#4 Yannick Carrasco (Atletico Madrid) - £85 million – Too High
Realistic Value: £45 million
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Young? Yes. Promising? Certainly. In good form? Definitely. Worth £85 million? Not a chance.
The Belgian has been solid this campaign so far, scoring 6 goals in 20 appearances, creating 12 goal-scoring chances along the way. That said, for the Spaniards to put him on par with the likes of Gareth Bale and CR7 with an eccentric release clause does raise a few questions.
It’s not the asking price as such but his release clause. It could be argued that Atletico will sell for less but given that this was only inserted last month, it seems unlikely that the Spaniards want anything significantly lower than £85 million. Rather astonishingly, that price sits just over £50 million higher than his official £34 million valuation laid out by ‘Transfermarkt’.
Carrasco has some experience of top level football and is currently part of an impressive Atletico contingent but is worth nowhere near what the Spaniards are demanding. It seems their valuation stems from the fact they don’t desperately need financial fuel and, if they did, it’d be to fund a deal for a Diego Costa return.
