Maxi
Araújo
LBUruguay · Sporting CP
Player dossierLiga Portugal
MaxiAraújo
LBLeft-BackDefender
- Club
- Sporting CP
- League
- Liga Portugal
- Nationality
- Uruguay
- Age
- 26
- Height
- 176 cm
- Foot
- Left
- Valued
- 28 May 2026
Liga PortugalReading the valuation
The market values Araújo at €35M. Model A, which never saw Araújo during training, estimates €34M: the market value is 3% above 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 €30.6M, 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.
- Apps
- 83
- Minutes
- 6,030
- Goals
- 11
- Assists
- 13
- Started
- 67/83
- Min / app
- 73
- Cards
- 23Y 1R
Club matches, two years to the valuation date
The Valuation Journey
What moves Model A
Asking the prediction API to explain Model A for Araújo…
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 €35M
Checking APIAsking 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
Dashed ring: the defender median (50th percentile)
Goals per 90
Club goals per 90 minutes played in the two years to the valuation date.
0.16 this player0.03 defender median96th percentile
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
- €450k
- Mar 2019
- Peak
- €35M
- May 2026
- Model target
- €35M
- May 2026
- Valuations
- 21
- 3 club changes
May 2026: €35M, Sporting CP. Dotted lines mark the €2M, €10M and €30M tier boundaries.
Show as a table
| Date | Market value | Club |
|---|---|---|
| 2019-03-03 | €450k | Montevideo Wanderers |
| 2020-01-10 | €1M | Puebla FC |
| 2020-04-08 | €900k | Puebla FC |
| 2020-06-27 | €900k | Puebla FC |
| 2020-12-18 | €500k | Puebla FC |
| 2021-04-21 | €800k | Puebla FC |
| 2021-10-15 | €1.5M | Puebla FC |
| 2022-04-11 | €3.5M | Puebla FC |
| 2022-10-31 | €4M | Puebla FC |
| 2023-03-30 | €7M | Deportivo Toluca |
| 2023-06-29 | €8.5M | Deportivo Toluca |
| 2023-12-29 | €8.5M | Deportivo Toluca |
| 2024-03-04 | €7.5M | Deportivo Toluca |
| 2024-06-14 | €5.5M | Deportivo Toluca |
| 2024-07-19 | €7.5M | Deportivo Toluca |
| 2024-10-08 | €12M | Sporting CP |
| 2024-12-19 | €14M | Sporting CP |
| 2025-05-30 | €17M | Sporting CP |
| 2025-12-18 | €22M | Sporting CP |
| 2026-03-19 | €25M | Sporting CP |
| 2026-05-28 | €35M | Sporting CP |
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
- +0.029
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 →Liga Portugal423 players · median €1M
Joint 10th highest observed value among 423 Liga Portugal players.
See them in the Explorer →Defenders, all leagues2,065 players · median €2M
Valued above 96% of the 2,065 defenders.
See them in the Explorer →Where Araújo appears
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Near this valuation closest observed values: same league, then same position
- KiwiorCBFC Porto · Liga Portugal€35M
- MoraAMFC Porto · Liga Portugal€38M
- VarelaDMFC Porto · Liga Portugal€32M
- CostaGKFC Porto · Liga Portugal€40M
- BotmanCBNewcastle United · defenders€35M
- KadıoğluLBBrighton & Hove Albion · defenders€35M
- NdickaCBAS Roma · defenders€35M
- HanckoCBAtlético de Madrid · defenders€35M
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).