No offense, but how do you upgrade a soon-to-be 31-year-old Ricardo Gomes to 5 million? 3.5 years ago he switched for 3M (because it hit the MW very well), since then he has been sorted out in Turkey and the UAE. So it can’t currently be worth 60% more than it was 3 years ago.
I agree. I have great respect for the sporting achievements of Red Star and Partizan, but I have the impression that in Serbia many market values are not assigned “in line with market value” in the narrower sense, but a more performance-oriented analysis is carried out that the status of “older” players very much appreciates. The record transfers of the Serbian league (as in almost all leagues) are young players between 19 and 23 years, while players over 26 years of age have very rarely been paid higher transfer fees.
In addition to Ricardo Gomes, I just noticed a few other players, all of whom only very late in their careers (after the age of 26) made drastic increases in market value in the Serbian league, while earlier in their careers they played for rather inconspicuous clubs and also changed for much smaller sums.
Here is an example of the development of the market values of these players at two points in time, with strong revaluations, all after the age of 26:
Red Star
Ivanic = At 26 years/MW: 1.5 million ➢ Today: 29 years/MW: 8 million
Katai = At the age of 29/ MW: 1.6 million ➢ Today: 31 years/ MW: 5 million
partisan
Vujačić = At the age of 26/mean: 0.7 million ➢ Today: 28 years/mean: 4 million
Urosevic= At the age of 27/ MV: 1 million ➢ Today: 28 years/ MV: 3.2 million
Ricardo Gomes = At 29 years/MW: 1.6 million ➢ Today: 30 years/MW: 5 million
Doesn’t want to deny the players their individual quality, because many players reach their sporting peak in their late 20s, that’s clear. But the TM market value is not a pure performance analysis and is usually strongly linked to the age of the player. I hope you don’t blame me for the criticism, I know from my own experience how difficult it is to determine market values.