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Portrait of Bertrand Traoré

Bertrand

Traoré

RWBurkina Faso · Sunderland AFC

№ 131996Established €8.5M −0.76

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Player dossierPremier League

BertrandTraoré

RWRight WingerAttack

Club
Sunderland AFC
League
Premier League
Nationality
Burkina Faso
Age
30
Height
181 cm
Foot
Left
Valued
3 Jun 2026

Reading the valuation

The market values Traoré at €4M. Model A, which never saw Traoré during training, estimates €8.5M: the market value is 53% below that estimate.

That is a factor of ×2.13. 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 €4.2M, 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.

▼ −0.76A €8.5M▼ −0.06B €4.2M
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
62
Minutes
3,423
Goals
11
Assists
8
Started
40/62
Min / app
55
Cards
5Y 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 Traoré…

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 €4M

Checking API
EmergingEstablishedEliteWorld Class€2M€10M€30M€100k€1M€100MMarket €4MModel A €8.5M

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

Bertrand Traoré's percentiles among attackers: Goals per 90 55th, Assists per 90 73rd, Minutes, two years 73rd, Starts 60th, Minutes, last 365 days 24th, European club minutes 90th55thGoals73rdAssists73rdMinutes60thStarts24thRecent90thEurope

Dashed ring: the attacker median (50th percentile)

European club minutes

Share of minutes played in UEFA club competitions.

25% this player0% attacker median90th percentile

0%peer deciles · median line · this player ●100%

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
€175k
Jan 2012
Peak
€20M
Jun 2021
Model target
€4M
Jun 2026
Valuations
29
10 club changes
Jun 2026€4MSunderland AFCValuation the model is trained to reproduce

Jun 2026: €4M, Sunderland AFC. Dotted lines mark the €2M, €10M and €30M tier boundaries.

Show as a table
DateMarket valueClub
2012-01-20€175kAJ Auxerre U17
2014-02-11€500kVitesse Arnhem
2014-08-10€1.5MVitesse Arnhem
2015-02-16€2.5MVitesse Arnhem
2015-07-01€4MChelsea FC
2016-02-09€4MChelsea FC
2016-08-01€4MChelsea FC
2017-01-18€5MAjax Amsterdam
2017-06-07€8MAjax Amsterdam
2018-01-24€12MOlympique Lyon
2018-06-04€18MOlympique Lyon
2018-12-17€18MOlympique Lyon
2019-06-03€15MOlympique Lyon
2019-12-19€12MOlympique Lyon
2020-04-08€9.5MOlympique Lyon
2020-10-13€13MAston Villa
2021-03-18€16MAston Villa
2021-06-08€20MAston Villa
2021-12-23€20MAston Villa
2022-06-15€16MAston Villa
2022-10-27€14MBasaksehir FK
2023-06-20€12MAston Villa
2023-12-19€10MAston Villa
2024-06-07€9MVillarreal CF
2024-12-17€9MAjax Amsterdam
2025-05-28€8MAjax Amsterdam
2025-10-17€5MSunderland AFC
2025-12-09€5MSunderland AFC
2026-06-03€4MSunderland AFC

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
−0.756

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 16% of the 555 Premier League players.

€150k€1M€7.5M€50M€4MSee them in the Explorer →

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

Valued above 59% of the 1,583 attackers.

€20k€300k€5M€75M€4MSee them in the Explorer →

Where Traoré 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).