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Portrait of Jens Cajuste

Jens

Cajuste

DMSweden · Ipswich Town

№ 468066Established €19.4M −0.88

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Player dossierPremier League

JensCajuste

DMDefensive MidfieldMidfield

Club
Ipswich Town
League
Premier League
Nationality
Sweden
Age
26
Height
188 cm
Foot
Right
Valued
3 Dec 2025

Reading the valuation

The market values Cajuste at €8M. Model A, which never saw Cajuste during training, estimates €19.4M: the market value is 59% below that estimate.

That is a factor of ×2.42. 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 €2.8M, 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.

▼ −0.88A €19.4M▲ +1.04B €2.8M
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
53
Minutes
3,193
Goals
1
Assists
2
Started
39/53
Min / app
60
Cards
6Y 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 Cajuste…

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 €8M

Checking API
EmergingEstablishedEliteWorld Class€2M€10M€30M€100k€1M€100MMarket €8MModel A €19.4M

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 1,687 midfielders

Jens Cajuste's percentiles among midfielders: Goals per 90 24th, Assists per 90 32nd, Minutes, two years 60th, Starts 58th, Minutes, last 365 days 51st, European club minutes 62nd24thGoals32ndAssists60thMinutes58thStarts51stRecent62ndEurope

Dashed ring: the midfielder median (50th percentile)

European club minutes

Share of minutes played in UEFA club competitions.

3% this player0% midfielder median62nd percentile

0%peer deciles · median line · this player ●85%

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
Dec 2016
Peak
€12M
Dec 2024
Model target
€8M
Dec 2025
Valuations
23
4 club changes
Dec 2025€8MIpswich TownValuation the model is trained to reproduce

Dec 2025: €8M, Ipswich Town. Dotted lines mark the €2M, €10M and €30M tier boundaries.

Show as a table
DateMarket valueClub
2016-12-15€50kÖrgryte IS
2017-07-14€25kÖrgryte IS
2017-11-20€50kÖrgryte IS
2018-12-21€100kFC Midtjylland
2019-06-08€100kFC Midtjylland
2019-09-09€300kFC Midtjylland
2019-12-22€500kFC Midtjylland
2020-04-08€450kFC Midtjylland
2020-07-31€1MFC Midtjylland
2020-12-23€3MFC Midtjylland
2021-05-31€5MFC Midtjylland
2021-10-06€7MFC Midtjylland
2021-12-28€5MFC Midtjylland
2022-05-30€5MStade Reims
2022-11-02€4.5MStade Reims
2023-06-27€6MStade Reims
2023-10-11€10MSSC Napoli
2023-12-20€10MSSC Napoli
2024-06-05€10MSSC Napoli
2024-12-16€12MIpswich Town
2025-05-30€12MIpswich Town
2025-10-06€10MIpswich Town
2025-12-03€8MIpswich 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
−0.884

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 27% of the 555 Premier League players.

€150k€1M€7.5M€50M€8MSee them in the Explorer →

Midfielders, all leagues1,687 players · median €2M

Valued above 74% of the 1,687 midfielders.

€20k€200k€2M€20M€8MSee them in the Explorer →

Where Cajuste 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).