Nabil
Bentaleb
DMAlgeria · LOSC Lille
Player dossierLigue 1
NabilBentaleb
DMDefensive MidfieldMidfield
- Club
- LOSC Lille
- League
- Ligue 1
- Nationality
- Algeria
- Age
- 31
- Height
- 189 cm
- Foot
- Left
- Valued
- 1 Jun 2026
Ligue 1Reading the valuation
The market values Bentaleb at €4.5M. Model A, which never saw Bentaleb during training, estimates €4.6M: the market value is 3% below that estimate.
That is a factor of ×1.03. 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 €3.3M, 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.
- Apps
- 45
- Minutes
- 2,150
- Goals
- 3
- Assists
- 2
- Started
- 23/45
- Min / app
- 48
- 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 Bentaleb…
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 €4.5M
Checking APIAsking 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
Dashed ring: the midfielder median (50th percentile)
European club minutes
Share of minutes played in UEFA club competitions.
25% this player0% midfielder median92nd 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
- €500k
- Feb 2014
- Peak
- €20M
- Dec 2018
- Model target
- €4.5M
- Jun 2026
- Valuations
- 31
- 6 club changes
Jun 2026: €4.5M, LOSC Lille. Dotted lines mark the €2M, €10M and €30M tier boundaries.
Show as a table
| Date | Market value | Club |
|---|---|---|
| 2014-02-05 | €500k | Tottenham Hotspur |
| 2014-08-12 | €3M | Tottenham Hotspur |
| 2015-02-12 | €6M | Tottenham Hotspur |
| 2015-07-01 | €10M | Tottenham Hotspur |
| 2016-02-09 | €10M | Tottenham Hotspur |
| 2016-08-01 | €9M | Tottenham Hotspur |
| 2017-02-07 | €12M | FC Schalke 04 |
| 2017-03-22 | €18M | FC Schalke 04 |
| 2017-06-19 | €18M | FC Schalke 04 |
| 2017-12-28 | €18M | FC Schalke 04 |
| 2018-04-04 | €16M | FC Schalke 04 |
| 2018-06-05 | €18M | FC Schalke 04 |
| 2018-12-18 | €20M | FC Schalke 04 |
| 2019-06-05 | €13M | FC Schalke 04 |
| 2019-10-02 | €10M | FC Schalke 04 |
| 2019-12-17 | €5M | FC Schalke 04 |
| 2020-04-08 | €4M | Newcastle United |
| 2021-02-10 | €2M | FC Schalke 04 |
| 2021-06-09 | €2M | FC Schalke 04 |
| 2021-10-28 | €1.8M | Without Club |
| 2022-03-23 | €3M | Angers SCO |
| 2022-05-30 | €3.5M | Angers SCO |
| 2022-11-02 | €5M | Angers SCO |
| 2023-03-27 | €7M | Angers SCO |
| 2023-06-27 | €7M | Angers SCO |
| 2023-12-18 | €8M | LOSC Lille |
| 2024-06-03 | €10M | LOSC Lille |
| 2024-12-10 | €8M | LOSC Lille |
| 2025-06-03 | €6M | LOSC Lille |
| 2025-12-15 | €5M | LOSC Lille |
| 2026-06-01 | €4.5M | LOSC Lille |
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
- −0.032
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 →Ligue 1423 players · median €5M
Valued above 44% of the 423 Ligue 1 players.
See them in the Explorer →Midfielders, all leagues1,687 players · median €2M
Valued above 64% of the 1,687 midfielders.
See them in the Explorer →Where Bentaleb appears
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Near this valuation closest observed values: same league, then same position
- Lees-MelouDMParis FC · Ligue 1€4.5M
- GuindoLBStade Brestois 29 · Ligue 1€4.5M
- EbonogCMLe Havre AC · Ligue 1€4.5M
- NnadiDMOlympique Marseille · Ligue 1€4.5M
- LeminaDMGalatasaray · midfielders€4.5M
- FredCMFenerbahce · midfielders€4.5M
- PiotrowskiCMUdinese Calcio · midfielders€4.5M
- Al-MusratiDMHellas Verona · midfielders€4.5M
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).