyakov | CB | 1.35 | Srdjan Babic | CB | 0.54 |
| Jurica Buljat | CB | 0.45 | Vijadin Savic | CB | 0.45 |
| Vitali Gajduchik | CB | 0.315 | Zé Marcos | CB | |
| Maksim Volodjko | LB | 1.17 | Milan Rodic | LB | 0.45 |
| Aleksandr Vologjko | LB | 0.63 | Dusan Andjelovic | LB | 0.27 |
| Evgeni Yablonski | DM | 0.45 | Marco Gobeljic | RB | 0.45 |
| Stanislav Dragun | CM | 0.9 | Filip Stojkovic | RB | 0.27 |
| Valeriane Gvilla | CM | 0.72 | Damien Le Tallec | DM | 1.13 |
| Dmitri Baga | CM | 0.54 | Branco Jovicic | DM | 0.54 |
| Evgeni Berezkin | CM | 0.45 | Uros Racic | DM | 0.27 |
| Igor Stasevich | RM | 0.9 | Filip Bainovic | DM | 0.18 |
| Aleksey Rios | RM | 0.81 | Mitchell Donald | CM | 1.18 |
| Mirko Ivanic | AM | 1.08 | Nenad Krsticic | CM | 0.9 |
| Mikhail Gordejchuk | LW | 1.62 | Luka Ilic | CM | |
| Nicolai Signevich | CF | 0.54 | Guélor Kanga | CM | 2.7 |
| Jasse Tuominem | CF | 0.225 | Nenad Milijas | AM | 0.27 |
| Anes Rusevic | CF | 0.18 | Ricardinho | LW | 1.26 |
| Vitali Rodionov | CF | 0.18 | Luka Adzic | LW | 0.45 |
| Nemanja Radonjic | LW | 0.27 | |||
| Slavoljub Srnic | RW | 0.99 | |||
| Nemanja Milic | RW | 0.54 | |||
| Richmond Boakye | CF | 1.18 | |||
| Aleksandar Pesic | CF | 0.9 | |||
| Dejan Joveljic | CF | ||||
| Squad value | 14.535 | Squad value | 17.845 | ||
As you can see there is an enormous variation between the clubs. The whole squad value of both Bate Borisov and Red Star Belgrade are below the individual valuation of Theo Walcott!
FC Köln have two players with values above £10m – Goalkeeper Timo Horn at £10.8 and Left Back Jonas Hector at £18m). Red Star Belgrade have 5 players with values above £1m with Centre Midfielder Guélor Kanga the most valuable at £2.7m. Bate Berisov also have 5 players above £1m with Centreback Nemanja Milunovic the highest valued at £1.62m.
Here is a summary of the teams in the other groups
| Group | Team | Country | Squad Value £m |
| A | FC Astana | Kazakhstan | 15.89 |
| Slavia Prague | Czech Republic | 28.8 | |
| Macabi Tel Aviv | Israel | 21.78 | |
| Villareal CF | Spain | 176.58 | |
| B | KF Skënderbeu | Albania | 5.72 |
| BSC Young Boys | Switzerland | 22.5 | |
| Partizan Belgrade | Serbia | 18.99 | |
| Dynamo Kyiv | Ukraine | 54.99 | |
| C | Braga | Portugal | 44.78 |
| Basaksehir | Turkey | 63.09 | |
| PFK Ludogrets Razgrad | Bulgaria | 40.68 | |
| TSG Hoffenheim | Germany | 107.66 | |
| D | AC Milan | Italy | 298.62 |
| HNK Rijeka | Croatia | 21.2 | |
| AEK Athens | Greece | 28.94 | |
| Austria Vienna | Austria | 18.36 | |
| E | Everton | England | 289.35 |
| Apol Limassol | Cyprus | 13.41 | |
| Olympique Marseille | France | 108.23 | |
| Atalanta | Italy | 111.22 | |
| F | Sheriff | Moldova | 8.98 |
| FC Copenhagen | Danemark | 28.89 | |
| Locomotiv Moscow | Russia | 54.45 | |
| FC Zlin | Czech Republic | 8.78 | |
| G | Viktoria Plzen | Czech Republic | 20.97 |
| Hapoel Beer Sheva | Israel | 17.51 | |
| FC Lugano | Switzerland | 12.76 | |
| FSC Bucharest | Romania | 24.35 | |
| I | Konyaspor | Turkey | 29.9 |
| Vit Guimarães | Portugal | 27.79 | |
| RB Salzburg | Austria | 36.65 | |
| Marseille | France | 138.51 | |
| J | Östersund | Sweden | 7.27 |
| Hertha Berlin | Germany | 81.41 | |
| Athletic Bilbao | Spain | 153.54 | |
| Zorya Luhansk | Ukraine | 14.51 | |
| K | OGC Nice | France | 110.16 |
| Vitesse | Netherlands | 21.92 | |
| Lazio | Italy | 162.32 | |
| Zulte Waregem | Belgium | 21.38 | |
| L | Rosenborg BK | Norway | 15.12 |
| Vardar | Netherlands | 21.92 | |
| Zenit St Petersberg | Russia | 108.18 | |
| Real Sociadad | Spain | 138.33 |
Arsenal have the highest squad value (£461m)of all of the clubs currently in the Europa League, AC Milan and Everton are second and third with values of £298 and £289m respectively.
There are then nine clubs with values between £200 and £100m. The lowest values are KF Skënderbeu £5.72m, Östersund at £7.27m, FC Zlin £8.78m, Sheriff £8.98m.
The squad values of course may not represent the values of the players actually on the pitch but is indicative of the resourses that eack club has available should it care to deploy its best players.
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Finally we are one of the “big spenders” eh? 🙂
In as much as the squad value of the Arsenal current players both senior and junior who can play in this season’s Europa League Cup look to dwarf those of their 3 group H opponent team players, I have to say am delighted Le Prof does recognise the fact that football is not totally based on mathematics calculations but on other projections too. And has in this light decided not to take beating BATE-Borisov at their backyard for granted but has equipped himself by taking along with him a very strong mixed Gunners team to Belarusaw to do the needful game win over BATE-Borisov tomorrow night’s at Borisov Arena.
With the compelling news that has emerged in the media in regard to the Gunners 18 man squad Le Prof had flew to Belarusaw today for tomorrow night’s Europa League CUp 2nd round group stage match between BATE-Borisov and Arsenal at Borisov Arena, I am compelled to do some changes to my earlier starts and bench that I’ve made for the match which I posted in my comment posting on this site on an article posting that threaded some couple of hours back today.
My reshuffled 3-4-3 starts and 7 man bench for the BATE-Borisov match.
Starts:
Ospina
Holding Mertesacker Mustafi
Maitland Wilshere ElNeny Kolasinac
Walcott Giroud Willock
Bench: Macey Gilmour Dragomir Akpom Nketiah Dasilva Nelson
The real challenge will come from the 3rd place CL teams which will be demoted to Europa League in the second round. Teams like Benefica, Celtic, Atletico Madrid, Dortmund are likely to arrive from CL and they will provide more competition.
Why is it that the value of Arsenal players always seems to be dramatically under-valued?