Anfield Watch
·16 May 2024
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·16 May 2024
Liverpool are heading into a massive summer transfer window with many questions to be answered, and likely several key arrivals and departures.
The departure of manger Jurgen Klopp, and the return of Michael Edwards to head up a new backroom structure, is set to produce a window like no other when it comes to change in the red half of Merseyside.
Edwards and his team - apart from hiring a new manager with Arne Slot of Feyenoord the hot favourite - have crucial decisions to make about key members of the current first-team squad.
Mo Salah, Trent Alexander-Arnold and Virgil van Dijk are all about to enter the final years of their existing contracts, leaving them and the Reds to decide what happens next.
So how much would that trio actually be worth on the open market right now? We have current values (or eTV - estimated Transfer Value) for every member of the first-team squad. And this is not guesswork - more on how these values are calculated to come...
Right now transfer values for the first-team squad look like this:
NB: All values correct on May 1, 2024
All the values come from a cutting-edge algorithm developed by Dutch data geniuses SciSports and FootballTransfers, called eTV (estimated Transfer Value).
It factors in all the most important data points at play - this is not a few kids sat in a room arguing how much Mo Salah is worth right now. The values include the following factors:
This means as the summer goes on, expect more changes. Salah, van Dijk and Alexander-Arnold will all decrease in value as every day passes without new deals being done. And age becomes more of a factor for VVD and Mo.
With Premier clubs putting ever more focus on data - this is the 'Moneyball' era in British football - all of these things will play into the price for any summer deals.