Ruben
Loftus-Cheek
CMEngland · AC Milan
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Player dossierSerie A
RubenLoftus-Cheek
CMCentral MidfieldMidfield
- Club
- AC Milan
- League
- Serie A
- Nationality
- England
- Age
- 30
- Height
- 191 cm
- Foot
- Right
- Valued
- 29 May 2026
Serie AReading the valuation
The market values Loftus-Cheek at €8.5M. Model A, which never saw Loftus-Cheek during training, estimates €8.2M: the market value is 4% above that estimate.
That is a factor of ×1.04. 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 €2.8M, 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.
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Club matches, two years to the valuation date
The Valuation Journey
What moves Model A
Asking the prediction API to explain Model A for Loftus-Cheek…
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 €8.5M
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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 1,687 midfielders
Dashed ring: the midfielder median (50th percentile)
European club minutes
Share of minutes played in UEFA club competitions.
10% this player0% midfielder median71st percentile
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
- Jul 2013
- Peak
- €30M
- Jun 2019
- Model target
- €8.5M
- May 2026
- Valuations
- 30
- 6 club changes
May 2026: €8.5M, AC Milan. Dotted lines mark the €2M, €10M and €30M tier boundaries.
Show as a table
| Date | Market value | Club |
|---|---|---|
| 2013-07-25 | €150k | Chelsea FC U18 |
| 2015-02-12 | €500k | Chelsea FC |
| 2015-07-01 | €2M | Chelsea FC |
| 2016-02-09 | €5M | Chelsea FC |
| 2016-08-01 | €5M | Chelsea FC |
| 2017-02-20 | €5M | Chelsea FC |
| 2017-06-28 | €5M | Chelsea FC |
| 2018-01-02 | €8M | Crystal Palace |
| 2018-05-28 | €15M | Crystal Palace |
| 2018-07-16 | €18M | Chelsea FC |
| 2018-12-19 | €20M | Chelsea FC |
| 2019-03-05 | €25M | Chelsea FC |
| 2019-06-13 | €30M | Chelsea FC |
| 2019-12-10 | €30M | Chelsea FC |
| 2020-04-08 | €24M | Chelsea FC |
| 2020-10-13 | €24M | Fulham FC |
| 2021-03-18 | €20M | Fulham FC |
| 2021-06-08 | €18M | Chelsea FC |
| 2021-12-23 | €20M | Chelsea FC |
| 2022-06-15 | €20M | Chelsea FC |
| 2022-09-15 | €22M | Chelsea FC |
| 2022-11-03 | €25M | Chelsea FC |
| 2023-06-20 | €25M | Chelsea FC |
| 2023-12-20 | €25M | AC Milan |
| 2024-06-05 | €25M | AC Milan |
| 2024-12-18 | €20M | AC Milan |
| 2025-03-25 | €16M | AC Milan |
| 2025-06-17 | €10M | AC Milan |
| 2025-12-23 | €10M | AC Milan |
| 2026-05-29 | €8.5M | AC 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
- +0.041
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 63% of the 507 Serie A players.
See them in the Explorer →Midfielders, all leagues1,687 players · median €2M
Valued above 77% of the 1,687 midfielders.
See them in the Explorer →Where Loftus-Cheek appears
- TerminalSerie A in the Player Explorer
- TerminalSerie A on the League Landscape
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Near this valuation closest observed values: same league, then same position
- RenschRBAS Roma · Serie A€8.5M
- BaldanziAMGenoa CFC · Serie A€8.5M
- FazziniCMACF Fiorentina · Serie A€8.5M
- MandragoraDMACF Fiorentina · Serie A€9M
- MangalaDMOlympique Lyon · midfielders€9M
- PrassLMTSG 1899 Hoffenheim · midfielders€9M
- BrescianiniCMACF Fiorentina · midfielders€9M
- Cristian Cásseres Jr.CMFC Toulouse · midfielders€9M
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).