Recently, the German football transfer market website updated the player's value. The Three Lions England became the world's most expensive national team for €1.293 billion. Among them, Phil Foden, a 22-year-old who plays for Manchester City, is worth 90 million euros, leading the England players' value list alongside the British star Harry Kane. In the Premier League player value list, Foden is also tied for Second place with Kane and Salah, behind the new team-mate Haaland, who has just joined, who is worth 150 million pounds.
Last season, Foden played 45 games for Manchester City, scoring a double-double of 14 goals and 11 assists, which is also his two-double-double for goals and assists for the second consecutive season. In Guardiola's no-front tactics, Foden has served as a center, winger, full-back, and once carried the banner of midfield organization in the absence of De Bruyne, which can be described as a golden oil player in the midfield. The delicate foot technique, the broad vision, and the good big picture are all impressive. What is even more commendable is Foden's dedication and dedication to football, from the moment he stepped on the field, he kept running, fighting, and attacking the opponent's defense. With his strength and diligence, it's no wonder Guardiola favors him. There is a saying that Fuden has today's performance, and it is really directly related to the painstaking cultivation of Gua Shuai.
Foden, who has been a Manchester City fan since childhood, has shown outstanding football talent early on, and in the Manchester City echelon, he has become the three masters of Manchester City's youth academy with Sancho and Brahin Díaz. However, sancho and Díaz are long gone, and only Foden remains at Manchester City. Manager Pep Guardiola is particularly fond of the original Young Manchester City academy, who has repeatedly praised Foden in public as the most talented player he has ever seen, and such an evaluation is very rare for Guardi, who has coached Messi. At the same time, Guardiola also refused the request of several clubs to loan or buy Foden, insisting on keeping him by his side. Because in his opinion, even if Foden only trains with Manchester City's first-team players, he helps and improves better than other players in the lower leagues.
Of course, more importantly, Foden is different from Sancho and Brahin-Díaz, he is a midfielder, this position is not as easy to play as a winger, but needs to watch the six ears and listen to the all-round tempering of the eight sides. It can also be seen from here that Guardiola's cultivation of Foden is a gradual process, giving more patience and time, and in the era of football becoming more and more eager to achieve success, Guardiola's approach is still very rare.
Of course, Foden did not live up to the expectations of his mentor, starting from the bench and the bench. Silently completed the accumulation, and eventually accumulated thick and thin. When his partner Sancho played in Dortmund in the sky of european football, Foden was still only a fringe player in Manchester City's first team, and in the 2018/19 season, Sancho played for Dortmund in 43 games in all competitions to cut 13 goals and 16 assists of the double-double data, emerging. Also that season, Foden had only 7 goals and 2 assists in 26 games.
However, last season, Sancho, who joined Manchester United for 85 million euros, only had a dismal statistic of 3 goals and 3 assists in 29 games, and was only a marginal player in the England national team, and his value fell to 75 million euros. And his little partner Foden not only made more appearances, but also cut the big double-double of goals and assists, both personal data and value have completed the overall surpass.
Not long ago, Manchester City successfully signed Norwegian talented centre-forward Haaland, the previously introduced Argentine rising star Alvarez will also play for Manchester City next season, plus Foden, who has already proved himself in the squad, 3 post-00s talented players have become the new Manchester City three after Sane, Sterling and Jesus, which is a combination that can protect Manchester City's forward line for the next decade, and their limit can only be the sky.