Arsenal: Assessing Calum Chambers’ value after Tyrone Mings madness

Arsenal should not be trying too hard to sell Calum Chamber, but his value has to have take a significant boost after the Tyrone Ming madness.

There was a time, not that long ago, when Arsenal were linked to Tyrone Mings. He was, at the time, a young, talented English defender who would have made a lot of sense to acquire. But since then, he has only gotten older (surprisingly) and has had trouble racking up minutes on the pitch.

Since leaving Ipswich in 2015, a season where he amassed 3600 minutes of playing time, he has accumulated just about 2300 minutes of playing time in four seasons. That’s less than 600 minutes a season. He’s 26 now, and according to rumors, he’s been sold by Bournemouth to Aston Villa.

For £26.5m.

That’s right, a player who is averaging less than 600 Premier League minutes a season over a four year span just sold for more than we are apparently hocking Calum Chambers for.

Granted, I do not think the Gunners should sell Calum Chambers. Not with how much untapped potential he has to be a real solution on this club. But if Mings can go for that much, it makes me wonder just how much Chambers can go for.

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For starters, Chambers is only 24. That already boosts his value. So let’s say that it puts him at £30m. There’s also the versatility aspect, of being able to play centerback, midfield, or potentially rightback as well, though I’ll be conservative and not alter Chambers’ value from that.

Next we have to look at how much he is playing and the impact he’s been making.

Since coming to Arsenal one year before Mings went to Bournemouth, Chambers has played in around 7200 Premier League minutes across three clubs. That’s twice as much time spent on the pitch as Mings, and Chambers hasn’t even had the chance to be a regular at the Emirates for a full season.

In that time, he helped anchor a surprisingly stoic Boro defense, he brought life to a dead Arsenal defense the following year, and he took home player of the year honors at Fulham just last season.

And he’s 24 years old.

Meanwhile, Mings has missed out on 608 days, nearly two years, due to injury. His market valuation on transfermarkt has him at less than £4.5m, yet he went for £26.5m. Chambers’ valuation is £12.5m. If we apply the same inflation to Chambers, that means that we should sell him for £73m.

That might be enough to convince me to sell him.

Now obviously that isn’t going to happen, but any talk of Chambers going for anything less than £30m has to be scrapped. At a bare minimum, if we are going to sell Calum Chambers, it has to be around the £35m mark. It’s past time that we start making actual good sales.