The only U20 field player in Superliga in the top 100 Mondial »received an assessment of 5.7 million euros!
Article by Daniel Scorpie – published Wednesday, April 30, 2025, 15:54 / Updated Wednesday, April 30, 2025 15:57
Andrei BorzaRapid's left defender, he is the only Romanian and the representative of the Superligion in the latest performance study for young people under 20, conducted by Swiss statisticians from Cies Football Observatory.
The specialists in Neuchatel, who announced the new parterner with a German company to monitor the evolutions of the footballers, placed the 19-year-old defender prepared by Marius Șumudică. In the last position in the hierarchy of those having the most important impact on both the goals scored and in avoiding the goals received by his team.
Cies has chosen 100 field players who have not turned 20 out of 45 championships outside the top 5 world with the best values in terms of “Impets Pxt (Packing Expected Threat Model), weighted according to the sports level of the matches played according to this method. PXT measures the value of players' shares in terms of increasing or decreasing the probability of scoring or receiving a goal ”.
Andrei Borza has a major impact in both phases of the game
Andrei Borza has the lowest Pxt coefficient, of 0.783, immediately below those granted for four other Under 20 young people: the INTI Lopez (River Pate, 19.7 years), quoted at 500,000 euros, the central defender Julian Pauli (FC Koln, 19.8 years), evaluated at 3.1 million Podbrezova, 19.1 years), listed at 2.3 million, and Ante Kavelj (HNK Sibenik, 19.7 years), valued at 800,000 euros.
Andrei Borza Photo: Ionuț Iordache (GSP)
In the CIES Football Obervatory standings, there are only seven U20 field players who have a superunitarian Pxt. The leader is the offensive midfielder of FC Porto, Rodrigo Mora (18 years), with 1.195 and a market share of 30.2 million euros.
It is followed by one of the objectives taken in the viewfinder of Real Madrid for the Summer Mercato: the 17.7 years old by River Plate, Franco Mastantuono, evaluated by the Swiss statisticians in collaboration with the company Impets to 27.5 Miloons. The third is also a young footballer from FC Porto, the Multipurpose defender Martim Fernandes (19.3 years), quoted at 19.3 million euros.
The analysis also presents the estimated transfer values of the Top 100 players, with a maximum of 52.7 million euros for Jorrel Hato (AJAX). Only the footballers who played at least 450 minutes and 25% of the play time in the current season were considered.
