Azor
Matusiwa
DMNetherlands · Ipswich Town
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Player dossierPremier League
AzorMatusiwa
DMDefensive MidfieldMidfield
- Club
- Ipswich Town
- League
- Premier League
- Nationality
- Netherlands
- Age
- 27
- Height
- 173 cm
- Foot
- Right
- Valued
- 3 Dec 2025
Premier LeagueReading the valuation
The market values Matusiwa at €11M. Model A, which never saw Matusiwa during training, estimates €5.5M: the market value is 99% above that estimate.
That is a factor of ×1.99. 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 €2.1M, 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.
- Apps
- 47
- Minutes
- 3,337
- Goals
- 2
- Assists
- 4
- Started
- 37/47
- Min / app
- 71
- 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 Matusiwa…
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 €11M
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)
Starts
Share of appearances started rather than entered from the bench.
79% this player69% midfielder median68th 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
- €25k
- Nov 2016
- Peak
- €13M
- Mar 2024
- Model target
- €11M
- Dec 2025
- Valuations
- 27
- 6 club changes
Dec 2025: €11M, Ipswich Town. Dotted lines mark the €2M, €10M and €30M tier boundaries.
Show as a table
| Date | Market value | Club |
|---|---|---|
| 2016-11-21 | €25k | Ajax Amsterdam U19 |
| 2017-02-02 | €50k | Ajax Amsterdam U19 |
| 2017-06-21 | €75k | Ajax Amsterdam U19 |
| 2018-03-01 | €100k | Ajax Amsterdam U21 |
| 2018-06-29 | €150k | Ajax Amsterdam U21 |
| 2019-03-13 | €550k | De Graafschap Doetinchem |
| 2019-06-12 | €1M | De Graafschap Doetinchem |
| 2019-12-16 | €1M | FC Groningen |
| 2020-04-08 | €900k | FC Groningen |
| 2020-08-12 | €3M | FC Groningen |
| 2020-10-14 | €3.5M | FC Groningen |
| 2021-01-06 | €5M | FC Groningen |
| 2021-05-19 | €5M | FC Groningen |
| 2021-12-16 | €5M | Stade Reims |
| 2022-03-23 | €6M | Stade Reims |
| 2022-05-30 | €7M | Stade Reims |
| 2022-11-02 | €6M | Stade Reims |
| 2023-06-27 | €7.5M | Stade Reims |
| 2023-10-16 | €9M | Stade Reims |
| 2023-12-18 | €10M | Stade Reims |
| 2024-03-19 | €13M | Stade Rennais FC |
| 2024-06-03 | €12M | Stade Rennais FC |
| 2024-12-10 | €12M | Stade Rennais FC |
| 2025-03-24 | €10M | Stade Rennais FC |
| 2025-06-03 | €8M | Stade Rennais FC |
| 2025-10-06 | €11M | Ipswich Town |
| 2025-12-03 | €11M | Ipswich Town |
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
- +0.686
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 35% of the 555 Premier League players.
See them in the Explorer →Midfielders, all leagues1,687 players · median €2M
Valued above 81% of the 1,687 midfielders.
See them in the Explorer →Where Matusiwa appears
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Near this valuation closest observed values: same league, then same position
- CookCMAFC Bournemouth · Premier League€11M
- MartínezGKAston Villa · Premier League€12M
- AkéCBManchester City · Premier League€12M
- StonesCBManchester City · Premier League€12M
- ZafeirisCMPAOK Thessaloniki · midfielders€11M
- MuciAMTrabzonspor · midfielders€11M
- SteijnAMFeyenoord Rotterdam · midfielders€11M
- IsaqueAMShakhtar Donetsk · midfielders€11M
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).