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Portrait of Junior Adamu

Junior

Adamu

CFAustria · Celtic FC

№ 452477Established €3.3M −0.08

Image: FootyLogos

Player dossierPremiership

JuniorAdamu

CFCentre-ForwardAttack

Club
Celtic FC
League
Premiership
Nationality
Austria
Age
24
Height
183 cm
Foot
Right
Valued
20 May 2026

Reading the valuation

The market values Adamu at €3M. Model A, which never saw Adamu during training, estimates €3.3M: the market value is 8% below that estimate.

That is a factor of ×1.08. 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 €4.2M, 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.

▼ −0.08A €3.3M▼ −0.34B €4.2M
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
51
Minutes
2,863
Goals
7
Assists
4
Started
37/51
Min / app
56
Cards
6Y 1R

Club matches, two years to the valuation date

The Valuation Journey

What moves Model A

Asking the prediction API to explain Model A for Adamu…

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 €3.3M

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

Junior Adamu's percentiles among attackers: Goals per 90 42nd, Assists per 90 42nd, Minutes, two years 64th, Starts 72nd, Minutes, last 365 days 46th, European club minutes 82nd42ndGoals42ndAssists64thMinutes72ndStarts46thRecent82ndEurope

Dashed ring: the attacker median (50th percentile)

European club minutes

Share of minutes played in UEFA club competitions.

19% this player0% attacker median82nd percentile

0%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
€100k
Feb 2019
Peak
€8M
Nov 2022
Model target
€3M
May 2026
Valuations
23
5 club changes
May 2026€3MCeltic FCValuation the model is trained to reproduce

May 2026: €3M, Celtic FC. Dotted lines mark the €2M, €10M and €30M tier boundaries.

Show as a table
DateMarket valueClub
2019-02-01€100kFC Liefering
2019-04-15€250kFC Liefering
2019-06-01€400kFC Liefering
2019-12-03€1MFC Liefering
2020-04-08€900kFC Liefering
2020-07-31€1.5MFC Liefering
2020-12-21€2MRed Bull Salzburg
2021-06-23€2MFC St. Gallen 1879
2021-09-06€3MRed Bull Salzburg
2021-12-16€4MRed Bull Salzburg
2022-03-11€6MRed Bull Salzburg
2022-05-27€6MRed Bull Salzburg
2022-11-10€8MRed Bull Salzburg
2023-06-12€8MRed Bull Salzburg
2023-12-14€8MSC Freiburg
2024-03-27€5MSC Freiburg
2024-05-29€4MSC Freiburg
2024-10-09€6MSC Freiburg
2024-12-20€6MSC Freiburg
2025-06-05€5MSC Freiburg
2025-12-19€5MSC Freiburg
2026-03-05€4MCeltic FC
2026-05-20€3MCeltic 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
−0.081

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 →

Premiership311 players · median €400k

Valued above 89% of the 311 Premiership players.

€20k€150k€1M€7.5M€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 →

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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).