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Portrait of Odilon Kossounou

Odilon

Kossounou

CBCote d'Ivoire · Atalanta BC

№ 644771Elite €8.7M +0.54

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Player dossierSerie A

OdilonKossounou

CBCentre-BackDefender

Club
Atalanta BC
League
Serie A
Nationality
Cote d'Ivoire
Age
25
Height
191 cm
Foot
Right
Valued
29 May 2026

Reading the valuation

The market values Kossounou at €15M. Model A, which never saw Kossounou during training, estimates €8.7M: the market value is 71% above that estimate.

That is a factor of ×1.71. Model A's typical held-out miss is ×1.50 either way, so this gap is larger than its usual error.

Without league and club, Model B estimates €10M, closer to the market here, although it is usually further off (typical miss ×2.07).

A gap describes the model's arithmetic for this player's inputs, not what the player is worth.

▲ +0.54A €8.7M▲ +0.41B €10M
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
55
Minutes
3,344
Goals
1
Assists
2
Started
35/55
Min / app
61
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 Kossounou…

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 €15M

Checking API
EmergingEstablishedEliteWorld Class€2M€10M€30M€100k€1M€100MMarket €15MModel A €8.7M

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

Odilon Kossounou's percentiles among defenders: Goals per 90 46th, Assists per 90 59th, Minutes, two years 59th, Starts 19th, Minutes, last 365 days 57th, European club minutes 96th46thGoals59thAssists59thMinutes19thStarts57thRecent96thEurope

Dashed ring: the defender median (50th percentile)

European club minutes

Share of minutes played in UEFA club competitions.

32% this player0% defender median96th percentile

0%peer deciles · median line · this player ●85%

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
€2.8M
Jun 2019
Peak
€35M
Dec 2023
Model target
€15M
May 2026
Valuations
24
3 club changes
May 2026€15MAtalanta BCValuation the model is trained to reproduce

May 2026: €15M, Atalanta BC. Dotted lines mark the €2M, €10M and €30M tier boundaries.

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DateMarket valueClub
2019-06-28€2.8MHammarby IF
2019-12-13€3MClub Brugge KV
2020-03-30€4.5MClub Brugge KV
2020-04-08€4MClub Brugge KV
2020-10-16€6MClub Brugge KV
2021-01-04€8MClub Brugge KV
2021-03-17€12MClub Brugge KV
2021-06-07€13MClub Brugge KV
2021-10-07€23MBayer 04 Leverkusen
2021-12-22€23MBayer 04 Leverkusen
2022-03-24€20MBayer 04 Leverkusen
2022-06-09€20MBayer 04 Leverkusen
2022-11-09€20MBayer 04 Leverkusen
2023-06-22€18MBayer 04 Leverkusen
2023-10-18€28MBayer 04 Leverkusen
2023-12-14€35MBayer 04 Leverkusen
2024-05-29€35MBayer 04 Leverkusen
2024-10-18€30MAtalanta BC
2024-12-18€30MAtalanta BC
2025-03-25€25MAtalanta BC
2025-06-17€25MAtalanta BC
2025-12-23€22MAtalanta BC
2026-03-24€18MAtalanta BC
2026-05-29€15MAtalanta BC

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
+0.539

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 75% of the 507 Serie A players.

€100k€750k€5M€30M€15MSee them in the Explorer →

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

Valued above 87% of the 2,065 defenders.

€20k€200k€2M€20M€15MSee them in the Explorer →

Where Kossounou 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).