Chidozie
Awaziem
CBNigeria · FC Nantes
Player dossierLigue 1
ChidozieAwaziem
CBCentre-BackDefender
- Club
- FC Nantes
- League
- Ligue 1
- Nationality
- Nigeria
- Age
- 29
- Height
- 189 cm
- Foot
- Right
- Valued
- 1 Jun 2026
Ligue 1Reading the valuation
The market values Awaziem at €2.5M. Model A, which never saw Awaziem during training, estimates €3M: the market value is 17% below that estimate.
That is a factor of ×1.20. 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 €2M, 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
- 26
- Minutes
- 2,232
- Goals
- 1
- Assists
- 2
- Started
- 25/26
- Min / app
- 86
- 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 Awaziem…
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 €2.5M
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 2,065 defenders
Dashed ring: the defender median (50th percentile)
Starts
Share of appearances started rather than entered from the bench.
96% this player83% defender median87th 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
- €50k
- Jul 2015
- Peak
- €6M
- Mar 2018
- Model target
- €2.5M
- Jun 2026
- Valuations
- 30
- 14 club changes
Jun 2026: €2.5M, FC Nantes. Dotted lines mark the €2M, €10M and €30M tier boundaries.
Show as a table
| Date | Market value | Club |
|---|---|---|
| 2015-07-31 | €50k | FC Porto B |
| 2016-02-24 | €1M | FC Porto B |
| 2016-07-29 | €2M | FC Porto |
| 2017-06-30 | €1.3M | FC Porto B |
| 2018-01-24 | €4M | FC Nantes |
| 2018-03-20 | €6M | FC Nantes |
| 2018-06-04 | €6M | FC Nantes |
| 2019-01-11 | €5M | FC Porto |
| 2019-03-27 | €3M | Caykur Rizespor |
| 2019-06-04 | €3.5M | Caykur Rizespor |
| 2019-12-20 | €2.5M | CD Leganés |
| 2020-03-05 | €5M | CD Leganés |
| 2020-04-08 | €4M | CD Leganés |
| 2020-07-23 | €6M | FC Porto |
| 2021-01-28 | €5M | Boavista FC |
| 2021-05-21 | €5M | Boavista FC |
| 2021-10-12 | €5M | Alanyaspor |
| 2022-01-04 | €4.3M | Alanyaspor |
| 2022-03-31 | €4.5M | Alanyaspor |
| 2022-06-01 | €4M | Alanyaspor |
| 2022-11-08 | €5M | HNK Hajduk Split |
| 2023-06-06 | €3.5M | HNK Hajduk Split |
| 2023-12-27 | €3M | Boavista FC |
| 2024-06-06 | €3M | Boavista FC |
| 2024-09-26 | €2M | FC Cincinnati |
| 2024-12-12 | €2M | Colorado Rapids |
| 2025-06-05 | €2M | Colorado Rapids |
| 2025-10-10 | €3M | FC Nantes |
| 2025-12-15 | €3M | FC Nantes |
| 2026-06-01 | €2.5M | FC Nantes |
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
- −0.183
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 24% of the 423 Ligue 1 players.
See them in the Explorer →Defenders, all leagues2,065 players · median €2M
Valued above 54% of the 2,065 defenders.
See them in the Explorer →Where Awaziem appears
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Near this valuation closest observed values: same league, then same position
- AubameyangCFOlympique Marseille · Ligue 1€2.5M
- GraditCBRC Lens · Ligue 1€2.5M
- MvogoGKFC Lorient · Ligue 1€2.5M
- TouréDMLe Havre AC · Ligue 1€2.5M
- MainkaCB1.FC Heidenheim 1846 · defenders€2.5M
- CoufalRBTSG 1899 Hoffenheim · defenders€2.5M
- StarkCBSV Werder Bremen · defenders€2.5M
- MataCBOlympique Lyon · defenders€2.5M
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).