7 Most Valuable 2022 World Cup Squads

[@johnadedoyin6866]

Wouldn't it be interesting to find out the value of these squads AFTER the WC? This would go some way in quantifying the true value of having a 'good' World Cup. Give it a go.

[@samhayden60]

Seconded, then do a comparison to see the values change and then look at players who might actually move in the January transfer window

[@KocoMandingo]

The education, entertainment, and sarcastic humor of your vids add immense flavor to the world cup experience

[@invader647]

I managed to catch this video a several minutes after upload so I'll leave a comment. I love the formatting of your videos, they are amazingly structured essays. Watching them has been one of my favourite past times as i take l o n g breaks from writing my bachelors' thesis. Without a doubt you as a content creator have helped me better myself in academia. Best and worst thing is the theme - its mainly Football and not so much International relations (fun to watch but cant help me "cheat" my way through higher education). Keep up the human rights journalism, perhaps i find extra inspiration, and hopefully all your viewers become more aware of important issues.

[@syn_tekken3055]

Food for thought: By virtue of being born in Leeds, Erling Haaland could have chosen to declare for England instead and lead the line alongside Harry Kane. A pipe dream of course, but that pairing would break the defence of any team.

[@Jakenh84]

If he ever wants to play in a World Cup, he’d be well off to do that 😂

[@sithvsjedi9696]

@@Jakenh84 Too late now 😃

[@ossiaigbedo7223]

Besides Bellingham England don’t have a central passer. You could argue Foden but Southgate doesn’t for some BIZZARE reason like playing him.

[@insane9473]

@@Jakenh84 Norway can probably make it to a world cup in the future, they have both Odegaard and Haaland.

[@chubskii]

@@ossiaigbedo7223 Phillips got a good pass on him, and I’d argue better than rice when he’s actually in a form

[@aryamanmani4025]

Messi still worth 50 Mil at the age of 35 is mental, surprising that Enzo Fernandez isn't much higher up that list. Portugal arguably have the best squad this WC, England are in their own golden era.

[@tyronelorenzovalentio3414]

France better

[@mashiah1]

Please do - "most underperformed golden generations" like current Belgium or Brazil of the 80s

[@SKa-tt9nm]

Brazil of the 80s is a very solid shout. People have forgotten how talented they were and just couldn’t put it together in both ‘82 and (especially) ‘86.

[@adamdickinson2894]

Is Belgium really the most underperformed?

[@callumhayes7502]

@@adamdickinson2894 yes.

[@1998Cebola]

@@callumhayes7502 yeah, how did they not win 3 world cups with a centerback pairing that peaked in Tottenham

[@bababababababa6124]

@@adamdickinson2894 is the sky blue?

[@hennimore1]

Alfie if you did a video on your 7 favourite types of hand drills we would all still faithfully watch it!

[@GeHeum]

One thing you forget about the transfermarkt valuations is that it is the valuation of a player given that a sale happens. The value of all players you mentions whose value seems to low seems much better when you look at it from the perspective of 'What will he be worth to his new club' instead of 'what is he worth to his old club.'

[@thegloriouspyrocheems2277]

Day 80 - The Fall and Rise of FK Velež Mostar From a Club that has beaten Borussia Dortmund, Twente, Derby County and many others to a club that was forced from their own stadium, reduced to nothing during the Bosnian War, becoming a mediocre top-level team in the 00s to nearly being forced into folding in 2016 to its amazing comeback to European competitions in 2021 seeing the early exit of Greek giants AEK Athens in a sensational win in Athens!

[@pompeyfitnessjames6298]

I like that you addressed the England haters in the room before giving a clear, unbiased explanation. Sometimes having English as the defacto world language is a drawback due to these things. Every time a british media outlet comes out and says oh England have a chance, they get heckled by foreign trolls (who for some reason prefer to watch our media rather than media in their own language) calling them biased, arrogant, cheaters etc. I'm frankly sick of the hate from the non-English trolls which is totally unprovoked and uncalled for.

[@kaimorris2970]

Rafael Le Joao , the most formidable portugal player

[@soundscape26]

Yes, he could better his pronunciation of Rafael Leão... it's not that hard with a bit of practice.

[@dinisfonseca6305]

@@soundscape26 damn right

[@callumhayes7502]

Nice touch to jean the machine 👏

[@JohnDoe-km9vx]

I still think that people underestimate england as historically they are valued quite a lot but where never a team, this time they have more of a team rather than just superstars. They are unfortunate to meet France so early on, as I think England could beat everyone else left in the cup now.

[@JoDyMa]

DAY 46: Hey Alfie, could you do a video on the life, career, controversies and tragedy of Justin Fashanu. It'd be your best video yet and it's a criminally underheard story. ❤️

[@bababababababa6124]

🇪🇨 - Valencia (£4 million) 🇧🇷 - Ennerdinho (£40 million) 🇫🇷- Henrique Valencie (£80 million) 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿- Harry Valencia (£140 million)

[@jhaych]

It's what happens when you play in the most valuable league in the world

[@bababababababa6124]

@@jhaych true

[@connordobson667]

Ha 😐 Npc

[@bababababababa6124]

@@connordobson667 gonna cry?

[@inhthinguyen6806]

Getting tired of these types of comments.

[@itdenelll]

Do a video on 7 best goalkeeping performances in a penalty shootout

[@soundscape26]

Solid request. 7 most heroic penalty shootout performances.

[@MihailBFC]

Helmut Dukadam

[@sithvsjedi9696]

Has to be the Dutch goalkeeper Krul who came on as a sub in the 2014 shootout against Costa Rica.

[@nickcarter6949]

English players will always have inflation on them because they’re homegrown players for the prem and that very valuable to English teams. Therefore they’re worth more.

[@headphones8362]

There’s English tax but it’s also because there are tons of good English players. For example Bellingham, who doesn’t play in England is second most expensive I think

[@rhystight9519]

Alfie you’re mixing up market value with the value a certain player has to their specific club

[@bababababababa6124]

Just remember that Morocco made it to the quarter finals while not being in the top 10

[@soundscape26]

Every World Cup has kind of a wonder team that no one saw coming. They have yet another mountain to climb with Portugal next.

[@bradleyjurd]

Harry Souttar’s value alone is more than all the other teams combined

[@K.Impact]

I definitely want to see the least valuable squads!

[@leemcdonald1342]

I do think how Alfie thinks of the Premier League walkouts from worst to best would be a good video idea.

[@chlcrk]

As in the music used? ... Yeah that could work

[@tomplatt5391]

Rafael Lijow must be the best pronunciation ever

[@soundscape26]

Blame the IPA

[@lioncactus1906]

I cant believe pepe had hair 4 yours ago

[@David-qq9bk]

he probably can still grow decent hair but prefers to go fully bald just to look more psycho and menacing for attackers lmao he's the kind of guy to do exactly that

[@dhanjustinereyes4305]

Hey HITC Sevens. Can you do an analysis about Belgium's floppy performance in the World Cup? I wanna know why, even with De Ketelaere, Belgium still sucked...badly. AND I MEAN BADLY. They weren't even in their 2018 form!!!

[@StrikingAlexa]

Although Erling Haaland could have chosen to play for England

[@JeremyAweda]

What does HITC mean?

[@soundscape26]

Here is the City

[@thegoldencamelfromegypt6865]

Love your videos, but you're channel could become much bigger if you used short clips in your videos instead of only pictures... I think people would prefer quality over quanity

[@whatsafirstname]

You should do a follow up to What has happen to Australian football. I sense a repeat of the mid 2010s will happen, when the game was growing in popularity, you think this would happen after the socceroos great performance at the world cup and then the media turned on the game and only covered negative stories to help destroy the game. Nearly worked as attendances dropped. Can also discuss that the federal government invests more money into hockey, sailing and cycling over football

[@DudleyBlue]

I’ve never understood why Football isn’t far more popular in Australia?? I find it strange how Cricket and Rugby were the Sports that the Aussies fell in love with when the British took it with them to Australia in our Colonial past…. Maybe it’s because those Sports were classed as upper class and Football is traditionally Working Class…. Therefore the only English Working class in Australia in those times were prisoners whereas the elites who ruled from Britain would have looked down their Noses at Football back then….

[@whatsafirstname]

@@DudleyBlue it is the middle of the A league season, yet the media spends more time talking about the afl and rugby preseaon. You will be lucky if they show football highlights and the media did not even build up the season before it started. Honestly, I believe the lack of coverage is due to the game being mostly played by ethnics, especially in tje 70s-90s and considered not masculine. Also Australia's previous football league, the nsl, tv rights were bought by a commercial station. Yet they played the games at 11 at night in order to help kill the league and it worked

[@DudleyBlue]

@@whatsafirstname Yeah I’ve heard that said before about Australia and the US that Football is classed as a immigrant Sport and certain ignorant fools will down at People who like Football as unpatriotic WTF?? The irony being those Fans who flew to Qatar to watch the US and Australia spending thousands of their hard earned Money have shown they Love their Country far more than the big Mouths who criticise them….

[@soundscape26]

Yes, the age factor plays a big role here, this is an evaluation ranking, not an overall squad strength ranking. Of course there's some correlation but that's only part of the story. Yeah, do the 7 least valuable World Cup squads.

[@davethebarbarian3119]

The correct pronunciation of Leão is Li-ah-um by the way, but I guess Le-ah-u is also acceptable.

[@RyuzakiTaiyou]

Best German players in the premier league of all time. (Day 423) I will not give up until the video is made or Alfie himself tells me to stop. Everyone else telling me that will be ignored. If you don't believe my number, just go back to the previous videos. I'm at the bottom most of the time, but I'm there.

[@smittenthekitteninmittens2679]

You do know football didn't start when the premier League did right??

[@RyuzakiTaiyou]

@@smittenthekitteninmittens2679 yes. I also know that Alfie did several videos limited to the premier league area. And of course I don't care if he talks about the premier league area or all of english football, as long as he talks about German players.

[@anfeariontach]

They were all underwhelming

[@LumberJacked89]

Kinda knew it would be england, lot of CL winners and Prem winners by the dozen in the squad.

[@ricaard6959]

Other than Bellingham and Foden, every English player is overrated... I highly doubt any of those players would get into that Brazil squad whereas I can name at least five Brazilian players who would get into the England squad... I have nothing against England, my hate was reserved for Uruguay(I'm African) but they're out so I'm not being biased here, England is not that good and I'll be proven right when they face a genuinely strong side like Brazil, Portugal or even France, who I think are there purely out of individual brilliance rather than as a team...

[@phightinphil25]

I disagree for me its Brazil, France, and then England in terms of favorites but that's a tight group all 3 have great depth and top upside starting talent and its hard to pick a true favorite.

[@ricaard6959]

@@phightinphil25 France has the best squad, not the best team... tactically they're not that good and when they do face a genuinely strong side like Brazil or Portugal who are good tactically plus the quality they will lose...

[@phightinphil25]

@@ricaard6959 It's the same team that won the world cup 4 years ago only with prime Mbappe and Umtiti has been swapped for uppemecano they will probably miss kante but pogba has been more than replaced by Tchuameni and Camavinga . I disagree with Portugal being better tactically or team wise albeit that might be changing after dropping Ronaldo. If France can lose to Portugal then by your argument they can lose to England as well. Either way we shall see.

[@archstanton6102]

England are ranked 5th in the world, so should get into the quarter finals. Which they have. So exactly where they should be.

[@phightinphil25]

@@archstanton6102 I think England is underrated a bit, they are deep, young, and extremally talented. The question is have they learned how to win after losing in the semis in 2018 and via penalties in the final of Euro 2020 I think football will "come home" soon I am not sure if its this tournament but soon. We will see on Saturday, they should be capable of giving France who I also rate, a test at least.

[@xolakepelele5654]

7 Least Valuable 2022 World Cup Squads

[@smalltalkgaming]

RIP Jeanne

[@EmmaUwU69]

Füllkrug isn’t 5 mill anymore after his performances for club and country this season

[@1998Cebola]

He's 30

[@NostalgiNorden]

It isn't 2006 anymore. Tournaments doesn't effect scouts anymore.

[@MastinoNapoletano420]

Most Valuable sqaud is Italy for not qualifying the 2nd time in row, stealing the Euro out from under England in their house, and not having to play in this carnival in the desert of a World cup...priceless 😂

[@egroegnumbersixthousand]

RIP JEANNE 💔

[@princetlhalefo2275]

Imagine thinking 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 is worthy of #1 spot for valuable team while it has cows like Kane what a shame

[@lovefan7694]

Alfie my love it's Rafael LEAO, not Legiao, he's not part of some sort of obscure legion avenging the spirit of Eusebio

[@yvltc]

That's what someone who is part of an obscure legion avenging the spirit of Eusébio would say... Though I agree his pronunciation of Leão was rather unusual, let's say

[@philthyw]

Spain and Germany are not in the World Cup anymore 😂

[@archstanton6102]

Think the Spain squad lost some of their value yesterday?

[@joel-wf4cy]

haaland couldve played for england but chose not too actually lol

[@bentn13]

Why call Leão Lejao? Going with the normal anglicization of Leao is fine, the ã is a nasal thing.

[@soundscape26]

I think he used the IPA for that one.

[@trevorjoneill707]

transfermarkt haven't a clue

[@FurioussBear]

Not sure who Rafael lejão is

[@Alfie_1]

Its just how leao pronounces it so its fair enough

[@David-qq9bk]

@@Alfie_1 no it absolutely isn't. leão doesn't pronounce the "j" in the middle of his name, obviously

[@Alfie_1]

@@David-qq9bk okay sorry, but if you do look at the international phonetic alphabet of his name, it says it has that sound in it, so you can see why he would think it is in there.

[@David-qq9bk]

@@Alfie_1 if that's the case then i can see why he said it that way, but as a portuguese i can say it's 100% wrong (and i don't know why it's like that on the IPA)

[@Alfie_1]

@@David-qq9bk Okay, sorry about the confusion, could it be a regional dialect or something? But yeah I can see why he said it like that even if incorrect.

[@michiadams]

ah the good old english tax

[@theawfulgambler]

Ok… so… top 7 most valuable players not at the WC?

[@soundscape26]

Hummm... Haaland, Salah, Oshimen, Diaz... and 3 more. 😄

[@MrSlinxy]

Kane is with 11p... the price that you get back for returning a milk bottle.... bloody bottler!!!

[@MihailBFC]

Mbappe will humble England

[@tednash5440]

do a video on why everyone has an unjustified hatred for anything english please

[@patrickmukuzho6423]

England 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 ??

[@theodoreneer4781]

i dont think youve seen ferran play since he got here lol, he's mid,

[@glennaldosf]

Hmm didn't you make a video just a couple of months ago saying that English tax doesn't really exist and that their players are not overvalued? And no I don't "hate England" or "think their players are worthless scum".. You have a great team and could win it this year, just think the English tax does exist to a certain extent as proved here....

[@rogink]

Let's get one thing clear - England have been good at scoring. Unless they don't score. Iran, Wales and Senegal obviously outweigh the draw with USA. But you watch large parts of England matches and there is no creativity, no skill. Maybe Grealish, but who else can run with the ball? The game Gareth is playing is - get the ball and take your chances. Is Transfermarkt right? Possibly, but that's because of the infamous PL 'tax'. The richest league can afford to pay for, and keep, the best players. Although we love our exotic foreign talent, if that's all it was there would be a backlash. So English players attract a premium. Watching the teams in the World Cup it's obvious that France, Brazil and Portugal are by far the best. The only hope for England is they sit back against the French and wait patiently for the counter. Regardless, the best outcome has to be Brazil v Portugal in the final. Yes, perhaps it will be more in hope than expectation, but we can always hope!

[@tdyerwestfield]

When Germany announced that Bella-Kotchap had made the squad for the World Cup, I'd literally never heard of him and had no idea who he played for. I had to search up who it was. To call him one of the best young centre backs in world football is a wild over-statement when no one knows who it is.

[@williamcross210]

Many people knew who he was and for several years. Just because you didn't know does mean everyone shared your ignorance

[@eyarebisong2152]

Yeah. I'd like to see the 7 least valued nations.

[@insertnamehere5809]

The least valuable would probably be Qatar & Australia

[@soundscape26]

Saudi Arabia behind Australia.

[@farhi411]

The least valuable squads are: 1. Qatar *€14.90m* 2. Costa Rica *€18.75m* 3. Saudi Arabia *€25.20m* 4. Australia *€37.30m* 5. Iran *€59.53m* 6. Tunisia *€62.40m* 7. Ecuador *€146.50m*

[@arzhi_azis]

Day 360: Indonesia XI If All Eligible Players Had Declared For Them.

[@1998Cebola]

No

[@aminredzuan2904]

Nope

[@bartusaron5909]

Give up

[@VictorMurp]

Keep going!

[@hi-rr2vm]

Keep dreaming bocah

[@DJKetel322]

Germany worth that amount an they couldn't even come out of there group

[@NostalgiNorden]

The UK tax is real.

[@jtmcgee]

England has the "most valuable" squad because English teams will over pay for English talent. Grealish costing almost as much as Haaland and Mbappe makes me giggle.

[@valterpenasribeiro5183]

Leão doesn't have a j ;)

[@Alfie_1]

That's how it is pronounced in standard portuguese

[@soundscape26]

@@Alfie_1 No J in Rafael Leão. Problem is often Alfie having to deal with the Portuguese and Brazil accents, which are fairly different, but I won't give him a hard time for that.

[@Alfie_1]

@@soundscape26 but as he is Portuguese shouldn’t it have the j sound when saying it allowed without having it in the spelling itself

[@Alfie_1]

@@soundscape26 the IPA for his name has a j sound in it sorry I’m not trying to be rude I just thought it was with the j sound for him

[@karlfroberg520]

Do the least valuable!!

[@adversity3600]

I told people from the beginning of WC that Portugal was one of the favorites as they have one the most gifted squads together with brazil france and England. People were telling me about Argentina 🤦🏾 . Open your eyes look at the squads . From defence to attack that squad is Stacked!!

[@xenofonkarykis8417]

English players are always hugely overvalued for the simple reason that premier league is the richest championship and at the same time the squads need to have about 1/3 of homegrown players. Which is also the reason why you don't see them playing in championships other than the English one. Team like Barcelona Real Bayern etc can afford them but they can get just as good or better foreign players at less than half the price from elsewhere and at the same time the English players themselves have no reason to move abroad for half the money they can get in what is something of an oligopoly for them in their own country. End of the day a player's worth what someone is willing to pay for them and not what their objective value is. Case in point Ronaldo whom no team in Europe wanted but nonetheless became the highest paid footballer in history at the age of 37 by moving to Saudi Arabia...

[@Eyeballpaul84]

England number 1 lol, good god are those English players over priced

[@matthewjennings5893]

Everyone at the tournement accepts England has the most depth. Expect the people so bigoted against England it's clouding their judgement. I'm not even english

[@williamlee7672]

England overestimating themselves again.

[@soundscape26]

It's by TransferMarkt so... Germans.

[@jevdiggle1058]

Iflated values almost as big as their egos.

[@LeBlavass]

This dude just said Rafael Lejao, I hate this channel

[@vaporterra]

Looking forward to the least value video

[@archstanton6102]

Qatar

[@EduardoGrassoTV]

Stop making up market value numbers for English players

[@archstanton6102]

Did you watch the video before commenting? He explains the figures at 12:55.

[@dinisfonseca6305]

Robert* not Robeh Half* not Holf Lionel* not Lionl María* not Maríer Inter* not Ento Alejandro* not Alihandrouw Gómez* not Góuwmez Franco* not Francouw Armani* not Ohrmonhrni Nicolás * not Neclas Giorgio* not Dgiödgiouw Argentina * not Ohrgentiner Data* not Dater Ansu* not Anzu Nico* not Nicouw Enrique* not Enriquei Jordi* not Djohri Busquets* not Băsquets Hansi* not Hanzi Musiala* not Musialer Joshua* not Jouwshua Sané* not Sohrnei Moukoko* not Makouwku Dortmund * not Dohrmund Bremen* not Breimen Félix* not Fílex Mendes* not Mendech Fernandes* not Fenandech Leão * not Ledjao Pepe* not Pepei Mbappé* not Mbappei Dembélé * not Dembeilei Samuel* not Sámyul Kanté* not Kantei Tchouaméni * not Tchouameini Fofana* not Fohrfohrner Aréola* not Ariouwler Jeanne* not Djinn Thiago* not Thiohrgouw Paquetá* not Paquetter Vinícius* not Venêcias Jesus* not Djeisus Kyle* not Carl 43 mistakes Alfie ffs

[@archstanton6102]

Only you care. Over 1000+ pointless comments.

[@pghewrexham2704]

L

[@vavericaplayz4441]

"Richer countries can't bully poorer ones" yes that's why countries like France and Germany are full of 100% French players

[@connordobson667]

France only have 3 players born outside France and one of them is Thuram who was born in Italy bc his dad was playing there at the time

[@vavericaplayz4441]

@MattyBRaps400 French national team is like 95% africans

[@vavericaplayz4441]

@MattyBRaps400 I'm just saying that France is still bullying poorer nations by stealing their players

[@vavericaplayz4441]

@@connordobson667 but they are all not french by origin

[@phightinphil25]

​@MattyBRaps400 If that argument is going to be used then England and Germany have the same problem. Children of immigrants are usually considered ether full citizens or at least eligible to represent their birth nation in sporting means. Apparently vaverica doesn't understand the difference between ethnicity, race, and origin on an individual level.

[@andyknowsball]

Get it right Alfeo, Ronaldo sacked United, not the other way round

[@soundscape26]

They rescinded by mutual agreement.

[@mostbased]

English players are always overrated. It's part of being an English player

[@miggygetright6344]

Lautaro being worth more than Messi is wild, 1 year of Messi > 3 of Lautaro 🫣

[@usernameisusername]

0:36 Boogeyman!!