Malick
Yalcouyé
CMCote d'Ivoire · Swansea City
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Player dossierPremier League
MalickYalcouyé
CMCentral MidfieldMidfield
- Club
- Swansea City
- League
- Premier League
- Nationality
- Cote d'Ivoire
- Age
- 20
- Height
- 169 cm
- Foot
- Right
- Valued
- 28 May 2026
Premier LeagueReading the valuation
The market values Yalcouyé at €12M. Model A, which never saw Yalcouyé during training, estimates €6M: the market value is 101% above that estimate.
That is a factor of ×2.01. 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 €1.9M, 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.
- Apps
- 11
- Minutes
- 773
- Goals
- 0
- Assists
- 0
- Started
- 8/11
- Min / app
- 70
- Cards
- 2Y 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 Yalcouyé…
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 €12M
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.
80% this player0% midfielder median100th 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
- €700k
- Apr 2024
- Peak
- €17M
- Jun 2025
- Model target
- €12M
- May 2026
- Valuations
- 7
- 2 club changes
May 2026: €12M, Swansea City. Dotted lines mark the €2M, €10M and €30M tier boundaries.
Show as a table
| Date | Market value | Club |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-04-30 | €700k | IFK Göteborg |
| 2024-06-13 | €5M | IFK Göteborg |
| 2024-12-17 | €13M | SK Sturm Graz |
| 2025-06-06 | €17M | SK Sturm Graz |
| 2025-12-03 | €14M | Swansea City |
| 2026-03-03 | €12M | Swansea City |
| 2026-05-28 | €12M | Swansea 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
- +0.698
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 36% of the 555 Premier League players.
See them in the Explorer →Midfielders, all leagues1,687 players · median €2M
Valued above 81% of the 1,687 midfielders.
See them in the Explorer →Where Yalcouyé appears
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Near this valuation closest observed values: same league, then same position
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- SzymanskiAMStade Rennais FC · midfielders€12M
- CamaraCMStade Rennais FC · midfielders€12M
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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).