Ryan Reynolds and Rob Mac have backed Wrexham heavily in the transfer market this summer.
After winning promotion, the Red Dragons have been attempting to build a squad capable of competing in the Championship.
Nine new signings have been made by Wrexham, with their transfer record once again broken last week.
Nathan Broadhead joined in a club-record transfer, thought to be worth up to £10m.
Broadhead, though, is not named as the Welsh outfit’s most valuable player despite being their most expensive signing ever.
Wrexham’s most valuable player named
Instead, it is another summer transfer who one set of data experts now list as Wrexham’s best asset.
‘CIES Football Observatory has developed a statistical model to assess the transfer value of professional football players on a scientific basis’, naming the most valuable player at each club in around 65 leagues across the world.
Wrexham are available in the tool, and their top player when it comes to transfer value is not Broadhead, but instead Liberato Cacace.
After signing from Italy, it was reported that the Red Dragons could pay up to £4m for Cacace with add-ons, though the initial fee is thought to be around £2.2m.
However, CIES say that the left-back has a ‘fair price’ transfer value of between €4.8m-€5.5m.
So, even if he were to be sold for the lowest value, which is around £4.14m, Wrexham would already be able to make a profit on the player. That profit would be even greater if sold before add-ons are triggered.
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Have Wrexham overpaid for Nathan Broadhead
While Cacace already being worth more than Wrexham paid is positive, it does leave question marks regarding their new record signing.
Broadhead’s fee was questioned by fans when it was revealed that a deal with the Dragons was close.
And even if he didn’t have the exact value Wrexham just paid for him, the fact that he has a lower reported value than Cacace, who cost, including both players’ add-ons, less than half the price, is somewhat worrying.
Broadhead made his debut vs West Brom on Saturday but had little impact on the fixture.