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Alassane

Pléa

CFFrance · PSV Eindhoven

№ 167329Established €756k +1.20

Player dossierEredivisie

AlassanePléa

CFCentre-ForwardAttack

Club
PSV Eindhoven
League
Eredivisie
Nationality
France
Age
33
Height
181 cm
Foot
Right
Valued
28 May 2026

Reading the valuation

The market values Pléa at €2.5M. Model A, which never saw Pléa during training, estimates €756k: the market value is 230% above that estimate.

That is a factor of ×3.30. 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 €908k, 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.

▲ +1.20A €756k▲ +1.01B €908k
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
35
Minutes
2,198
Goals
12
Assists
8
Started
28/35
Min / app
63
Cards
3Y 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 Pléa…

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 €2.5M

Checking API
EmergingEstablishedEliteWorld Class€2M€10M€30M€100k€1M€100MMarket €2.5MModel A €756k

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

Alassane Pléa's percentiles among attackers: Goals per 90 87th, Assists per 90 93rd, Minutes, two years 50th, Starts 83rd, Minutes, last 365 days 5th, European club minutes 28th87thGoals93rdAssists50thMinutes83rdStarts5thRecent28thEurope

Dashed ring: the attacker median (50th percentile)

Assists per 90

Club assists per 90 minutes in the same window.

0.33 this player0.15 attacker median93rd percentile

0.00peer deciles · median line · this player ●0.73

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
€250k
Sept 2012
Peak
€38M
Dec 2018
Model target
€2.5M
May 2026
Valuations
38
3 club changes
May 2026€2.5MPSV EindhovenValuation the model is trained to reproduce

May 2026: €2.5M, PSV Eindhoven. Dotted lines mark the €2M, €10M and €30M tier boundaries.

Show as a table
DateMarket valueClub
2012-09-05€250kOlympique Lyon
2013-01-07€400kOlympique Lyon
2013-05-30€500kOlympique Lyon
2014-01-14€750kOlympique Lyon
2014-08-07€1MOlympique Lyon
2015-01-14€1.5MOGC Nice
2015-06-06€2.5MOGC Nice
2015-09-06€4.5MOGC Nice
2016-02-04€4MOGC Nice
2016-07-13€5MOGC Nice
2016-11-01€7MOGC Nice
2017-01-16€12MOGC Nice
2017-06-01€12MOGC Nice
2018-01-24€15MOGC Nice
2018-06-04€18MOGC Nice
2018-08-22€23MBorussia Mönchengladbach
2018-10-22€28MBorussia Mönchengladbach
2018-12-18€38MBorussia Mönchengladbach
2019-06-05€30MBorussia Mönchengladbach
2019-12-17€30MBorussia Mönchengladbach
2020-04-08€24MBorussia Mönchengladbach
2020-07-08€30MBorussia Mönchengladbach
2020-11-26€35MBorussia Mönchengladbach
2021-02-10€30MBorussia Mönchengladbach
2021-03-31€25MBorussia Mönchengladbach
2021-06-09€22MBorussia Mönchengladbach
2021-10-07€18MBorussia Mönchengladbach
2021-12-22€15MBorussia Mönchengladbach
2022-06-09€15MBorussia Mönchengladbach
2022-11-09€15MBorussia Mönchengladbach
2023-03-29€10MBorussia Mönchengladbach
2023-06-22€8MBorussia Mönchengladbach
2023-12-14€8MBorussia Mönchengladbach
2024-05-29€7MBorussia Mönchengladbach
2024-12-20€6MBorussia Mönchengladbach
2025-06-05€5MBorussia Mönchengladbach
2025-12-02€3MPSV Eindhoven
2026-05-28€2.5MPSV Eindhoven

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
+1.195

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 →

Eredivisie425 players · median €1M

Valued above 68% of the 425 Eredivisie players.

€75k€500k€3M€20M€2.5MSee them in the Explorer →

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

Valued above 48% of the 1,583 attackers.

€20k€300k€5M€75M€2.5MSee them in the Explorer →

Where Pléa 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).