It consists of representatives of eight national teams
Courtois in goal, Kimmich and Dias in defense, Foden and Pedri in midfield, Mbappe and Vinicius in attack. How far do you think such a team could go at the 2022 World Cup? Specialists of the analytical company Tifosy have compiled a symbolic team of the most expensive football players of the World Cup in Qatar.
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Analysts followed a simple principle. Based on the classic 4-4-2 formation, they evaluated the most expensive players capable of playing in each position. The result was an interesting team, which included players from eight national teams – Belgium, Germany, Portugal, the Netherlands, England, Spain, France and Brazil, and its total value exceeded a billion dollars.
The “most expensive team of the 2022 World Cup” includes representatives of seven clubs. Interestingly, Bayern delegated the most players in the team – three players, Real Madrid and Manchester City sent two players each. One each – Liverpool, Borussia Dortmund, PSG and Barcelona.
If we talk about the division by role, then the most expensive are the midfielders. In the symbolic team of the most expensive players of the 2022 World Cup, all four midfielders have overcome the bar of 100 million euros in value. The most expensive – the Englishman Phil Foden from Manchester City – is estimated at 110 million. The average price of a midfielder playing at the World Cup in Qatar is 17.8 million euros.
This is 800,000 euros more than the average price of a striker in the Mundil 2022 – 17 million euros. Among the players of this role, the most expensive is the striker of the French national team Kylian Mbappe – 160 million euros.
The most expensive goalkeeper of the World Cup, the goalkeeper of Real Madrid and the Belgian national team, Thibault Courtois, is estimated at 100 million cheaper. And on average, the price of a goalkeeper participating in the 2022 World Cup is 7.4 million euros. The goalkeeper with the lowest transfer fee is 38-year-old Tunis goalkeeper Aymen Balbouli – 50,000 euros.
As for the defenders, the most expensive among them is the player of Bayern and the German national team Joshua Kimmich – 80 million euros. The average price of a player of this role at the 2022 World Cup is 13.3 million euros.
Source: Sportarena
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