For those who don't know it, Transfermakt is a website where fans of match statistics, clubs, players, agents, referees... can go to find reliable and truthful information. A website where transfer markets are in full swing, either to find out the rumours or to estimate the market value of a certain player.
However, looking at the top 100 most valuable players, surprisingly, Atlético players are lower than expected, according to the website. Although it is true that rarely has an Atlético de Madrid player been valued as much as others from other clubs. An example of this is FC25 (previously called FIFA) where players are usually worse than they actually are.
Julian Alvarez: number 21
To find the first Atlético de Madrid player, you have to go to the position that appears in the header of this text. Ahead of him, there are some logical players such as Erling Haaland, Jude Bellingham, Rodri or Kylian Mbappé and others who are not so logical. Florian Wirtz, Bukayo Saka, Lautaro Martínez, Aurelien Tchouaméni or Victor Osimhen are some of the examples that may be worth less than the Argentine centre forward.
Not to mention Gavi, who is just one position above Julián Álvarez. No one denies that the Spanish midfielder has a beastly quality and potential, but after almost a year seriously injured I don't think many clubs would pay 90 million for his signing.
Conor Gallagher almost closes the top 100
To find the next Atlético player in this list, you have to go to position 99 , where the English midfielder Conor Gallagher appears. Perhaps they should explain to us what these player ratings are based on, because I don't quite understand it. It seems that there are many names that if they played for another team or if they were Luis instead of Luiz, they wouldn't even make it into the top 1000.
Meanwhile, an endless list of names are above Antoine Griezmann, Robin Le Normand or Jan Oblak. Players who, on their own merits, continue to demonstrate that they are among the best in their positions, although for some reason that we cannot understand, they are not valued on an individual level.
Fortunately, football is a team sport and the only objective and deserved titles are the collective ones. Individual titles are, nowadays, victims of uncontrolled marketing and fandom. Fortunately, these footballers know this and put the group before the individual to make the clubs where they play a little bit bigger.