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Josh

Laurent

CMEngland · Burnley FC

№ 314241Emerging €2.4M −0.45

Player dossierPremier League

JoshLaurent

CMCentral MidfieldMidfield

Club
Burnley FC
League
Premier League
Nationality
England
Age
31
Height
188 cm
Foot
Right
Valued
3 Jun 2026

Reading the valuation

The market values Laurent at €1.5M. Model A, which never saw Laurent during training, estimates €2.4M: the market value is 36% below that estimate.

That is a factor of ×1.57. 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 €931k, 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.

▼ −0.45A €2.4M▲ +0.48B €931k
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
36
Minutes
2,005
Goals
2
Assists
0
Started
21/36
Min / app
56
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 Laurent…

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
EmergingEstablishedEliteWorld Class€2M€10M€30M€100k€1M€100MMarket €1.5MModel A €2.4M

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

Josh Laurent's percentiles among midfielders: Goals per 90 53rd, Assists per 90 8th, Minutes, two years 36th, Starts 32nd, Minutes, last 365 days 65th, European club minutes 30th53rdGoals8thAssists36thMinutes32ndStarts65thRecent30thEurope

Dashed ring: the midfielder median (50th percentile)

Minutes, last 365 days

Club minutes in the final year of the window: recent involvement, or the absence of it.

2,005 this player1,541 midfielder median65th percentile

0peer deciles · median line · this player ●4,800

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
Aug 2016
Peak
€2.2M
May 2022
Model target
€1.5M
Jun 2026
Valuations
18
4 club changes
Jun 2026€1.5MBurnley FCValuation the model is trained to reproduce

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

Show as a table
DateMarket valueClub
2016-08-05€50kHartlepool United
2017-02-27€100kWigan Athletic
2020-10-15€600kReading FC
2020-12-22€1.2MReading FC
2021-03-10€1.5MReading FC
2021-06-30€2MReading FC
2021-11-24€2MReading FC
2022-05-13€2.2MReading FC
2022-10-27€2.2MStoke City
2023-06-01€2MStoke City
2023-12-21€2.2MStoke City
2024-05-24€2.2MStoke City
2024-09-24€2MBurnley FC
2024-12-30€1.8MBurnley FC
2025-05-27€1.8MBurnley FC
2025-10-17€2MBurnley FC
2025-12-09€2MBurnley FC
2026-06-03€1.5MBurnley FC

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
−0.450

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 →

Premier League555 players · median €18M

Valued above 7% of the 555 Premier League players.

€150k€1M€7.5M€50M€1.5MSee them in the Explorer →

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

Valued above 39% of the 1,687 midfielders.

€20k€200k€2M€20M€1.5MSee them in the Explorer →

Where Laurent 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).