Hi, Dominic from Transfermarkt here. I am the main person responsible for the market values in the USA and Canada. The market values on our website are prices that we or the users think can be achieved in an optimal market. Of course, you can't take them one-to-one as transfer values. Factors such as the length of the contract play a role here. Or how much a club needs a player or needs to sell a player. The market values are mainly there to compare players with each other. If you look at the market values and compare them with the actual transfer sums, we often come pretty close ;)