Moussa
Niakhaté
CBSenegal · Olympique Lyon
Player dossierLigue 1
MoussaNiakhaté
CBCentre-BackDefender
- Club
- Olympique Lyon
- League
- Ligue 1
- Nationality
- Senegal
- Age
- 30
- Height
- 190 cm
- Foot
- Left
- Valued
- 1 Jun 2026
Ligue 1Reading the valuation
The market values Niakhaté at €15M. Model A, which never saw Niakhaté during training, estimates €11.3M: the market value is 33% above that estimate.
That is a factor of ×1.33. 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 €12.7M, 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.
- Apps
- 81
- Minutes
- 6,974
- Goals
- 1
- Assists
- 2
- Started
- 77/81
- Min / app
- 86
- 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 Niakhaté…
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 €15M
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 2,065 defenders
Dashed ring: the defender median (50th percentile)
Minutes, two years
Total club minutes in the two-year window: how much the player was used.
6,974 this player2,860 defender median98th 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
- Apr 2015
- Peak
- €18M
- Dec 2021
- Model target
- €15M
- Jun 2026
- Valuations
- 29
- 4 club changes
Jun 2026: €15M, Olympique Lyon. Dotted lines mark the €2M, €10M and €30M tier boundaries.
Show as a table
| Date | Market value | Club |
|---|---|---|
| 2015-04-05 | €150k | Valenciennes FC |
| 2015-06-06 | €300k | Valenciennes FC |
| 2016-02-04 | €300k | Valenciennes FC |
| 2016-07-13 | €300k | Valenciennes FC |
| 2017-03-20 | €400k | Valenciennes FC |
| 2017-06-15 | €400k | Valenciennes FC |
| 2018-01-24 | €3M | FC Metz |
| 2018-06-04 | €5M | FC Metz |
| 2018-08-22 | €6M | 1.FSV Mainz 05 |
| 2018-12-18 | €10M | 1.FSV Mainz 05 |
| 2019-06-05 | €14M | 1.FSV Mainz 05 |
| 2019-12-17 | €14M | 1.FSV Mainz 05 |
| 2020-04-08 | €11M | 1.FSV Mainz 05 |
| 2020-11-26 | €9M | 1.FSV Mainz 05 |
| 2021-02-10 | €7.5M | 1.FSV Mainz 05 |
| 2021-03-31 | €10M | 1.FSV Mainz 05 |
| 2021-06-09 | €15M | 1.FSV Mainz 05 |
| 2021-12-22 | €18M | 1.FSV Mainz 05 |
| 2022-06-09 | €18M | 1.FSV Mainz 05 |
| 2022-11-03 | €18M | Nottingham Forest |
| 2023-06-20 | €18M | Nottingham Forest |
| 2023-12-19 | €16M | Nottingham Forest |
| 2024-05-27 | €16M | Nottingham Forest |
| 2024-10-07 | €15M | Olympique Lyon |
| 2024-12-10 | €15M | Olympique Lyon |
| 2025-06-03 | €15M | Olympique Lyon |
| 2025-12-15 | €15M | Olympique Lyon |
| 2026-03-27 | €18M | Olympique Lyon |
| 2026-06-01 | €15M | Olympique Lyon |
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
- +0.283
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 76% of the 423 Ligue 1 players.
See them in the Explorer →Defenders, all leagues2,065 players · median €2M
Valued above 87% of the 2,065 defenders.
See them in the Explorer →Where Niakhaté appears
- TerminalLigue 1 in the Player Explorer
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Near this valuation closest observed values: same league, then same position
- HøjbjergDMOlympique Marseille · Ligue 1€15M
- EmboloCFStade Rennais FC · Ligue 1€15M
- AguerdCBOlympique Marseille · Ligue 1€15M
- TezeRBAS Monaco · Ligue 1€15M
- DijkCBLiverpool FC · defenders€15M
- ManciniCBAS Roma · defenders€15M
- ChabotCBVfB Stuttgart · defenders€15M
- BoscagliCBBrighton & Hove Albion · defenders€15M
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).