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Portrait of Jonathan Tah

Jonathan

Tah

CBGermany · Bayern Munich

№ 196357Elite €26.4M +0.06

Image: FootyLogos

Player dossierBundesliga

JonathanTah

CBCentre-BackDefender

Club
Bayern Munich
League
Bundesliga
Nationality
Germany
Age
30
Height
195 cm
Foot
Right
Valued
27 May 2026

Reading the valuation

The market values Tah at €28M. Model A, which never saw Tah during training, estimates €26.4M: the market value is 6% above that estimate.

That is a factor of ×1.06. 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 €24.8M, 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.

▲ +0.06A €26.4M▲ +0.12B €24.8M
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
102
Minutes
8,471
Goals
7
Assists
4
Started
94/102
Min / app
83
Cards
17Y 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 Tah…

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 €28M

Checking API
EmergingEstablishedEliteWorld Class€2M€10M€30M€100k€1M€100MMarket €28MModel A €26.4M

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 2,065 defenders

Jonathan Tah's percentiles among defenders: Goals per 90 77th, Assists per 90 52nd, Minutes, two years 100th, Starts 76th, Minutes, last 365 days 99th, European club minutes 94th77thGoals52ndAssists100thMinutes76thStarts99thRecent94thEurope

Dashed ring: the defender median (50th percentile)

Minutes, two years

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

8,471 this player2,860 defender median100th percentile

451peer deciles · median line · this player ●9,111

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
€500k
Jul 2013
Peak
€40M
Aug 2018
Model target
€28M
May 2026
Valuations
37
4 club changes
May 2026€28MBayern MunichValuation the model is trained to reproduce

May 2026: €28M, Bayern Munich. Dotted lines mark the €2M, €10M and €30M tier boundaries.

Show as a table
DateMarket valueClub
2013-07-25€500kHamburger SV
2013-11-05€3.5MHamburger SV
2014-02-12€6.5MHamburger SV
2014-10-01€4MFortuna Düsseldorf
2015-01-13€4MFortuna Düsseldorf
2015-07-01€6MHamburger SV
2015-10-16€9MBayer 04 Leverkusen
2016-02-15€10MBayer 04 Leverkusen
2016-04-13€12MBayer 04 Leverkusen
2016-06-01€12MBayer 04 Leverkusen
2016-07-22€16MBayer 04 Leverkusen
2017-02-07€22MBayer 04 Leverkusen
2017-06-19€22MBayer 04 Leverkusen
2017-12-28€25MBayer 04 Leverkusen
2018-04-04€30MBayer 04 Leverkusen
2018-06-05€30MBayer 04 Leverkusen
2018-08-22€40MBayer 04 Leverkusen
2018-12-18€32MBayer 04 Leverkusen
2019-03-06€35MBayer 04 Leverkusen
2019-06-05€40MBayer 04 Leverkusen
2019-12-17€37MBayer 04 Leverkusen
2020-04-08€29.5MBayer 04 Leverkusen
2020-07-08€24MBayer 04 Leverkusen
2020-11-26€20MBayer 04 Leverkusen
2021-02-10€20MBayer 04 Leverkusen
2021-06-09€22MBayer 04 Leverkusen
2021-12-22€25MBayer 04 Leverkusen
2022-06-09€25MBayer 04 Leverkusen
2022-11-09€20MBayer 04 Leverkusen
2023-06-22€20MBayer 04 Leverkusen
2023-12-14€25MBayer 04 Leverkusen
2024-03-27€30MBayer 04 Leverkusen
2024-05-29€30MBayer 04 Leverkusen
2024-12-20€30MBayer 04 Leverkusen
2025-06-05€30MBayer 04 Leverkusen
2025-12-19€30MBayern Munich
2026-05-27€28MBayern Munich

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
+0.057

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 89% of the 451 Bundesliga players.

€300k€2M€15M€100M€28MSee them in the Explorer →

Defenders, all leagues2,065 players · median €2M

Valued above 95% of the 2,065 defenders.

€20k€200k€2M€20M€28MSee them in the Explorer →

Where Tah 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).