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Manolis

Saliakas

RBGreece · FC St. Pauli

№ 242661Established €1.5M +0.32

Player dossierBundesliga

ManolisSaliakas

RBRight-BackDefender

Club
FC St. Pauli
League
Bundesliga
Nationality
Greece
Age
29
Height
177 cm
Foot
Right
Valued
27 May 2026

Reading the valuation

The market values Saliakas at €2M. Model A, which never saw Saliakas during training, estimates €1.5M: the market value is 38% above that estimate.

That is a factor of ×1.38. 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 €1.1M, 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.

▲ +0.32A €1.5M▲ +0.58B €1.1M
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
51
Minutes
3,680
Goals
3
Assists
6
Started
39/51
Min / app
72
Cards
8Y 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 Saliakas…

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 €2M

Checking API
EmergingEstablishedEliteWorld Class€2M€10M€30M€100k€1M€100MMarket €2MModel A €1.5M

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

Manolis Saliakas's percentiles among defenders: Goals per 90 77th, Assists per 90 88th, Minutes, two years 64th, Starts 38th, Minutes, last 365 days 37th, European club minutes 30th77thGoals88thAssists64thMinutes38thStarts37thRecent30thEurope

Dashed ring: the defender median (50th percentile)

Assists per 90

Club assists per 90 minutes in the same window.

0.15 this player0.04 defender median88th percentile

0.00peer deciles · median line · this player ●0.58

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
€200k
Nov 2014
Peak
€3M
Jun 2025
Model target
€2M
May 2026
Valuations
26
5 club changes
May 2026€2MFC St. PauliValuation the model is trained to reproduce

May 2026: €2M, FC St. Pauli. Dotted lines mark the €2M, €10M and €30M tier boundaries.

Show as a table
DateMarket valueClub
2014-11-11€200kOlympiacos Piraeus
2015-05-10€200kOlympiacos Piraeus
2015-09-27€250kOlympiacos Piraeus
2016-06-21€250kOlympiacos Piraeus
2016-12-30€250kKarmiotissa Pano Polemidion
2017-05-04€250kKarmiotissa Pano Polemidion
2018-04-26€350kAO Chania Kissamikos
2019-06-11€350kAO Chania Kissamikos
2019-12-18€350kPAS Lamia 1964
2020-04-08€300kPAS Lamia 1964
2020-08-04€300kPAS Giannina
2021-02-12€350kPAS Giannina
2021-05-30€500kPAS Giannina
2021-11-01€600kPAS Giannina
2022-02-22€800kPAS Giannina
2022-06-09€1MPAS Giannina
2022-11-30€1MFC St. Pauli
2023-03-31€1.5MFC St. Pauli
2023-06-28€1.5MFC St. Pauli
2023-12-15€1.8MFC St. Pauli
2024-03-22€2MFC St. Pauli
2024-06-06€2.5MFC St. Pauli
2024-12-20€2.8MFC St. Pauli
2025-06-05€3MFC St. Pauli
2025-12-19€2.5MFC St. Pauli
2026-05-27€2MFC St. Pauli

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
+0.320

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 19% of the 451 Bundesliga players.

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

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

Valued above 49% of the 2,065 defenders.

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

Where Saliakas 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).