Manchester City’s poor form in the Premier League might have only started in November, but there are signs that the decline could be more of a long-term trend.
The Soccer Observatory of the International Sports Studies Center (CIE) publishes a list of the hundred maximum productive players in the Global Funded on Move Price each and every six months. January, Manchester City had 11 players on this list. That is more than any other club. This year, City has only seven of the hundred valuable maximum players.
The list is calculated by looking at a player’s ability, age, contract length, and the club and league they play in.
In all areas, player prices have declined this year, and as the list is denominated in euros, the player price has still fallen. The player with the highest price of movement, Real Madrid’s English midfielder Jude Bellingham, saw his valuation go from $293 million in 2024 to $258 million in 2025.
Real Madrid dominates the 2025 list. The Spanish giants have 10 players on the 2025 roster, and 3 in the five most sensible, with Bellingham Top, Vinicius Junior 3rd at $211 million, and the summer signed Kylian Mbappe in 5th for $180 million.
Mbappe, once, the beloved maximum player on the list, but fell to 27 last year with only six months to play in his contract in Paris Saint-Germain. His transfer to a genuine and new contract rejected Mbappe in the five maximum sensible, but now he is 26 years old, he is the oldest player of the first fifteen.
Making up the top five are Manchester City’s Erling Haaland in second at $228 million and Barcelona’s Lamine Yamal in fourth at $185 million.
The fall at Manchester City can be reduced to his age profile. City have very few players in their peak years, with a giant component of the existing squad just passing its peak and starting to decline in value. Three of the players on last year’s roster: Manuel Akanji, Nathan Ake and Jack Grenish have been. City also sold their third most useful player, Julian Alvarez, at Atletico Madrid, but summer signing Savinho replaces him as the third most useful player at City Haaland and Phil Foden.
The decline of the city is relative, Manchester Sky Bleu has more players on the list than the red side, because Manchester United has only 4 players on the list. Arsenal has the top league with 8 players, Liverpool has seven and Chelsea Six.
Barcelona also saw its number of players fall, from 8 last year to six this year. This shows how much football he can replace in twelve months as Barcelona’s top valuable player this year, Yamal, not on last year’s roster, while last year’s club top MVP, Gavi, is not on this year’s roster.
The biggest wonder is the appearance of Bournemouth’s January 2025 roster of two players, Ukrainian defender Illya Zabarnyi and Brazilian striker Evanilson. The Cherries have a sensational Premier League season, recently complicated for a European position and they perform even more than their league position according to the expected objectives. This comes from a clever task in the Move market, which is shown through the two Bournemouth players making the top 100.
Overall, 49 players on the list are from the Premier League, 20 from LaLiga, 13 from the Bundesliga, 12 from Serie A, four from Ligue 1 (all from PSG) and two from Liga Portugal.
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