{"id":33472,"date":"2025-07-24T10:15:10","date_gmt":"2025-07-24T10:15:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/33472\/"},"modified":"2025-07-24T10:15:10","modified_gmt":"2025-07-24T10:15:10","slug":"gabriel-agbonlahor-thinks-former-chelsea-star-would-actually-be-worth-way-more-than-florian-wirtz-in-todays-market","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/33472\/","title":{"rendered":"Gabriel Agbonlahor thinks former Chelsea star would actually be worth way more than Florian Wirtz in today&#8217;s market"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Ex-Aston Villa striker Gabriel Agbonlahor has made a big claim that a lot of Chelsea supporters will agree with.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thechelseachronicle.com\/club\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Chelsea<\/a> have made some expensive signings during this transfer window but so have their <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thechelseachronicle.com\/tag\/premier-league\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Premier League<\/a> rivals Liverpool.<\/p>\n<p>The Reds actually broke the British transfer record by spending \u00a3116m on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thechelseachronicle.com\/tag\/florian-wirtz\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Florian Wirtz<\/a>. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thechelseachronicle.com\/columnist\/how-chelsea-profited-from-man-city-pulling-out-of-62m-deal-as-rivals-do-the-same-again-with-florian-wirtz\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Manchester City were also interested in Wirtz<\/a>, but the Citizens eventually cooled their interest in the German.<\/p>\n<p>If one former Chelsea star was still playing today, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thechelseachronicle.com\/tag\/gabby-agbonlahor\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Agbonlahor<\/a> thinks he would go for an even bigger fee.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"691\" loading=\"lazy\"  src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/GettyImages-2108324938-1024x691.jpg\" alt=\"Florian Wirtz of Germany runs with the ball during the international friendly match between France and Germany\" class=\"wp-image-197948\" \/>Photo by Boris Streubel\/Getty ImagesGabriel Agbonlahor claims former Chelsea star would be worth \u00a3160m in today\u2019s market<\/p>\n<p>Chelsea only had to pay \u00a332m when they signed <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thechelseachronicle.com\/tag\/eden-hazard\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Eden Hazard<\/a> from Lille back in 2012.<\/p>\n<p>However, in the current market, Agbonlahor believes the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thechelseachronicle.com\/club\/manager\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Chelsea legend<\/a> would be worth \u00a3160m or possibly even more.<\/p>\n<p>When asked on talkSPORT how much a 25-year-old Hazard would cost today, the retired England international said: \u201c25 years of age, I\u2019m talking\u2026 it\u2019s got to be 150 [million] minimum. Or maybe you\u2019re talking 175, 180, especially when Neymar went to PSG for what, 190, was it? I\u2019m going to say 160.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Wirtz is not the only \u00a3100m player in the Premier League. Chelsea spent roughly that on both Moises Caicedo and Enzo Fernandez, while Arsenal did the same to land Declan Rice in 2023.<\/p>\n<p>Caicedo and Fernandez were two of Chelsea\u2019s best players last season, so the club will feel that it was money well spent.<\/p>\n<p>Former Hoffenheim and Stuttgart manager <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thechelseachronicle.com\/news\/chelsea-told-theyve-got-a-player-who-will-one-day-be-the-best-in-the-world-in-his-position-this-guy-is-amazing\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Pellegrino Matarazzo has tipped Caicedo to become the best No.6<\/a> in the world one day after watching him at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thechelseachronicle.com\/tag\/club-world-cup\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Club World Cup<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" loading=\"lazy\"  src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/GettyImages-960198184-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"Chelsea's Eden Hazard in action during the Emirates FA Cup Final match between Chelsea and Manchester United\" class=\"wp-image-288642\" \/>Photo by Craig Mercer \u2013 CameraSport via Getty ImagesMoises Caicedo and Enzo Fernandez prove Eden Hazard would be a \u00a3160m player today<\/p>\n<p>For as good as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thechelseachronicle.com\/tag\/moises-caicedo\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Caicedo<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thechelseachronicle.com\/tag\/enzo-fernandez\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Fernandez<\/a> have been for Chelsea, they are still just midfielders.<\/p>\n<p>Hazard was an attacker who was capable of winning games for the Blues on his own. If Caicedo and Fernandez cost more than \u00a3100m each, there is no doubt that Hazard in his prime would go for more, perhaps in the region of \u00a3160m. <\/p>\n<p>With Wirtz the latest \u00a3100m signing in England, spending that figure on the very best talent is going to become the norm. It will now be interesting to see who is next.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ex-Aston Villa striker Gabriel Agbonlahor has made a big claim that a lot of Chelsea supporters will agree&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":33473,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[21339,17224,27879,403,99],"class_list":{"0":"post-33472","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-soccer","8":"tag-eden-hazard","9":"tag-florian-wirtz","10":"tag-gabriel-agbonlahor","11":"tag-soccer","12":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33472","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33472"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33472\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33472"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33472"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33472"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}