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Paul

Gladon

CFNetherlands · Fortuna Sittard

№ 180843Emerging €199k −0.28

Player dossierEredivisie

PaulGladon

CFCentre-ForwardAttack

Club
Fortuna Sittard
League
Eredivisie
Nationality
Netherlands
Age
34
Height
188 cm
Foot
Right
Valued
28 May 2026

Reading the valuation

The market values Gladon at €150k. Model A, which never saw Gladon during training, estimates €199k: the market value is 25% below that estimate.

That is a factor of ×1.33. 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 €511k, 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.

▼ −0.28A €199k▼ −1.23B €511k
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
33
Minutes
1,042
Goals
5
Assists
2
Started
6/33
Min / app
32
Cards
1Y 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 Gladon…

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 €150k

Checking API
EmergingEstablishedEliteWorld Class€2M€10M€30M€100k€1M€100MMarket €150kModel A €199k

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

Paul Gladon's percentiles among attackers: Goals per 90 81st, Assists per 90 60th, Minutes, two years 20th, Starts 3rd, Minutes, last 365 days 39th, European club minutes 28th81stGoals60thAssists20thMinutes3rdStarts39thRecent28thEurope

Dashed ring: the attacker median (50th percentile)

Goals per 90

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

0.43 this player0.26 attacker median81st 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
Mar 2011
Peak
€1M
Sept 2016
Model target
€150k
May 2026
Valuations
28
14 club changes
May 2026€150kFortuna SittardValuation the model is trained to reproduce

May 2026: €150k, Fortuna Sittard. Dotted lines mark the €2M, €10M and €30M tier boundaries.

Show as a table
DateMarket valueClub
2011-03-08€50kSparta Rotterdam U19
2013-06-05€50kSparta Rotterdam
2014-02-10€150kFC Dordrecht
2014-08-15€400kSparta Rotterdam
2015-02-21€350kSparta Rotterdam
2015-07-01€350kHeracles Almelo
2016-02-05€400kHeracles Almelo
2016-07-15€650kHeracles Almelo
2016-09-01€1MWolverhampton Wanderers
2017-02-27€750kWolverhampton Wanderers
2017-10-26€850kHeracles Almelo
2018-01-17€850kHeracles Almelo
2018-06-12€700kHeracles Almelo
2018-12-27€500kSint-Truidense VV
2019-06-12€600kFC Groningen
2019-12-18€600kWillem II Tilburg
2020-04-08€475kWillem II Tilburg
2020-10-14€475kWillem II Tilburg
2021-05-19€450kFC Emmen
2022-06-08€450kFortuna Sittard
2022-11-11€450kFortuna Sittard
2023-06-23€500kFortuna Sittard
2023-09-18€450kFC Noah Yerevan
2023-12-14€350kFC Noah Yerevan
2024-06-07€300kFC Noah Yerevan
2025-04-04€200kWithout Club
2025-12-02€200kFortuna Sittard
2026-05-28€150kFortuna Sittard

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
−0.284

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

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Eredivisie425 players · median €1M

Valued above 1% of the 425 Eredivisie players.

€75k€500k€3M€20M€150kSee them in the Explorer →

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

Valued above 2% of the 1,583 attackers.

€20k€300k€5M€75M€150kSee them in the Explorer →

Where Gladon 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).