New report ranks young Newcastle United stars amongst world’s most valuable under 21 year olds


 
 
 
 
 
 

An interesting new report has named two young Newcastle United stars amongst the 1oo most valuable under 21s in world football.

The CIES Football Observatory reporting:

‘The 100 players in the world who have not yet celebrated their 21st birthday with the highest transfer value according to the CIES Football Observatory statistical model.

The Spanish prodigy Lamine Yamal (Barcelona, €180.9m*) outranks Alejandro Garnacho (Manchester United, €114.8m) and Warren Zaïre-Emery (Paris St-Germain, €109.0m). A fourth youngster is valued at over €100 million: Sávio Moreira (Manchester City, €101.0m).’

Obviously, any formula used to value players, especially younger ones, has only got so much evidence to go on, so very much based on loose estimates.

This is how the top end of the report’s top 100 looks, places 1-20:

Going a bit further down, you find two young Newcastle United stars ranked in places 31 and 44 in this most valuable under 21s report:

So they have Lewis Hall ranked 31st with a value of €39.0m (approx £32.5m).

Then Lewis Miley ranked 44th with a value of €33.6m (approx £28.0m).

With 18 year old Lewis Miley, it is even more difficult to value such a young player.

However, fair to say that with Newcastle United having committed to spending £28m on Lewis Hall when he was just 18 years old and had started only eight Premier League matches in his entire career, that he is now already worth a lot lot more than that £32.5m valuation in the report.

Eddie Howe has helped him massively progress and with Lewis Hall now a Premier League regular and widely expected to be named in Thursday’s England squad, in today’s transfer market I think you are already looking at Hall having doubled in value, if for whatever mad reason NUFC were prepared to sell him.