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Ignatius

Ganago

CFCameroon · FC Nantes

№ 531949Established €2.1M −0.04

Player dossierLigue 1

IgnatiusGanago

CFCentre-ForwardAttack

Club
FC Nantes
League
Ligue 1
Nationality
Cameroon
Age
27
Height
176 cm
Foot
Right
Valued
1 Jun 2026

Reading the valuation

The market values Ganago at €2M. Model A, which never saw Ganago during training, estimates €2.1M: the market value is 4% below that estimate.

That is a factor of ×1.04. 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 €1.1M, 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.

▼ −0.04A €2.1M▲ +0.62B €1.1M
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
24
Minutes
1,074
Goals
3
Assists
1
Started
11/24
Min / app
45
Cards
2Y 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 Ganago…

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 €2M

Checking API
EmergingEstablishedEliteWorld Class€2M€10M€30M€100k€1M€100MMarket €2MModel A €2.1M

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

Ignatius Ganago's percentiles among attackers: Goals per 90 48th, Assists per 90 25th, Minutes, two years 21st, Starts 28th, Minutes, last 365 days 31st, European club minutes 28th48thGoals25thAssists21stMinutes28thStarts31stRecent28thEurope

Dashed ring: the attacker median (50th percentile)

Goals per 90

Club goals per 90 minutes played in the two years to the valuation date.

0.25 this player0.26 attacker median48th percentile

0.00peer deciles · median line · this player ●1.17

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
€2.5M
Sept 2018
Peak
€8M
Jan 2021
Model target
€2M
Jun 2026
Valuations
20
4 club changes
Jun 2026€2MFC NantesValuation the model is trained to reproduce

Jun 2026: €2M, FC Nantes. Dotted lines mark the €2M, €10M and €30M tier boundaries.

Show as a table
DateMarket valueClub
2018-09-06€2.5MOGC Nice
2018-12-17€2.5MOGC Nice
2019-06-03€3MOGC Nice
2019-12-19€4MOGC Nice
2020-04-08€3.6MOGC Nice
2020-10-15€7MRC Lens
2021-01-07€8MRC Lens
2021-06-04€8MRC Lens
2021-12-16€7MRC Lens
2022-03-23€6MRC Lens
2022-05-30€5MRC Lens
2022-11-02€4MFC Nantes
2023-06-27€4MFC Nantes
2023-12-18€3.5MFC Nantes
2024-06-03€3MFC Nantes
2024-10-07€2MFC Nantes
2024-12-10€1.8MFC Nantes
2025-06-05€2MNew England Revolution
2025-12-11€2MNew England Revolution
2026-06-01€2MFC 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
−0.044

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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Ligue 1423 players · median €5M

Valued above 20% of the 423 Ligue 1 players.

€100k€750k€5M€30M€2MSee them in the Explorer →

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

Valued above 44% of the 1,583 attackers.

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Where Ganago 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).