Most valuable U21 players from England

The most valuable U21 players from England, ranked on Field Insider.

At a glance

N. O'Reilly of Manchester City is the standout for raw talent across U21 players from England, with a Field Insider Rating of 96.7, and D. Ballard leads the scoring with 23 goals.

The numbers a scout watches are the year-on-year jumps: D. Ballard has improved his Season rating most, up +46.2 on last season, while S. Fusire's scouting Rating has risen fastest, +34.1 over the same span. Those are the players whose trajectory is bending upward fastest.

By our market-value index, N. O'Reilly of Manchester City is the most valuable name in this group at 174.1.

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#	Player	Team	Age	val	Season	Rating
1	N. O'Reilly Full-back	Manchester City	21	174.1	56432.1%	9717.9%
2	J. Hinshelwood Attacking midfielder	Brighton	21	169	329.3%	944.7%
3	K. Mainoo Defensive midfielder	Manchester United	21	160.7	2959.1%	899.7%
4	L. Hall Full-back	Newcastle	21	156.1	3320.2%	877.6%
5	L. Miley Full-back	Newcastle	20	149.3	21172.4%	889.2%
6	R. Lewis Full-back	Manchester City	21	146.5	967.3%	818.5%
7	L. Routh Centre-back	Aston Villa U21	18	145.1	10	97
8	A. Gray Central midfielder	Tottenham	20	144.8	2471.8%	855.3%
9	T. Carroll Centre-back	Aston Villa U21	19	140.6	22	88
10	J. Bynoe-Gittens Attacking midfielder	Chelsea	21	140	975.8%	7810.3%
11	C. Rigg Attacking midfielder	Sunderland	19	134.4	874.5%	848.8%
12	Joshua Kofi Acheampong Full-back	Chelsea	20	134	9141%	792.3%
13	Joshua King Central midfielder	Fulham	19	133.6	20915%	8415.8%
14	Max Alleyne Centre-back	Manchester City	20	131.6	9	77
15	A. Heaven Centre-back	Manchester United	19	130.7	11	8215.7%
16	M. Lewis-Skelly Defensive midfielder	Arsenal	19	129.9	575.4%	815.9%
17	T. Fredricson Centre-back	Manchester United	21	129.8	0100%	723.1%
18	Ben Winterburn Central midfielder	Bournemouth	21	127.8	0100%	71±0%
19	Tyrique George Winger	Everton	20	126.3	0100%	7412.2%
20	L. Williams-Barnett Centre-forward	England U17	18	125.7	20	84
21	J. Wright Goalkeeper	Aston Villa	21	124.7	0	69
22	Harrison Jones Central midfielder	Sunderland U21	21	124.4	0	69
23	O. Scarles Full-back	West Ham	20	124.1	1458%	732.9%
24	M. Mane Attacking midfielder	Wolves	18	123.8	18	8319.4%
25	T. Dibling Defensive midfielder	Everton	20	123.4	483.7%	739%
26	Keon Lewis-Burgess Centre-back	Milton Keynes Dons	19	121.3	5	76
27	K. Rodney Central midfielder	Crystal Palace	21	121.3	0	67
28	T. Watson Winger	Brighton	20	121.2	0100%	716.9%
29	Triston Rowe Centre-back	England U19	20	121.2	0	71
30	Joe Knight Central midfielder	Brighton	20	120.4	0	71
31	Sam Straughan Brown Central midfielder	Doncaster	19	119.7	2	75
32	Charlie Gray Central midfielder	Manchester City	20	119.7	1	70
33	O. Taylor Central midfielder	Mansfield Town	19	119.4	4	75
34	George Earthy Central midfielder	West Ham	21	119.3	0100%	663.1%
35	R. Ngumoha Attacking midfielder	Liverpool	17	119	10	85
36	H. Armstrong Central midfielder	Everton	19	118.7	559.5%	7421%
37	Jenson Jones Centre-back	Sunderland U21	20	118.7	0	70
38	J. Fletcher Defensive midfielder	Manchester United	19	118.7	2	74
39	Reigan Heskey Centre-forward	England U17	18	118.5	0	79
40	R. McAidoo Centre-forward	England U17	18	118.4	0	79
41	R. Patterson-Powell Central midfielder	Middlesbrough U21	20	118.3	0	70
42	C. McFarlane Centre-back	Manchester City U21	19	117.9	0	74
43	Rio Cardines Defensive midfielder	Crystal Palace	20	117.3	1	69
44	George Hemmings Central midfielder	Aston Villa	19	117.3	0	73
45	Z. Abbott Full-back	Nottingham Forest	20	117	1	69
46	T. Nyoni Central midfielder	Liverpool	19	116.8	0	73
47	J. Bellingham Defensive midfielder	Borussia Dortmund	20	115.6	3032.2%	826.2%
48	Jaden Dixon Centre-back	Arsenal	19	114.7	2	72
49	S. Proctor Goalkeeper	Aston Villa U21	19	114.6	0	72
50	James Rowswell Centre-back	Tottenham	20	114.4	0	67