It's the quadrennial question. What's more important for a national team: talent or form?

With the third-to-last international break before the FIFA World Cup upon us, I have some good news: we actually don't need to answer that question. Instead, we're going to operate from an alternative premise: What if talent and form are both really important? At least, that's the idea behind the rankings you're about to read through.

We want to get a sense of where every national team stands ahead of next summer, so we've looked at every country that still hasn't been eliminated from World Cup contention, and then ranked them by equal parts performance and results.

As a proxy for talent, this ranking uses the average, estimated transfer value of each player on each team's most recent roster fr

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