Antony, Fofana, Casemiro: The most overpriced XI of the summer transfer window

The 2022 summer transfer window has officially slammed shut.

It’s been a head-spinning few months which has seen Premier League clubs spend well over £1 billion on the likes of Casemiro, Erling Haaland, Gabriel Jesus, Christian Eriksen and countless others.

And one of the biggest themes that has pervaded these cash-rich weeks has been the fact that more than a few English clubs have paid over the odds to get the player they wanted.

You know what we mean, right? We’ve all seen a couple of purchases this summer that have made us go: ‘now, that’s a really, really good signing, but for how much?!’

To an extent, it’s the way of the world and you only have to look at instances such as Virgil van Dijk to Liverpool and Kevin De Bruyne to Manchester City to see that paying more than the player’s market value can be worth every penny in the long run.

And that’s what we’re assessing here at GIVEMESPORT because now that Deadline Day has been neatly wrapped up in a bow, we wanted to take a look at which summer moves were the most overpriced.

To do so, we’ve called upon the data gurus over at Transfermarkt who work out how overpriced or not a transfer might be by comparing the fee they moved for with their calculated market value at the time.

In other words, if Lionel Messi was to move to Barnsley tomorrow for £80 million, but his transfer market value was only £30 million, then he’d have been £50 million overpriced.

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Got it? Right then, from there, we’ve made sure that every position has been represented by building the most overpriced XI in a 4-3-3 formation.

The choices are completely informed by the statistics, so don’t look at us, look