It is difficult to determine If this is the best Albanian national football team of all the times. Something very subjective, although the achieving qualification in the European Championship in 2016 makes these players to be called part of a golden generation. But if this is the dilemma, there is something that is certain: This is the most expensive nation in its history.
Christian Panucci has the fate, but also the responsibility to lead a group of players, worth over 100m euros. This is for the sole reason that players like Hysaj, Strakosha and Berisha are making a dignified appearance at one of the biggest European championships - Seria A. For some of the Albanian romantic fans the former players were stronger and had more quality, but the facts show that these guys like Hysaj, Strakosha, Berisha, Xhaka or others play for serious goals like the titles in the respective championships, qualifications in Europe and the Cup.
Never before the figures has been so hight, not even when De Biazi qualified Albania in the European. The increase of cardboard value of some of the main players has also increased significantly the value of the Albanian national team. Even in the "transfermarkt" there is something like this, where Albania now costs 63.65 million of euros.
But, in fact, this is not a real value as Hysaj and Strakosha here are not as valued as the European Institute of Statistics estimates, which analyzes performance, age and everything else. According to this institute, Elseid Hysaj is worth of 46 million euros and Strakosha 19 million, which means more than half of all the national team.
In total, the figure exceeds 100 million euros, including players who are part of the team, but were not gathered for the last match with Turkey. After Hysaj and Strakosha, the third most expensive player of the National is Etrit Berisha, whose value has gone up to 7 million of euros.