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Portrait of Yussuf Poulsen

Yussuf

Poulsen

CFDenmark · Hamburger SV

№ 157635Emerging €1.4M −0.36

Image: FootyLogos

Player dossierBundesliga

YussufPoulsen

CFCentre-ForwardAttack

Club
Hamburger SV
League
Bundesliga
Nationality
Denmark
Age
31
Height
192 cm
Foot
Right
Valued
27 May 2026

Reading the valuation

The market values Poulsen at €1M. Model A, which never saw Poulsen during training, estimates €1.4M: the market value is 30% below that estimate.

That is a factor of ×1.44. 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 €1.6M, 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.

▼ −0.36A €1.4M▼ −0.47B €1.6M
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
45
Minutes
926
Goals
6
Assists
0
Started
5/45
Min / app
21
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 Poulsen…

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 €1M

Checking API
EmergingEstablishedEliteWorld Class€2M€10M€30M€100k€1M€100MMarket €1MModel A €1.4M

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

Yussuf Poulsen's percentiles among attackers: Goals per 90 94th, Assists per 90 6th, Minutes, two years 16th, Starts 1st, Minutes, last 365 days 8th, European club minutes 78th94thGoals6thAssists16thMinutes1stStarts8thRecent78thEurope

Dashed ring: the attacker median (50th percentile)

Goals per 90

Club goals per 90 minutes played in the two years to the valuation date.

0.58 this player0.26 attacker median94th percentile

0.00peer deciles · median line · this player ●1.17

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
€50k
Feb 2012
Peak
€35M
Jun 2019
Model target
€1M
May 2026
Valuations
36
2 club changes
May 2026€1MHamburger SVValuation the model is trained to reproduce

May 2026: €1M, Hamburger SV. Dotted lines mark the €2M, €10M and €30M tier boundaries.

Show as a table
DateMarket valueClub
2012-02-05€50kLyngby Boldklub
2013-01-11€300kLyngby Boldklub
2013-05-24€400kLyngby Boldklub
2013-08-09€500kRB Leipzig
2014-06-30€700kRB Leipzig
2014-10-01€1.5MRB Leipzig
2015-01-13€2.5MRB Leipzig
2015-07-01€4MRB Leipzig
2016-02-11€4MRB Leipzig
2016-07-22€5MRB Leipzig
2017-02-07€6MRB Leipzig
2017-06-19€10MRB Leipzig
2017-12-28€10MRB Leipzig
2018-06-05€10MRB Leipzig
2018-10-22€15MRB Leipzig
2018-12-18€20MRB Leipzig
2019-03-06€30MRB Leipzig
2019-06-05€35MRB Leipzig
2019-12-17€35MRB Leipzig
2020-03-11€30MRB Leipzig
2020-04-08€24MRB Leipzig
2020-09-16€25MRB Leipzig
2021-02-10€25MRB Leipzig
2021-05-26€21MRB Leipzig
2021-12-22€21MRB Leipzig
2022-06-09€14MRB Leipzig
2022-09-21€10MRB Leipzig
2022-11-09€10MRB Leipzig
2023-06-22€7MRB Leipzig
2023-12-14€7MRB Leipzig
2024-05-29€6MRB Leipzig
2024-12-20€5MRB Leipzig
2025-06-05€5MRB Leipzig
2025-10-14€2.5MHamburger SV
2025-12-19€1.5MHamburger SV
2026-05-27€1MHamburger SV

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
−0.362

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 →

Bundesliga451 players · median €5M

Valued above 7% of the 451 Bundesliga players.

€300k€2M€15M€100M€1MSee them in the Explorer →

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

Valued above 29% of the 1,583 attackers.

€20k€300k€5M€75M€1MSee them in the Explorer →

Where Poulsen 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).