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Portrait of Jordan Ayew

Jordan

Ayew

CFGhana · Leicester City

№ 108354Emerging €1.2M +0.43

Image: FootyLogos

Player dossierPremier League

JordanAyew

CFCentre-ForwardAttack

Club
Leicester City
League
Premier League
Nationality
Ghana
Age
34
Height
182 cm
Foot
Right
Valued
3 Dec 2025

Reading the valuation

The market values Ayew at €1.8M. Model A, which never saw Ayew during training, estimates €1.2M: the market value is 53% above that estimate.

That is a factor of ×1.53. 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 €260k, further from the market. Model B is usually further off (typical miss ×2.07): league and club explain much of how the market prices players.

A gap describes the model's arithmetic for this player's inputs, not what the player is worth.

▲ +0.43A €1.2M▲ +1.94B €260k
Pitch length is a log value scale fitted to this player's figures. ● observed · ◇ Model A · dashed ◇ Model B · each arc is a residual, log(observed) − log(estimate).
Apps
56
Minutes
3,269
Goals
9
Assists
5
Started
38/56
Min / app
58
Cards
11Y 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 Ayew…

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 €1.8M

Checking API
EmergingEstablishedEliteWorld Class€2M€10M€30M€100k€1M€100MMarket €1.8MModel A €1.2M

Asking 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 1,583 attackers

Jordan Ayew's percentiles among attackers: Goals per 90 47th, Assists per 90 46th, Minutes, two years 70th, Starts 65th, Minutes, last 365 days 45th, European club minutes 28th47thGoals46thAssists70thMinutes65thStarts45thRecent28thEurope

Dashed ring: the attacker median (50th percentile)

Minutes, two years

Total club minutes in the two-year window: how much the player was used.

3,269 this player2,242 attacker median70th percentile

450peer deciles · median line · this player ●8,788

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
€300k
Dec 2009
Peak
€10M
Jul 2020
Model target
€1.8M
Dec 2025
Valuations
41
8 club changes
Dec 2025€1.8MLeicester CityValuation the model is trained to reproduce

Dec 2025: €1.8M, Leicester City. Dotted lines mark the €2M, €10M and €30M tier boundaries.

Show as a table
DateMarket valueClub
2009-12-26€300kOlympique Marseille
2010-05-18€800kOlympique Marseille
2010-12-28€1MOlympique Marseille
2011-05-24€1.7MOlympique Marseille
2011-06-03€2MOlympique Marseille
2011-12-24€3.8MOlympique Marseille
2012-02-02€4MOlympique Marseille
2012-05-23€4MOlympique Marseille
2013-01-07€5MOlympique Marseille
2013-05-30€5.5MOlympique Marseille
2013-06-12€5MOlympique Marseille
2014-01-14€4MFC Sochaux-Montbéliard
2014-02-05€3MFC Sochaux-Montbéliard
2014-08-07€3.5MFC Lorient
2015-01-14€4.5MFC Lorient
2015-06-06€6MFC Lorient
2015-10-14€9MAston Villa
2016-02-09€7.5MAston Villa
2016-09-01€7.5MAston Villa
2017-02-20€7.5MSwansea City
2017-06-28€7.5MSwansea City
2018-01-02€7MSwansea City
2018-05-28€8MSwansea City
2018-12-19€8MCrystal Palace
2019-06-13€8MSwansea City
2019-12-10€8MCrystal Palace
2020-04-08€6.5MCrystal Palace
2020-07-30€10MCrystal Palace
2020-10-13€10MCrystal Palace
2021-03-18€8MCrystal Palace
2021-06-08€8MCrystal Palace
2021-12-23€6MCrystal Palace
2022-06-15€6MCrystal Palace
2022-11-03€6MCrystal Palace
2023-06-20€5MCrystal Palace
2023-12-19€4MCrystal Palace
2024-05-27€4MCrystal Palace
2024-12-16€3.5MLeicester City
2025-05-30€2.5MLeicester City
2025-10-06€2.2MLeicester City
2025-12-03€1.8MLeicester City

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
+0.427

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 →

Premier League555 players · median €18M

Valued above 9% of the 555 Premier League players.

€150k€1M€7.5M€50M€1.8MSee them in the Explorer →

Attackers, all leagues1,583 players · median €2.5M

Valued above 43% of the 1,583 attackers.

€20k€300k€5M€75M€1.8MSee them in the Explorer →

Where Ayew appears

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Near this valuation closest observed values: same league, then same position

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).