Kiki

Kouyaté

CBMali · Royal Antwerp FC

№ 211637Emerging €849k +0.57

Player dossierPro League

KikiKouyaté

CBCentre-BackDefender

Club: Royal Antwerp FC
League: Pro League
Nationality: Mali
Age: 29
Height: 192 cm
Foot: Right
Valued: 4 Jun 2026

Reading the valuation

The market values Kouyaté at €1.5M. Model A, which never saw Kouyaté during training, estimates €849k: the market value is 77% above that estimate.

That is a factor of ×1.77. 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 €1M, closer to the market here, although it is usually further off (typical miss ×2.07).

A gap describes the model's arithmetic for this player's inputs, not what the player is worth.

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: 35
Minutes: 1,911
Goals: 1
Assists: 0
Started: 21/35
Min / app: 55
Cards: 11Y 0R

Club matches, two years to the valuation date

The Valuation Journey

What moves Model A

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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 €1.5M

Checking API

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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 2,065 defenders

Dashed ring: the defender median (50th percentile)

Goals per 90

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

0.05 this player0.03 defender median62nd percentile

0.00peer deciles · median line · this player ●0.41

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: €25k; Sept 2016
Peak: €6M; Jun 2021
Model target: €1.5M; Jun 2026
Valuations: 24; 4 club changes

Jun 2026€1.5MRoyal Antwerp FCValuation the model is trained to reproduce

Jun 2026: €1.5M, Royal Antwerp FC. Dotted lines mark the €2M, €10M and €30M tier boundaries.

Show as a table

Date	Market value	Club
2016-09-30	€25k	Sporting CP B
2017-06-30	€300k	Sporting CP B
2017-09-08	€350k	Sporting CP B
2018-02-23	€350k	Sporting CP B
2018-06-29	€300k	Sporting CP B
2019-06-03	€1M	ESTAC Troyes
2020-01-06	€1.8M	ESTAC Troyes
2020-04-08	€1.4M	ESTAC Troyes
2020-08-14	€2.2M	ESTAC Troyes
2020-10-15	€3M	FC Metz
2021-01-07	€4M	FC Metz
2021-04-09	€5M	FC Metz
2021-06-04	€6M	FC Metz
2021-12-16	€6M	FC Metz
2022-05-30	€5M	FC Metz
2022-10-28	€3.5M	FC Metz
2023-06-27	€5M	Montpellier HSC
2023-12-18	€5M	Montpellier HSC
2024-06-03	€5M	Montpellier HSC
2024-12-10	€3.5M	Montpellier HSC
2025-06-03	€3M	Montpellier HSC
2025-12-10	€2.5M	Royal Antwerp FC
2026-03-13	€2.2M	Royal Antwerp FC
2026-06-04	€1.5M	Royal Antwerp FC

Audit context group-level, not about this player

Audit group: non-UEFA
Population gap, Model A: +0.093 95% CI +0.063 to +0.124
This player, market vs held-out A: +0.569

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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Pro League350 players · median €1.8M

Valued above 39% of the 350 Pro League players.

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

Valued above 43% of the 2,065 defenders.

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Where Kouyaté 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).