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Wilfried

Kanga

CFCote d'Ivoire · KAA Gent

№ 395523Established €4.1M −0.30

Player dossierPro League

WilfriedKanga

CFCentre-ForwardAttack

Club
KAA Gent
League
Pro League
Nationality
Cote d'Ivoire
Age
28
Height
189 cm
Foot
Right
Valued
4 Jun 2026

Reading the valuation

The market values Kanga at €3M. Model A, which never saw Kanga during training, estimates €4.1M: the market value is 26% below that estimate.

That is a factor of ×1.35. 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 €4.7M, 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.

▼ −0.30A €4.1M▼ −0.44B €4.7M
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
35
Minutes
2,751
Goals
12
Assists
4
Started
32/35
Min / app
79
Cards
4Y 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 Kanga…

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 €3M

Checking API
EmergingEstablishedEliteWorld Class€2M€10M€30M€100k€1M€100MMarket €3MModel A €4.1M

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 1,583 attackers

Wilfried Kanga's percentiles among attackers: Goals per 90 75th, Assists per 90 44th, Minutes, two years 62nd, Starts 95th, Minutes, last 365 days 91st, European club minutes 28th75thGoals44thAssists62ndMinutes95thStarts91stRecent28thEurope

Dashed ring: the attacker median (50th percentile)

Starts

Share of appearances started rather than entered from the bench.

91% this player59% attacker median95th percentile

5%peer deciles · median line · this player ●100%

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
€200k
Feb 2017
Peak
€4M
Sept 2022
Model target
€3M
Jun 2026
Valuations
26
8 club changes
Jun 2026€3MKAA GentValuation the model is trained to reproduce

Jun 2026: €3M, KAA Gent. Dotted lines mark the €2M, €10M and €30M tier boundaries.

Show as a table
DateMarket valueClub
2017-02-20€200kUS Créteil-Lusitanos
2017-10-12€200kAngers SCO
2018-01-24€200kAngers SCO
2018-06-04€200kAngers SCO
2018-10-24€1MAngers SCO
2018-12-17€1MAngers SCO
2019-03-07€1.5MAngers SCO
2019-06-03€1.5MAngers SCO
2019-12-19€1MAngers SCO
2020-04-08€900kAngers SCO
2020-12-23€800kKayserispor
2021-03-16€500kKayserispor
2021-05-21€400kKayserispor
2022-01-03€1MBSC Young Boys
2022-06-08€2.2MBSC Young Boys
2022-09-21€4MHertha BSC
2022-11-09€4MHertha BSC
2023-03-29€3MHertha BSC
2023-06-22€3MHertha BSC
2023-12-19€3.5MStandard Liège
2024-06-04€4MStandard Liège
2024-12-30€3.5MCardiff City
2025-06-09€2.5MGNK Dinamo Zagreb
2025-12-10€2.5MKAA Gent
2026-03-13€3MKAA Gent
2026-06-04€3MKAA Gent

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
−0.302

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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Pro League350 players · median €1.8M

Valued above 67% of the 350 Pro League players.

€100k€750k€5M€30M€3MSee them in the Explorer →

Attackers, all leagues1,583 players · median €2.5M

Valued above 52% of the 1,583 attackers.

€20k€300k€5M€75M€3MSee them in the Explorer →

Where Kanga 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).