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Marcos

Alonso

CBSpain · Celta de Vigo

№ 112515Emerging €1.6M −0.26

Player dossierLaLiga

MarcosAlonso

CBCentre-BackDefender

Club
Celta de Vigo
League
LaLiga
Nationality
Spain
Age
35
Height
188 cm
Foot
Left
Valued
5 Jun 2026

Reading the valuation

The market values Alonso at €1.2M. Model A, which never saw Alonso during training, estimates €1.6M: the market value is 23% below that estimate.

That is a factor of ×1.30. Model A's typical held-out miss is ×1.50 either way, so this gap is within its usual error.

Without league and club, Model B estimates €2.2M, 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.

▼ −0.26A €1.6M▼ −0.59B €2.2M
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
76
Minutes
6,618
Goals
5
Assists
0
Started
73/76
Min / app
87
Cards
18Y 1R

Club matches, two years to the valuation date

The Valuation Journey

What moves Model A

Asking the prediction API to explain Model A for Alonso…

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 €1.2M

Checking API
EmergingEstablishedEliteWorld Class€2M€10M€30M€100k€1M€100MMarket €1.2MModel A €1.6M

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 2,065 defenders

Marcos Alonso's percentiles among defenders: Goals per 90 74th, Assists per 90 17th, Minutes, two years 96th, Starts 87th, Minutes, last 365 days 98th, European club minutes 78th74thGoals17thAssists96thMinutes87thStarts98thRecent78thEurope

Dashed ring: the defender median (50th percentile)

Minutes, last 365 days

Club minutes in the final year of the window: recent involvement, or the absence of it.

3,759 this player1,687 defender median98th percentile

0peer deciles · median line · this player ●4,941

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
€1.5M
Jul 2010
Peak
€45M
Oct 2018
Model target
€1.2M
Jun 2026
Valuations
44
6 club changes
Jun 2026€1.2MCelta de VigoValuation the model is trained to reproduce

Jun 2026: €1.2M, Celta de Vigo. Dotted lines mark the €2M, €10M and €30M tier boundaries.

Show as a table
DateMarket valueClub
2010-07-28€1.5MBolton Wanderers
2011-02-01€2MBolton Wanderers
2011-08-08€2MBolton Wanderers
2012-02-06€1.5MBolton Wanderers
2012-06-24€1.5MBolton Wanderers
2013-03-02€1.5MBolton Wanderers
2013-07-11€2MACF Fiorentina
2014-01-15€2MSunderland AFC
2014-11-08€3MACF Fiorentina
2015-01-07€3MACF Fiorentina
2015-07-01€2.8MACF Fiorentina
2015-11-05€5.5MACF Fiorentina
2016-01-04€8MACF Fiorentina
2016-07-15€9MACF Fiorentina
2016-10-24€13MChelsea FC
2017-02-20€20MChelsea FC
2017-06-28€25MChelsea FC
2018-01-02€30MChelsea FC
2018-03-23€35MChelsea FC
2018-05-28€40MChelsea FC
2018-10-17€45MChelsea FC
2018-12-19€45MChelsea FC
2019-06-13€40MChelsea FC
2019-09-12€32MChelsea FC
2019-12-10€25MChelsea FC
2020-04-08€20MChelsea FC
2020-07-30€18MChelsea FC
2020-10-13€18MChelsea FC
2020-12-17€13MChelsea FC
2021-03-18€13MChelsea FC
2021-06-08€12MChelsea FC
2021-10-05€15MChelsea FC
2021-12-23€15MChelsea FC
2022-06-15€12MChelsea FC
2022-11-07€9MFC Barcelona
2023-03-23€7MFC Barcelona
2023-06-13€5MFC Barcelona
2023-10-13€3MFC Barcelona
2023-12-22€3MFC Barcelona
2024-06-07€2MFC Barcelona
2024-12-27€1.8MCelta de Vigo
2025-06-09€1.5MCelta de Vigo
2025-12-12€1.4MCelta de Vigo
2026-06-05€1.2MCelta de Vigo

Audit context group-level, not about this player

Audit group
UEFA
Population gap, Model A
+0.093 95% CI +0.063 to +0.124
This player, market vs held-out A
−0.260

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 →

LaLiga509 players · median €4M

Valued above 15% of the 509 LaLiga players.

€100k€1M€10M€100M€1.2MSee them in the Explorer →

Defenders, all leagues2,065 players · median €2M

Valued above 39% of the 2,065 defenders.

€20k€200k€2M€20M€1.2MSee them in the Explorer →

Where Alonso 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).