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Portrait of Henrikh Mkhitaryan

Henrikh

Mkhitaryan

CMArmenia · Inter Milan

№ 55735Established €3.8M −0.24

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Player dossierSerie A

HenrikhMkhitaryan

CMCentral MidfieldMidfield

Club
Inter Milan
League
Serie A
Nationality
Armenia
Age
37
Height
177 cm
Foot
Both
Valued
29 May 2026

Reading the valuation

The market values Mkhitaryan at €3M. Model A, which never saw Mkhitaryan during training, estimates €3.8M: the market value is 22% below that estimate.

That is a factor of ×1.27. 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.

▼ −0.24A €3.8M▲ +0.69B €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
91
Minutes
5,858
Goals
5
Assists
8
Started
68/91
Min / app
64
Cards
15Y 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 Mkhitaryan…

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 €3.8M

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

Henrikh Mkhitaryan's percentiles among midfielders: Goals per 90 47th, Assists per 90 61st, Minutes, two years 94th, Starts 60th, Minutes, last 365 days 76th, European club minutes 91st47thGoals61stAssists94thMinutes60thStarts76thRecent91stEurope

Dashed ring: the midfielder median (50th percentile)

Minutes, two years

Total club minutes in the two-year window: how much the player was used.

5,858 this player2,607 midfielder median94th percentile

451peer deciles · median line · this player ●9,624

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
€600k
Jun 2009
Peak
€37M
Aug 2016
Model target
€3M
May 2026
Valuations
41
7 club changes
May 2026€3MInter MilanValuation the model is trained to reproduce

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

Show as a table
DateMarket valueClub
2009-06-12€600kFC Pyunik Yerevan
2009-09-21€1.2MMetalurg Donetsk
2010-02-18€2.8MMetalurg Donetsk
2010-08-30€4MShakhtar Donetsk
2011-01-02€5MShakhtar Donetsk
2011-07-04€5.5MShakhtar Donetsk
2012-01-05€7MShakhtar Donetsk
2012-07-02€9MShakhtar Donetsk
2012-08-29€12MShakhtar Donetsk
2012-11-21€17MShakhtar Donetsk
2013-06-17€22MShakhtar Donetsk
2013-08-27€26MBorussia Dortmund
2014-07-10€26MBorussia Dortmund
2015-02-04€21MBorussia Dortmund
2015-07-01€18MBorussia Dortmund
2015-10-16€22MBorussia Dortmund
2016-02-15€28MBorussia Dortmund
2016-04-13€30MBorussia Dortmund
2016-08-01€37MManchester United
2017-02-20€37MManchester United
2017-06-28€35MManchester United
2018-01-02€35MManchester United
2018-05-28€35MArsenal FC
2018-12-19€30MArsenal FC
2019-06-13€25MArsenal FC
2019-12-12€25MAS Roma
2020-04-08€20MAS Roma
2020-08-25€20MAS Roma
2020-12-29€20MAS Roma
2021-06-03€15MAS Roma
2021-12-28€10MAS Roma
2022-06-07€8MAS Roma
2022-11-11€6MInter Milan
2023-06-15€6MInter Milan
2023-12-20€6MInter Milan
2024-06-05€6MInter Milan
2024-12-18€5MInter Milan
2025-03-25€4MInter Milan
2025-06-17€4MInter Milan
2025-12-23€3.5MInter Milan
2026-05-29€3MInter Milan

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
−0.242

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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Serie A507 players · median €5.5M

Valued above 29% of the 507 Serie A players.

€100k€750k€5M€30M€3MSee them in the Explorer →

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

Valued above 56% of the 1,687 midfielders.

€20k€200k€2M€20M€3MSee them in the Explorer →

Where Mkhitaryan 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).