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Timothée

Pembélé

RBFrance · Le Havre AC

№ 538998Emerging €1.9M −0.03

Player dossierLigue 1

TimothéePembélé

RBRight-BackDefender

Club
Le Havre AC
League
Ligue 1
Nationality
France
Age
23
Height
183 cm
Foot
Right
Valued
1 Jun 2026

Reading the valuation

The market values Pembélé at €1.8M. Model A, which never saw Pembélé during training, estimates €1.9M: the market value is 3% below that estimate.

That is a factor of ×1.03. 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 €1.5M, 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.

▼ −0.03A €1.9M▲ +0.19B €1.5M
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
34
Minutes
1,482
Goals
1
Assists
0
Started
14/34
Min / app
44
Cards
5Y 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 Pembélé…

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 €1.8M

Checking API
EmergingEstablishedEliteWorld Class€2M€10M€30M€100k€1M€100MMarket €1.8MModel A €1.9M

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

Timothée Pembélé's percentiles among defenders: Goals per 90 70th, Assists per 90 17th, Minutes, two years 22nd, Starts 3rd, Minutes, last 365 days 9th, European club minutes 30th70thGoals17thAssists22ndMinutes3rdStarts9thRecent30thEurope

Dashed ring: the defender median (50th percentile)

Goals per 90

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

0.06 this player0.03 defender median70th percentile

0.00peer deciles · median line · this player ●0.41

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
€500k
Aug 2020
Peak
€7M
Oct 2021
Model target
€1.8M
Jun 2026
Valuations
16
6 club changes
Jun 2026€1.8MLe Havre ACValuation the model is trained to reproduce

Jun 2026: €1.8M, Le Havre AC. Dotted lines mark the €2M, €10M and €30M tier boundaries.

Show as a table
DateMarket valueClub
2020-08-03€500kParis Saint-Germain
2020-10-15€500kParis Saint-Germain
2021-01-07€4MParis Saint-Germain
2021-06-04€4MParis Saint-Germain
2021-10-08€7MFC Girondins Bordeaux
2021-12-16€7MFC Girondins Bordeaux
2022-05-30€6MFC Girondins Bordeaux
2022-11-02€5MParis Saint-Germain
2023-06-27€5MParis Saint-Germain
2023-12-21€4MSunderland AFC
2024-03-07€3MSunderland AFC
2024-05-24€2.5MSunderland AFC
2024-12-10€2.5MLe Havre AC
2025-06-03€2.5MLe Havre AC
2025-12-09€2MSunderland AFC
2026-06-01€1.8MLe Havre AC

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
−0.032

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 16% of the 423 Ligue 1 players.

€100k€750k€5M€30M€1.8MSee them in the Explorer →

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

Valued above 48% of the 2,065 defenders.

€20k€200k€2M€20M€1.8MSee them in the Explorer →

Where Pembélé 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).