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Ricardo

Mangas

LBPortugal · Sporting CP

№ 314944Established €7M −1.26

Player dossierLiga Portugal

RicardoMangas

LBLeft-BackDefender

Club
Sporting CP
League
Liga Portugal
Nationality
Portugal
Age
28
Height
179 cm
Foot
Left
Valued
28 May 2026

Reading the valuation

The market values Mangas at €2M. Model A, which never saw Mangas during training, estimates €7M: the market value is 72% below that estimate.

That is a factor of ×3.51. 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 €4.3M, 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.

▼ −1.26A €7M▼ −0.77B €4.3M
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
47
Minutes
2,587
Goals
9
Assists
3
Started
29/47
Min / app
55
Cards
7Y 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 Mangas…

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 €7M

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

Ricardo Mangas's percentiles among defenders: Goals per 90 100th, Assists per 90 78th, Minutes, two years 44th, Starts 17th, Minutes, last 365 days 36th, European club minutes 86th100thGoals78thAssists44thMinutes17thStarts36thRecent86thEurope

Dashed ring: the defender median (50th percentile)

Goals per 90

Club goals per 90 minutes played in the two years to the valuation date.

0.31 this player0.03 defender median100th percentile

0.00peer deciles · median line · this player ●0.41

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 2020
Peak
€4M
Jun 2024
Model target
€2M
May 2026
Valuations
17
6 club changes
May 2026€2MSporting CPValuation the model is trained to reproduce

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

Show as a table
DateMarket valueClub
2020-02-11€500kDesportivo Aves (- 2020)
2020-04-08€450kDesportivo Aves (- 2020)
2020-08-17€800kBoavista FC
2021-01-28€800kBoavista FC
2021-05-21€1MBoavista FC
2021-10-08€1.5MFC Girondins Bordeaux
2021-12-16€1.8MFC Girondins Bordeaux
2022-05-30€1.5MFC Girondins Bordeaux
2022-11-01€1MBoavista FC
2023-06-16€1.5MBoavista FC
2023-12-27€2MVitória Guimarães SC
2024-03-08€3MVitória Guimarães SC
2024-06-06€4MVitória Guimarães SC
2024-12-12€3MSpartak Moscow
2025-06-04€2.5MSpartak Moscow
2025-12-18€2.5MSporting CP
2026-05-28€2MSporting CP

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
−1.256

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

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Liga Portugal423 players · median €1M

Valued above 61% of the 423 Liga Portugal players.

€20k€200k€2M€20M€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 →

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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).