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#4 Fabio Coentrao – Real Madrid – £8.93m decrease

MADRID, SPAIN - APRIL 29: Edgar Antonio Mendez Ortega (R) of Almeria UD tackles Fabio Coentrao (L) of Real Madrid CF during the La Liga match between Real Madrid CF and UD Almeria at Estadio Santiago Bernabeu on April 29, 2015 in Madrid, Spain.  (Photo by Gonzalo Arroyo Moreno/Getty Images)
Coentrao’s Real Madrid career has been nothing short of a disaster

Real Madrid fans on Twitter have only one response to Coentrao making an appearance in a Los Blancos shirt – ‘HE’S ALIVE!’

For a player to have made just 56 appearances in 5 and a half seasons at the club is downright awful. Coentrao being injury prone has also been a factor, as the left-back has missed 51 games for Real Madrid through injury.

It’s a poor return for the €30 million Real Madrid paid Benfica in 2011, with Coentrao just managing a paltry 150 minutes on the pitch in 4 appearances for Real Madrid this season. No wonder then, that the Portuguese defender has seen his value fall by 58.3% in 2016. He’s still 28 years old though, and can perhaps reverse the downward trend of his career.

Jan 2016 value: £15.3 million

Jan 2017 value: £6.38 million

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