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Luuk de

Jong

CFNetherlands · FC Porto

№ 72522Emerging €636k −0.24

Player dossierLiga Portugal

Luuk deJong

CFCentre-ForwardAttack

Club
FC Porto
League
Liga Portugal
Nationality
Netherlands
Age
35
Height
188 cm
Foot
Right
Valued
28 May 2026

Reading the valuation

The market values Jong at €500k. Model A, which never saw Jong during training, estimates €636k: the market value is 21% below that estimate.

That is a factor of ×1.27. 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 €635k, 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.

▼ −0.24A €636k▼ −0.24B €635k
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
53
Minutes
3,964
Goals
19
Assists
13
Started
44/53
Min / app
75
Cards
7Y 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 Jong…

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 €500k

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EmergingEstablishedEliteWorld Class€2M€10M€30M€100k€1M€100MMarket €500kModel A €636k

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

Luuk de Jong's percentiles among attackers: Goals per 90 80th, Assists per 90 89th, Minutes, two years 81st, Starts 87th, Minutes, last 365 days 7th, European club minutes 88th80thGoals89thAssists81stMinutes87thStarts7thRecent88thEurope

Dashed ring: the attacker median (50th percentile)

Assists per 90

Club assists per 90 minutes in the same window.

0.30 this player0.15 attacker median89th percentile

0.00peer deciles · median line · this player ●0.73

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
€150k
Aug 2008
Peak
€13M
Jul 2012
Model target
€500k
May 2026
Valuations
41
7 club changes
May 2026€500kFC PortoValuation the model is trained to reproduce

May 2026: €500k, FC Porto. Dotted lines mark the €2M, €10M and €30M tier boundaries.

Show as a table
DateMarket valueClub
2008-08-08€150kDe Graafschap Doetinchem
2009-06-22€650kDe Graafschap Doetinchem
2010-01-02€850kFC Twente Enschede
2010-08-01€1.3MFC Twente Enschede
2011-01-17€2.5MFC Twente Enschede
2011-06-15€5.5MFC Twente Enschede
2011-10-21€6.5MFC Twente Enschede
2012-01-05€8MFC Twente Enschede
2012-07-06€12MFC Twente Enschede
2012-07-20€13MBorussia Mönchengladbach
2013-01-13€11MBorussia Mönchengladbach
2013-06-30€10MBorussia Mönchengladbach
2013-11-05€7.5MBorussia Mönchengladbach
2014-07-10€5MBorussia Mönchengladbach
2015-02-16€6MPSV Eindhoven
2015-07-01€8MPSV Eindhoven
2016-02-05€10MPSV Eindhoven
2016-07-15€10MPSV Eindhoven
2017-01-18€9MPSV Eindhoven
2017-06-07€7MPSV Eindhoven
2018-01-17€7MPSV Eindhoven
2018-06-12€8MPSV Eindhoven
2018-12-28€10MPSV Eindhoven
2019-06-12€12MPSV Eindhoven
2019-12-20€12MSevilla FC
2020-04-08€9.5MSevilla FC
2020-10-08€12MSevilla FC
2021-01-05€12MSevilla FC
2021-05-27€10MSevilla FC
2021-10-13€7.5MFC Barcelona
2021-12-30€4MFC Barcelona
2022-06-03€4MFC Barcelona
2022-11-11€4MPSV Eindhoven
2023-06-23€4MPSV Eindhoven
2023-12-15€3.5MPSV Eindhoven
2024-05-31€3.5MPSV Eindhoven
2024-12-17€3MPSV Eindhoven
2025-05-28€2.5MPSV Eindhoven
2025-12-18€1.5MFC Porto
2026-03-19€1MFC Porto
2026-05-28€500kFC Porto

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
−0.241

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

Valued above 20% of the 423 Liga Portugal players.

€20k€200k€2M€20M€500kSee them in the Explorer →

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

Valued above 15% of the 1,583 attackers.

€20k€300k€5M€75M€500kSee them in the Explorer →

Where Jong 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).