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Portrait of Evan Ferguson

Evan

Ferguson

CFIreland · AS Roma

№ 648046Elite €12.9M +0.44

Image: FootyLogos

Player dossierSerie A

EvanFerguson

CFCentre-ForwardAttack

Club
AS Roma
League
Serie A
Nationality
Ireland
Age
21
Height
188 cm
Foot
Right
Valued
29 May 2026

Reading the valuation

The market values Ferguson at €20M. Model A, which never saw Ferguson during training, estimates €12.9M: the market value is 55% above that estimate.

That is a factor of ×1.55. 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 €4.4M, 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.

▲ +0.44A €12.9M▲ +1.50B €4.4M
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
43
Minutes
1,466
Goals
6
Assists
2
Started
16/43
Min / app
34
Cards
1Y 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 Ferguson…

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 €20M

Checking API
EmergingEstablishedEliteWorld Class€2M€10M€30M€100k€1M€100MMarket €20MModel A €12.9M

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 1,583 attackers

Evan Ferguson's percentiles among attackers: Goals per 90 70th, Assists per 90 41st, Minutes, two years 31st, Starts 17th, Minutes, last 365 days 41st, European club minutes 84th70thGoals41stAssists31stMinutes17thStarts41stRecent84thEurope

Dashed ring: the attacker median (50th percentile)

European club minutes

Share of minutes played in UEFA club competitions.

21% this player0% attacker median84th percentile

0%peer deciles · median line · this player ●100%

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
€400k
Oct 2021
Peak
€65M
Oct 2023
Model target
€20M
May 2026
Valuations
16
3 club changes
May 2026€20MAS RomaValuation the model is trained to reproduce

May 2026: €20M, AS Roma. Dotted lines mark the €2M, €10M and €30M tier boundaries.

Show as a table
DateMarket valueClub
2021-10-05€400kBrighton & Hove Albion U23
2022-06-15€600kBrighton & Hove Albion U23
2022-09-15€1MBrighton & Hove Albion
2022-11-03€1MBrighton & Hove Albion
2023-03-16€10MBrighton & Hove Albion
2023-06-20€30MBrighton & Hove Albion
2023-10-09€65MBrighton & Hove Albion
2023-12-19€65MBrighton & Hove Albion
2024-03-14€60MBrighton & Hove Albion
2024-05-27€50MBrighton & Hove Albion
2024-10-01€45MBrighton & Hove Albion
2024-12-16€40MBrighton & Hove Albion
2025-03-18€32MWest Ham United
2025-05-30€25MWest Ham United
2025-12-23€25MAS Roma
2026-05-29€20MAS Roma

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
+0.436

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 82% of the 507 Serie A players.

€100k€750k€5M€30M€20MSee them in the Explorer →

Attackers, all leagues1,583 players · median €2.5M

Valued above 87% of the 1,583 attackers.

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Where Ferguson 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).