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Patrick van

Aanholt

LBNetherlands · Sparta Rotterdam

№ 52119Emerging €118k +0.75

Player dossierEredivisie

Patrick vanAanholt

LBLeft-BackDefender

Club
Sparta Rotterdam
League
Eredivisie
Nationality
Netherlands
Age
35
Height
176 cm
Foot
Left
Valued
28 May 2026

Reading the valuation

The market values Aanholt at €250k. Model A, which never saw Aanholt during training, estimates €118k: the market value is 113% above that estimate.

That is a factor of ×2.13. 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 €167k, closer to the market here, although it is usually further off (typical miss ×2.07).

A gap describes the model's arithmetic for this player's inputs, not what the player is worth.

▲ +0.75A €118k▲ +0.40B €167k
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
2,399
Goals
1
Assists
3
Started
29/35
Min / app
69
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 Aanholt…

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 €250k

Checking API
EmergingEstablishedEliteWorld Class€2M€10M€30M€100k€1M€100MMarket €250kModel A €118k

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 2,065 defenders

Patrick van Aanholt's percentiles among defenders: Goals per 90 54th, Assists per 90 80th, Minutes, two years 41st, Starts 51st, Minutes, last 365 days 20th, European club minutes 30th54thGoals80thAssists41stMinutes51stStarts20thRecent30thEurope

Dashed ring: the defender median (50th percentile)

Assists per 90

Club assists per 90 minutes in the same window.

0.11 this player0.04 defender median80th percentile

0.00peer deciles · median line · this player ●0.58

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
Jan 2010
Peak
€12M
Dec 2019
Model target
€250k
May 2026
Valuations
39
7 club changes
May 2026€250kSparta RotterdamValuation the model is trained to reproduce

May 2026: €250k, Sparta Rotterdam. Dotted lines mark the €2M, €10M and €30M tier boundaries.

Show as a table
DateMarket valueClub
2010-01-08€50kChelsea FC
2010-03-29€100kChelsea FC
2010-09-25€1MChelsea FC
2011-08-08€1.5MChelsea FC
2012-07-13€2MVitesse Arnhem
2013-01-12€2.5MVitesse Arnhem
2013-06-04€3MVitesse Arnhem
2014-02-11€3.5MVitesse Arnhem
2014-08-12€3MSunderland AFC
2015-02-12€3MSunderland AFC
2015-07-01€3.5MSunderland AFC
2016-02-09€4.5MSunderland AFC
2016-08-01€6MSunderland AFC
2017-02-20€9MCrystal Palace
2017-06-28€9MCrystal Palace
2018-01-02€9MCrystal Palace
2018-05-28€9MCrystal Palace
2018-12-19€9MCrystal Palace
2019-06-13€10MCrystal Palace
2019-12-10€12MCrystal Palace
2020-04-08€9.5MCrystal Palace
2020-10-13€8MCrystal Palace
2021-03-18€8MCrystal Palace
2021-05-27€7MCrystal Palace
2021-10-12€6.5MGalatasaray
2022-01-04€5MGalatasaray
2022-03-31€4.5MGalatasaray
2022-06-01€4MGalatasaray
2022-10-27€3.2MGalatasaray
2023-06-23€3MPSV Eindhoven
2023-12-15€2.5MPSV Eindhoven
2024-05-31€2MPSV Eindhoven
2024-10-16€1.2MWithout Club
2024-12-17€900kSparta Rotterdam
2025-03-28€600kSparta Rotterdam
2025-05-28€500kSparta Rotterdam
2025-12-02€400kSparta Rotterdam
2026-03-11€300kSparta Rotterdam
2026-05-28€250kSparta Rotterdam

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
+0.754

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 →

Eredivisie425 players · median €1M

Valued above 5% of the 425 Eredivisie players.

€75k€500k€3M€20M€250kSee them in the Explorer →

Defenders, all leagues2,065 players · median €2M

Valued above 7% of the 2,065 defenders.

€20k€200k€2M€20M€250kSee them in the Explorer →

Where Aanholt 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).