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Portrait of Mike Maignan

Mike

Maignan

GKFrance · AC Milan

№ 182906Elite €10.9M +0.60

Photo: Bryan Berlin / WikiPortraits, CC BY-SA 4.0 (background removed)

Player dossierSerie A

MikeMaignan

GKGoalkeeperGoalkeeper

Club
AC Milan
League
Serie A
Nationality
France
Age
30
Height
191 cm
Foot
Right
Valued
29 May 2026

Reading the valuation

The market values Maignan at €20M. Model A, which never saw Maignan during training, estimates €10.9M: the market value is 83% above that estimate.

That is a factor of ×1.83. 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 €9.1M, 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.

▲ +0.60A €10.9M▲ +0.79B €9.1M
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
94
Minutes
8,352
Started
94/94
Min / app
89
Cards
6Y 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 Maignan…

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 €20M

Checking API
EmergingEstablishedEliteWorld Class€2M€10M€30M€100k€1M€100MMarket €20MModel A €10.9M

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 485 goalkeepers

Mike Maignan's percentiles among goalkeepers: Minutes, two years 98th, Starts 62nd, Minutes, last 365 days 94th, European club minutes 74th98thMinutes62ndStarts94thRecent74thEurope

Dashed ring: the goalkeeper median (50th percentile)

Minutes, two years

Total club minutes in the two-year window: how much the player was used.

8,352 this player2,790 goalkeeper median98th percentile

450peer deciles · median line · this player ●9,210

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
Jul 2013
Peak
€45M
Jun 2023
Model target
€20M
May 2026
Valuations
35
2 club changes
May 2026€20MAC MilanValuation the model is trained to reproduce

May 2026: €20M, AC Milan. Dotted lines mark the €2M, €10M and €30M tier boundaries.

Show as a table
DateMarket valueClub
2013-07-02€250kParis Saint-Germain
2014-01-14€250kParis Saint-Germain
2014-08-01€250kParis Saint-Germain
2015-01-14€250kParis Saint-Germain
2015-06-06€250kParis Saint-Germain
2015-09-06€1MLOSC Lille
2016-02-04€1MLOSC Lille
2016-07-13€800kLOSC Lille
2017-01-16€800kLOSC Lille
2017-06-01€800kLOSC Lille
2017-10-12€1.8MLOSC Lille
2018-01-24€4MLOSC Lille
2018-06-04€4MLOSC Lille
2018-10-24€7MLOSC Lille
2018-12-17€9MLOSC Lille
2019-03-07€12MLOSC Lille
2019-06-03€17.5MLOSC Lille
2019-09-27€22MLOSC Lille
2019-12-19€22MLOSC Lille
2020-04-08€17.5MLOSC Lille
2020-10-15€20MLOSC Lille
2021-04-09€25MLOSC Lille
2021-06-01€25MLOSC Lille
2021-12-28€25MAC Milan
2022-06-07€35MAC Milan
2022-11-11€35MAC Milan
2023-06-15€45MAC Milan
2023-12-20€45MAC Milan
2024-03-12€40MAC Milan
2024-06-05€38MAC Milan
2024-12-18€35MAC Milan
2025-03-25€25MAC Milan
2025-06-17€25MAC Milan
2025-12-23€25MAC Milan
2026-05-29€20MAC Milan

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
+0.605

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 →

Serie A507 players · median €5.5M

Valued above 82% of the 507 Serie A players.

€100k€750k€5M€30M€20MSee them in the Explorer →

Goalkeepers, all leagues485 players · median €1M

Valued above 95% of the 485 goalkeepers.

€20k€200k€2M€20M€20MSee them in the Explorer →

Where Maignan 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).