Liam
Delap
CFEngland · Chelsea FC
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Player dossierPremier League
LiamDelap
CFCentre-ForwardAttack
- Club
- Chelsea FC
- League
- Premier League
- Nationality
- England
- Age
- 23
- Height
- 186 cm
- Foot
- Right
- Valued
- 3 Jun 2026
Reading the valuation
The market values Delap at €28M. Model A, which never saw Delap during training, estimates €28.4M: the market value is 2% below that estimate.
That is a factor of ×1.02. 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 €30.2M, 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
- 86
- Minutes
- 4,569
- Goals
- 15
- Assists
- 7
- Started
- 52/86
- Min / app
- 53
- Cards
- 20Y 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 Delap…
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 €28M
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 1,583 attackers
Dashed ring: the attacker median (50th percentile)
Minutes, two years
Total club minutes in the two-year window: how much the player was used.
4,569 this player2,242 attacker median87th 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
- €1M
- Oct 2020
- Peak
- €40M
- May 2025
- Model target
- €28M
- Jun 2026
- Valuations
- 15
- 5 club changes
Jun 2026: €28M, Chelsea FC. Dotted lines mark the €2M, €10M and €30M tier boundaries.
Show as a table
| Date | Market value | Club |
|---|---|---|
| 2020-10-13 | €1M | Manchester City U23 |
| 2022-06-15 | €1.5M | Manchester City U23 |
| 2022-09-14 | €7M | Stoke City |
| 2022-10-27 | €7M | Stoke City |
| 2023-06-01 | €5M | Manchester City U21 |
| 2023-10-27 | €7M | Hull City |
| 2023-12-21 | €8M | Hull City |
| 2024-05-24 | €8M | Hull City |
| 2024-10-01 | €15M | Ipswich Town |
| 2024-12-16 | €25M | Ipswich Town |
| 2025-03-18 | €35M | Ipswich Town |
| 2025-05-30 | €40M | Ipswich Town |
| 2025-12-09 | €35M | Chelsea FC |
| 2026-03-09 | €32M | Chelsea FC |
| 2026-06-03 | €28M | Chelsea FC |
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
- −0.015
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 →Premier League555 players · median €18M
Valued above 69% of the 555 Premier League players.
See them in the Explorer →Attackers, all leagues1,583 players · median €2.5M
Valued above 91% of the 1,583 attackers.
See them in the Explorer →Where Delap appears
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Near this valuation closest observed values: same league, then same position
- SolankeCFTottenham Hotspur · Premier League€28M
- HendersonGKCrystal Palace · Premier League€28M
- KelleherGKBrentford FC · Premier League€28M
- StachDMLeeds United · Premier League€28M
- PavlidisCFSL Benfica · attackers€28M
- GouiriCFOlympique Marseille · attackers€28M
- CastellanosCFWest Ham United · attackers€28M
- BakwaRWNottingham Forest · attackers€28M
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).