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N'Golo

Kanté

DMFrance · Fenerbahce

№ 225083Established €466k +2.15

Player dossierSüper Lig

N'GoloKanté

DMDefensive MidfieldMidfield

Club
Fenerbahce
League
Süper Lig
Nationality
France
Age
35
Height
168 cm
Foot
Right
Valued
21 May 2026

Reading the valuation

The market values Kanté at €4M. Model A, which never saw Kanté during training, estimates €466k: the market value is 758% above that estimate.

That is a factor of ×8.58. 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 €274k, 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.

▲ +2.15A €466k▲ +2.68B €274k
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
16
Minutes
1,310
Goals
2
Assists
0
Started
15/16
Min / app
82
Cards
3Y 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 Kanté…

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 €4M

Checking API
EmergingEstablishedEliteWorld Class€2M€10M€30M€100k€1M€100MMarket €4MModel A €466k

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 1,687 midfielders

N'Golo Kanté's percentiles among midfielders: Goals per 90 68th, Assists per 90 8th, Minutes, two years 21st, Starts 92nd, Minutes, last 365 days 42nd, European club minutes 75th68thGoals8thAssists21stMinutes92ndStarts42ndRecent75thEurope

Dashed ring: the midfielder median (50th percentile)

Starts

Share of appearances started rather than entered from the bench.

94% this player69% midfielder median92nd percentile

7%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
€50k
Mar 2013
Peak
€100M
Dec 2018
Model target
€4M
May 2026
Valuations
36
5 club changes
May 2026€4MFenerbahceValuation the model is trained to reproduce

May 2026: €4M, Fenerbahce. Dotted lines mark the €2M, €10M and €30M tier boundaries.

Show as a table
DateMarket valueClub
2013-03-21€50kUS Boulogne
2013-09-13€400kSM Caen
2014-01-13€700kSM Caen
2014-08-03€1.5MSM Caen
2014-11-20€2.5MSM Caen
2015-01-14€2.5MSM Caen
2015-06-06€4.5MSM Caen
2015-10-14€7MLeicester City
2016-02-09€10MLeicester City
2016-06-01€20MLeicester City
2016-08-01€30MChelsea FC
2017-02-20€40MChelsea FC
2017-06-28€50MChelsea FC
2018-01-02€60MChelsea FC
2018-05-28€60MChelsea FC
2018-07-16€80MChelsea FC
2018-12-19€100MChelsea FC
2019-06-13€100MChelsea FC
2019-12-10€100MChelsea FC
2020-04-08€80MChelsea FC
2020-10-13€70MChelsea FC
2020-12-17€60MChelsea FC
2021-03-18€55MChelsea FC
2021-06-01€55MChelsea FC
2021-12-23€50MChelsea FC
2022-06-15€40MChelsea FC
2022-11-03€30MChelsea FC
2023-03-16€20MChelsea FC
2023-06-20€15MChelsea FC
2023-10-24€12MAl-Ittihad Club
2023-12-15€10MAl-Ittihad Club
2024-06-04€9MAl-Ittihad Club
2024-12-13€7MAl-Ittihad Club
2025-05-27€5MAl-Ittihad Club
2025-12-18€4.5MAl-Ittihad Club
2026-05-21€4MFenerbahce

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
+2.149

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 →

Süper Lig428 players · median €1.2M

Valued above 77% of the 428 Süper Lig players.

€50k€300k€2M€15M€4MSee them in the Explorer →

Midfielders, all leagues1,687 players · median €2M

Valued above 61% of the 1,687 midfielders.

€20k€200k€2M€20M€4MSee them in the Explorer →

Where Kanté 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).