There has been debate throughout the season about what the goals of the Valencia CF squad should be for the whole season after a summer market in which no player arrived and ten players left. The winter market has slightly balanced the balance in the sense that only one came out and four arrived: Ferro, Cutrone, Oliva and Piccini. It is, therefore, time to analyze the group of players in the Mestalla team compared to their competitors in LaLiga Santander and see to what extent the new reinforcements modify the initial approach. Go ahead, the analysis is based on data from the prestigious quotes portal Transfermarkt and that the team has less than half a season left to meet its objectives because the reinforcements already arrive without a Cup, with the team in the lower-middle part of the table and with only 17 games to play. that there are four highs -Cutrone, Ferro, Oliva and Piccini- that except for the right back could play this weekend and only one exit, Sobrino. That said, this is the Valencia CF squad after the winter market:
It was and is the youngest squad:
Just as you like Peter Lim and its youth policy, the reinforcements that have arrived are all under 24 years of age, which are what Oliva has, while Ferro Y Cutrone They are 23. It is out of the norm Little ones (28 years) which, as has already been published, was a failed assignment that was broken so that the player does not devalue further in Bergamo, where he has hardly played. This youth is undoubtedly a factor that directly influences the experience when facing
The Valencia CF squad has an average age of only 25.5 years. Yunus and Kang In Lee with 18 and 19 years are the youngest of the group.
Ferro and Cutrone training in Paterna (photo: Valencia CF)
The Valencia CF squad, the third with the most foreigners
After the transfer market, the international legion increases. Four reinforcements have arrived, all from outside. With 16 players from outside Spain, only Barcelona and Atlético with 17 surpass the group of Javi Gracia. Without a doubt, an amalgam that will not have to make integration difficult. Oliva has Maxi; Cutrone to Piccini and Ferro to Guedes and Correia to make adaptation easier.
Squad analysis according to transfermarkt
The sixth most valuable of Primera: 256 million
With a current market value of € 256 million, Valencia CF’s squad continues to be one of the most valuable in Primera. However, it is light years ahead of its predecessors. At the top of the ranking Barça with a market value of 807 million; that of Atlético de Madrid is worth 769; Real Madrid 742 and Sevilla with 343 complete the top five. The Royal Society is sixth with 337.90 million, almost one hundred more than the Valencian players.
Of the new ones, Cutrone with a market value of 12 million euros is the highest, followed by Ferro with 7 and Oliva with 3.20 million.
If football were numbers, yes, the value of the squad gives it to be much higher than the fourteenth position it crosses
Oliva and Maxi Gómez teammates in the Valencia CF squad (Photo: Valencia CF)