Post-World Cup: German players' prices increase

The 2014 World Cup championship is a guarantee, helping German players get special attention and become more valuable. But besides the German players, the talents from their youth training center also get... benefits.

Thanks to the World Cup championship, the transfer value of Hummels and his teammates increased rapidly.

THU DUC TEAM IS WANTED FOR

Right after the 2014 World Cup ended, Toni Kroos confirmed that he would leave Bayern for Real. Kroos can be considered the first shot for a wave of German players looking for a new destination. In addition to Kroos, who is being specially recruited by Real, Sami Khedira, Benedikt Hoewedes, Christoph Kramer or Mats Hummels... are also being lured by big European teams.

Khedira suffered a serious injury in early 2014 that seemed to be a career-ending one. But the Tunisian-born player recovered quickly to make his mark with Germany at the 2014 World Cup. Arsenal and Chelsea are currently competing for the Real Madrid midfielder. Another English club, Manchester City, are also keen on Hoewedes. Schalke's versatile defender, who can play at centre-back, left-back and right-back, is a player that manager Pellegrini is keen on.

Another name that has become expensive is center-back Mats Hummels. With 2 goals for Germany and impressive performances in Brazil, Hummels has proven to the world that he is one of the best center-backs in world football. Hummels' transfer fee has therefore quickly increased from 30 to 40 million euros, but both Man United and Barcelona are ready to pile up money to convince Dortmund to sell this star.

Sami Khedira is the target of a dispute between Chelsea and Arsenal

NATURAL FRAGRANCE

It is understandable that German players increased in value and were sought after after winning the 2014 World Cup. But even other German players “suddenly increased in value” thanks to Germany winning the title.

Indeed, Germany's World Cup 2014 victory can be seen as an affirmation of the quality of youth training of Bundesliga teams. For example, in the past, English teams rarely used German players. But now, not only Arsenal (Mertesacker, Podolski, Oezil and possibly Khedira), but also Man United, Chelsea and Liverpool have paid more attention to German football talents.

Yesterday, the British press reported that Liverpool was ready for a blockbuster deal. Specifically, they were willing to spend up to 50 million euros to convince Dortmund to transfer star Marco Reus, who missed the 2014 World Cup due to injury. That could be considered an attractive offer from Liverpool that Dortmund would find difficult to refuse. If successful in bringing Reus to play in England, he would be the second player from the German academy to join Liverpool this summer, after Emre Can from Leverkusen with a transfer fee of 12 million euros.

In addition, other young stars of German football such as Julian Draxler, Max Meyer (of Schalke), Bernd Leno (Leverkusen), Kevin Volland (Hoffenheim), Maximilian Arnold (Wolfsburg)... also received attention from mid-level European teams such as Tottenham, Napoli, Valencia... With what is happening, it can be seen that Germany is on the way to becoming a leading player exporting country in the world.

"The Bundesliga has many good goalkeepers. In addition, if you are looking for young and potential attacking players, Germany's number 1 league is also a reasonable shopping destination" - Youth football expert Frank Arnesen

Source: FOOTBALL +