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Ísak

Jóhannesson

CMIceland · 1.FC Köln

№ 579565Established €9.3M −0.15

Player dossierBundesliga

ÍsakJóhannesson

CMCentral MidfieldMidfield

Club
1.FC Köln
League
Bundesliga
Nationality
Iceland
Age
23
Height
184 cm
Foot
Left
Valued
27 May 2026

Reading the valuation

The market values Jóhannesson at €8M. Model A, which never saw Jóhannesson during training, estimates €9.3M: the market value is 14% below that estimate.

That is a factor of ×1.17. 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 €2.1M, 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.

▼ −0.15A €9.3M▲ +1.33B €2.1M
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
33
Minutes
1,981
Goals
2
Assists
4
Started
23/33
Min / app
60
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 Jóhannesson…

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 €8M

Checking API
EmergingEstablishedEliteWorld Class€2M€10M€30M€100k€1M€100MMarket €8MModel A €9.3M

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

Ísak Jóhannesson's percentiles among midfielders: Goals per 90 53rd, Assists per 90 79th, Minutes, two years 36th, Starts 51st, Minutes, last 365 days 64th, European club minutes 30th53rdGoals79thAssists36thMinutes51stStarts64thRecent30thEurope

Dashed ring: the midfielder median (50th percentile)

Assists per 90

Club assists per 90 minutes in the same window.

0.18 this player0.09 midfielder median79th percentile

0.00peer deciles · median line · this player ●0.74

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
€100k
Jun 2019
Peak
€10M
Oct 2025
Model target
€8M
May 2026
Valuations
19
3 club changes
May 2026€8M1.FC KölnValuation the model is trained to reproduce

May 2026: €8M, 1.FC Köln. Dotted lines mark the €2M, €10M and €30M tier boundaries.

Show as a table
DateMarket valueClub
2019-06-28€100kIFK Norrköping
2019-11-20€100kIFK Norrköping
2020-08-05€1MIFK Norrköping
2020-12-10€3MIFK Norrköping
2021-06-09€3.5MIFK Norrköping
2021-10-06€4.5MFC Copenhagen
2021-12-28€4MFC Copenhagen
2022-06-20€4MFC Copenhagen
2022-12-22€3.5MFC Copenhagen
2023-06-26€3MFC Copenhagen
2023-12-15€3.5MFortuna Düsseldorf
2024-06-06€3.5MFortuna Düsseldorf
2024-12-19€5MFortuna Düsseldorf
2025-03-26€7MFortuna Düsseldorf
2025-06-19€7MFortuna Düsseldorf
2025-10-14€10M1.FC Köln
2025-12-19€10M1.FC Köln
2026-03-20€8M1.FC Köln
2026-05-27€8M1.FC Köln

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
−0.153

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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Bundesliga451 players · median €5M

Valued above 60% of the 451 Bundesliga players.

€300k€2M€15M€100M€8MSee them in the Explorer →

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

Valued above 74% of the 1,687 midfielders.

€20k€200k€2M€20M€8MSee them in the Explorer →

Where Jóhannesson 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).