Ngal'ayel
Mukau
DMDR Congo · LOSC Lille
Player dossierLigue 1
Ngal'ayelMukau
DMDefensive MidfieldMidfield
- Club
- LOSC Lille
- League
- Ligue 1
- Nationality
- DR Congo
- Age
- 21
- Height
- 186 cm
- Foot
- Left
- Valued
- 1 Jun 2026
Ligue 1Reading the valuation
The market values Mukau at €15M. Model A, which never saw Mukau during training, estimates €24.7M: the market value is 39% below that estimate.
That is a factor of ×1.65. Model A's typical held-out miss is ×1.50 either way, so this gap is larger than its usual error.
Without league and club, Model B estimates €23.2M, closer to the market here, although it is usually further off (typical miss ×2.07).
A gap describes the model's arithmetic for this player's inputs, not what the player is worth.
- Apps
- 74
- Minutes
- 4,057
- Goals
- 4
- Assists
- 1
- Started
- 48/74
- Min / app
- 55
- Cards
- 10Y 0R
Club matches, two years to the valuation date
The Valuation Journey
What moves Model A
Asking the prediction API to explain Model A for Mukau…
SHAP describes the model's arithmetic for this player's inputs, not what causes market value. Model B can be explained only by the live service; Model A also has a published explanation for the research players.
Model A vs Model B against the observed €15M
Checking APIAsking the prediction API…
Held-out estimates come from cross-validation, with this player outside the training data: the honest comparison. Served models were refitted on every player, this one included, so they sit closer to the market. Shaded band: Model A's typical miss (×1.50 either way).
Player traitspercentiles vs 1,687 midfielders
Dashed ring: the midfielder median (50th percentile)
European club minutes
Share of minutes played in UEFA club competitions.
33% this player0% midfielder median97th percentile
No passing, progression or defensive actions exist in the dataset, so no trait claims to measure them.
Valuation history every Transfermarkt valuation on record
- First valuation
- €200k
- Mar 2023
- Peak
- €15M
- Mar 2025
- Model target
- €15M
- Jun 2026
- Valuations
- 12
- 2 club changes
Jun 2026: €15M, LOSC Lille. Dotted lines mark the €2M, €10M and €30M tier boundaries.
Show as a table
| Date | Market value | Club |
|---|---|---|
| 2023-03-22 | €200k | Jong KV Mechelen |
| 2023-06-09 | €300k | Jong KV Mechelen |
| 2023-10-23 | €650k | KV Mechelen |
| 2023-12-19 | €600k | KV Mechelen |
| 2024-03-22 | €1M | KV Mechelen |
| 2024-06-04 | €3M | KV Mechelen |
| 2024-10-07 | €4M | LOSC Lille |
| 2024-12-10 | €10M | LOSC Lille |
| 2025-03-24 | €15M | LOSC Lille |
| 2025-06-03 | €15M | LOSC Lille |
| 2025-12-15 | €12M | LOSC Lille |
| 2026-06-01 | €15M | LOSC Lille |
Audit context group-level, not about this player
- Audit group
- non-UEFA
- Population gap, Model A
- +0.093 95% CI +0.063 to +0.124
- This player, market vs held-out A
- −0.499
The group comes from first-listed citizenship and is never a model input. Across the population, non-UEFA players' market values sit about 10% above Model A's held-out estimates, relative to UEFA players in the same leagues. One player's residual says nothing about that pattern (typical miss ×1.50), and none of it is evidence of discrimination: the target may itself be biased. Open the Fairness Audit
In context observed value among comparable players in this build
All players in the Terminal →Ligue 1423 players · median €5M
Valued above 76% of the 423 Ligue 1 players.
See them in the Explorer →Midfielders, all leagues1,687 players · median €2M
Valued above 83% of the 1,687 midfielders.
See them in the Explorer →Where Mukau appears
- TerminalLigue 1 in the Player Explorer
- TerminalLigue 1 on the League Landscape
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Near this valuation closest observed values: same league, then same position
- HøjbjergDMOlympique Marseille · Ligue 1€15M
- EmboloCFStade Rennais FC · Ligue 1€15M
- NiakhatéCBOlympique Lyon · Ligue 1€15M
- AguerdCBOlympique Marseille · Ligue 1€15M
- BrandtAMBorussia Dortmund · midfielders€15M
- AursnesCMSL Benfica · midfielders€15M
- PalhinhaDMTottenham Hotspur · midfielders€15M
- AsensioAMFenerbahce · midfielders€15M
Counts and ranks of observed Transfermarkt values only; model errors are never ranked here. Full player export: Every player in the modelling population (D-011).