The Gab & Juls Draft: Choosing the Best Players Born in 2004

It's time for the Gab & Juls draft. We pick the best players by birth year. This year, we're looking at players born in 2004.

We made some bad picks in the past, but we're looking at the future. We use Transfermarkt valuations to see how our picks are doing. Juls is doing well, up 15.39%, while I'm almost flat, down 0.01%.

Here's our draft of players born in 2004. The top three are very good, and the top eight are all midfielders.

Juls picked João Neves, a midfielder from Paris Saint-Germain, as his first choice. He says Neves has a high football IQ.

I picked Nico Paz, a midfielder from Como, as my second choice. Paz is a good player who can score and create chances.

I picked Gavi, a midfielder from Barcelona, as my third choice. Gavi was one of the best young players in Europe before he got hurt.

Juls picked Aleksandar Pavlovic, a midfielder from Bayern Munich, as his fourth choice. Pavlovic is strong and good on the ball.

Juls picked Adam Wharton, a midfielder from Crystal Palace, as his fifth choice. Wharton is a good defensive midfielder who can pass the ball well.

I picked Carlos Baleba, a midfielder from Brighton, as my sixth choice. Baleba is a good player who can score and create chances.

This is the Gab & Juls draft of players born in 2004.

I picked Mateus Fernandes, a midfielder from West Ham, as my seventh choice. Fernandes is a good passer who can create chances.

Juls picked Valentín Barco, a midfielder from Strasbourg, as his eighth choice. Barco is a good player who can score and create chances.

Juls picked Abdukodkir Khusanov, a defender from Manchester City, as his ninth choice. Khusanov is a good defender who can pass the ball well.

I picked Yankuba Minteh, a winger from Brighton, as my tenth choice. Minteh is a fast and exciting player who can score and create chances.

I picked Samu Aghehowa, a forward from Porto, as my eleventh choice. Aghehowa is a big and strong player who can score goals.

Juls picked Lamine Camara, a midfielder from Monaco, as his twelfth choice. Camara is a good player who can score and create chances.

Juls picked Joel Ordóñez, a defender from Club Brugge, as his thirteenth choice. Ordóñez is a versatile defender who can play in different positions.

I picked Ernest Poku, a winger from Bayer Leverkusen, as my fourteenth choice. Poku is a fast and exciting player who can score and create chances.

I picked Niccolò Pisilli, a midfielder from Roma, as my fifteenth choice. Pisilli is a good player who can create chances and score goals.

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Juls picked Santiago Castro, a forward from Bologna, as his sixteenth choice. Castro is a good player who can score goals.

Juls picked Noah Sadiki, a midfielder from Sunderland, as his seventeenth choice. Sadiki is a good player who can create chances and score goals.

I picked Wilson Odobert, a winger from Tottenham Hotspur, as my eighteenth choice. Odobert is a fast and exciting player who can score and create chances.

I picked Alejandro Garnacho, a winger from Chelsea, as my nineteenth choice. Garnacho is a good player who can score and create chances.

Juls picked Andrey Santos, a midfielder from Chelsea, as his twentieth choice.

Andrey Santos is a good player who can create chances and score goals. He was one of the best players in Ligue 1 last season.

Here are the past drafts.

My picks from the past draft were worth 466m when I drafted them and are now worth 479m. This is an increase of 2.79%.

Juls' picks from the past draft were worth 520m when he drafted them and are now worth 608m. This is an increase of 16.92%.

We missed out on some good players in the past draft, including Alvaro Carreras and Rasmus Hojlund.

Ryan O'Hanlon and Tor-Kristian Karlsen also joined us in the draft. They picked some good players, including Pedri and Josko Gvardiol.

My picks from another past draft were worth 220 million when I drafted them and are now worth 317m. This is an increase of 44.09%.

Juls' picks from another past draft were worth 275m when he drafted them and are now worth 283m. This is an increase of 2.91%.

We missed out on some good players in another past draft, including Hugo Ekitike and Morgan Rogers.

My picks from another past draft were worth 580m when I drafted them and are now worth 459m. This is a decrease of 20.86%.

Juls' picks from another past draft were worth 530m when he drafted them and are now worth 633m. This is an increase of 19.43%.

We missed out on some good players in another past draft, including Joao Pedro and Willian Pacho.

We only chose 10 players in our first draft.

My picks from our first draft were worth 370m when I drafted them and are now worth 380m. This is an increase of 2.7%.

Juls' picks from our first draft were worth 338m when he drafted them and are now worth 395m. This is an increase of 16.86%.

We missed out on some good players in our first draft, including Vitinha and Dominik Szoboszlai.

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