UPDATED, Most Premier League Valuable First 11 in market value 2025/26 season
The Premier League season for the 2025/2026 campaign came to an end. While we were in the final stages of the campaign, we highlighted the valuable first eleven based on the Transfer value market.
The Premier League’s valuable First XI has a market value of €1.202 billion plus their respective add-ons. Yes, a significant amount of €1.202 billion was invested in 11 players.
This implies that every player in the Premier League Valuable First eleven for 2025/26 costs roughly an average of €109 million.
The full list of the Premier League valuable starting first eleven considers two main criteria; first is all about the player’s valuation in the transfer market.
This might be before his move to the current club, or recently, the player stepped up to become a world-class talent.
Second, it’s about players’ performance on the pitch compared to their competitors in the respective position.
However, we must be aware that performance makes a player valuable. So these two criteria are just one, but act as a coin with two parts.
- Goalkeeper – David Raya
The Spanish and Arsenal goalkeeper is the key player towards Arsenal’s milestones this season. His recent performance in the goal makes him an expensive player in his position.
Before the early stages of the season, Raya was second after Manchester City’s Donnarumma.
However, nowadays, this position is in Raya’s hands. Raya has the most clean sheets with outstanding world-class saves compared to anybody else in his position. This is well evidenced by data.
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Currently, Raya has a market value of €40m. No player in the league’s goalkeeping position exceeds that amount in the transfer market, based on the data from the Transfer Market.
- Right full-back – Jurrien Timber.
The Arsenal skipper played a significant role towards Arsenal’s good performance for the ongoing season. He has good performance in defending and attacking. In his best performance this season, Timber scores goals and provides an assist.
He has a passing accuracy of 85% with more tackles and interceptions to manifest his position. Currently, Timber has a market value of €80.
- Left full-back –Mark Cucurella
The Chelsea defender emerges as a standout left-back. He also provides outstanding goals and assists to his side. Unless his side is still struggling in the later stages of the season, Cucurella has established himself as the best in this position.
Manchester United’s Dorgu is upcoming and promising with his talent, and is good enough in the attacking position. However, the data still favours the side of the Spanish and Chelsea defender.
Cucurella has a market value of €50m in the transfer market.
- Central right back – William Saliba
Arsenal’s and France’s central defender William Saliba is frequently considered the best central right back in the Premier League. Based on available stats, Arsenal has an average of conceding 0.8 goals per game with a winning rate of 74 per cent when Saliba played for the Gunners.
Without Saliba, Arsenal concede 1.6 goals per game. Simultaneously, their win rate decreases to 45 per cent.
This reveals how the man was an important and valuable player. Recently, Saliba has had a market value of €90m.
- Central left back – Gabriel Dos Santos Magalhaes.
The Brazilian defender is good enough on air defensively as well as in attacking positions. He has been ranked at the 95th Percentile and above for his ground and aerial duels success rate and clean sheets.
He is also good enough in blocking shots, non-penalty expected goals and challenges lost.
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The Arsenal’s solid defence is incomplete without him. The Gunners’ win rate drops from 64.3 per cent to 40 per cent without Gabriel.
Furthermore, their average point per game drops to 1.5 compared to 2.1 with him in the first eleven squad. Arsenal defender, Gabriel Dos Santos Magalhaes, has a market value of €75m.
- Defensive Midfielder – Moses Caicedo.
The Chelsea midfielder, Moses Caicedo, has impressive stats in this position. He has 53.85 shooting accuracy and 92.2 pass accuracy.
Defensively, he has 55.3 tackles won and 34.29% of aerial duels won. Furthermore, he had 22 clearances and 52 interceptions.
He has more to offer in the valuable starting first eleven squad, which is why he has a higher value. His market value is estimated to be €110m.
- Right winger- Bukayo Saka.
The England international has had a good season at Arsenal. The club is resilient to him, which is why he is the 4th youngest player to start in 200 games in the Premier League. Based on Opta data, when Saka starts, Arsenal has 60% of winning a football match.
Saka is well-renowned for his dribbling, playmaking and scoring ability. Arsenal’s Bukayo Saka has a market value of €140m.
- Defensive Midfielder- Declan Rice.
Of course, Caicedo will pair Declan Rice in defensive roles. This aimed to create team balance and stability.
The Englishman has double digits of goals and assists for Arsenal in this Premier League season. He also still shows some of the defensive qualities and is a key player in the Arsenal squad this season.
Rice is also in contention to win the PFA prize due to his outstanding performance this season.
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Currently, Declan Rice has a market value of €120m.
- Striker – Erling Haaland.
No doubt, Manchester City forward, Erling Haaland will lead the front line of the English Premier League’s valuable squad for the 2025/26 season. He is the top scorer of the campaign.
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Haaland is also most valuable in the English top club division with a market value of €180m. And it is second to Lamine Yamal in the world.
- Attacking Midfielder – Cole Palmer.
Palmer is a good player with creativity and composure, and has prolific goal contributions for Chelsea.
However, his creativity and attacking quality make him more suitable for goal scoring and chance creation. The English midfielder, Cole Palmer, has a market value of €120m.
- Left winger- Jeremy Doku.
He is an explosive and higher-impact winger in the Premier League. He is renowned as the best winger in dribbling, pacing and higher ability to expose defensive weaknesses of the opponent team.
He is also good enough at scoring and providing assists for his side.
The Manchester City winger has an overall completion pass rate of 84 per cent. The Belgian international has a market value of €65m.
The manager of this squad could be Pep Guardiola. This is because he is the best coach in the league as well as the highest-paid manager in the English Premier League, earning €25m per year.
