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Florian

Thauvin

RWFrance · RC Lens

№ 184892Established €4.9M +0.03

Player dossierLigue 1

FlorianThauvin

RWRight WingerAttack

Club
RC Lens
League
Ligue 1
Nationality
France
Age
33
Height
181 cm
Foot
Left
Valued
1 Jun 2026

Reading the valuation

The market values Thauvin at €5M. Model A, which never saw Thauvin during training, estimates €4.9M: the market value is 3% above that estimate.

That is a factor of ×1.03. 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 €1.4M, 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.

▲ +0.03A €4.9M▲ +1.24B €1.4M
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
59
Minutes
4,498
Goals
20
Assists
11
Started
54/59
Min / app
76
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 Thauvin…

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 €5M

Checking API
EmergingEstablishedEliteWorld Class€2M€10M€30M€100k€1M€100MMarket €5MModel A €4.9M

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 1,583 attackers

Florian Thauvin's percentiles among attackers: Goals per 90 77th, Assists per 90 76th, Minutes, two years 86th, Starts 96th, Minutes, last 365 days 86th, European club minutes 28th77thGoals76thAssists86thMinutes96thStarts86thRecent28thEurope

Dashed ring: the attacker median (50th percentile)

Starts

Share of appearances started rather than entered from the bench.

92% this player59% attacker median96th percentile

5%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
€150k
Sept 2011
Peak
€50M
Jun 2018
Model target
€5M
Jun 2026
Valuations
44
10 club changes
Jun 2026€5MRC LensValuation the model is trained to reproduce

Jun 2026: €5M, RC Lens. Dotted lines mark the €2M, €10M and €30M tier boundaries.

Show as a table
DateMarket valueClub
2011-09-09€150kSC Bastia
2011-12-25€150kSC Bastia
2012-06-01€300kSC Bastia
2012-07-25€500kSC Bastia
2013-01-07€1.8MSC Bastia
2013-01-23€2.5MSC Bastia
2013-01-30€3MLOSC Lille
2013-05-30€5MSC Bastia
2013-06-12€6MSC Bastia
2013-09-13€8.5MOlympique Marseille
2013-09-16€12MOlympique Marseille
2014-01-14€14MOlympique Marseille
2014-08-07€14MOlympique Marseille
2015-01-14€14MOlympique Marseille
2015-06-06€12MOlympique Marseille
2015-10-14€14MNewcastle United
2016-02-04€12MOlympique Marseille
2016-04-09€9MOlympique Marseille
2016-07-01€9MNewcastle United
2016-11-01€11MOlympique Marseille
2017-01-16€11MOlympique Marseille
2017-06-01€18MOlympique Marseille
2018-01-24€28MOlympique Marseille
2018-06-04€50MOlympique Marseille
2018-12-17€50MOlympique Marseille
2019-06-03€45MOlympique Marseille
2019-12-19€40MOlympique Marseille
2020-04-08€32MOlympique Marseille
2020-10-15€32MOlympique Marseille
2021-04-09€28MOlympique Marseille
2021-06-04€17MOlympique Marseille
2021-10-15€14MTigres UANL
2022-04-11€12MTigres UANL
2022-09-08€10MTigres UANL
2022-10-31€10MTigres UANL
2023-03-21€7.5MUdinese Calcio
2023-06-15€3.5MUdinese Calcio
2023-12-20€3MUdinese Calcio
2024-06-05€3MUdinese Calcio
2024-10-18€5MUdinese Calcio
2024-12-18€5MUdinese Calcio
2025-06-17€5MUdinese Calcio
2025-12-15€5MRC Lens
2026-06-01€5MRC Lens

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
+0.026

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 →

Ligue 1423 players · median €5M

Valued above 45% of the 423 Ligue 1 players.

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

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

Valued above 64% of the 1,583 attackers.

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

Where Thauvin 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).