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Portrait of João Gomes

João

Gomes

CMBrazil · Wolverhampton Wanderers

№ 735570World Class €26.4M +0.42

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Player dossierPremier League

JoãoGomes

CMCentral MidfieldMidfield

Club
Wolverhampton Wanderers
League
Premier League
Nationality
Brazil
Age
25
Height
176 cm
Foot
Right
Valued
3 Jun 2026

Reading the valuation

The market values Gomes at €40M. Model A, which never saw Gomes during training, estimates €26.4M: the market value is 52% above that estimate.

That is a factor of ×1.52. 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 €15M, 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.

▲ +0.42A €26.4M▲ +0.98B €15M
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
80
Minutes
6,433
Goals
5
Assists
5
Started
74/80
Min / app
80
Cards
24Y 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 Gomes…

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 €40M

Checking API
EmergingEstablishedEliteWorld Class€2M€10M€30M€100k€1M€100MMarket €40MModel A €26.4M

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

João Gomes's percentiles among midfielders: Goals per 90 44th, Assists per 90 39th, Minutes, two years 97th, Starts 90th, Minutes, last 365 days 94th, European club minutes 30th44thGoals39thAssists97thMinutes90thStarts94thRecent30thEurope

Dashed ring: the midfielder median (50th percentile)

Minutes, two years

Total club minutes in the two-year window: how much the player was used.

6,433 this player2,607 midfielder median97th percentile

451peer deciles · median line · this player ●9,624

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
€500k
Feb 2021
Peak
€40M
Oct 2024
Model target
€40M
Jun 2026
Valuations
17
2 club changes
Jun 2026€40MWolverhampton WanderersValuation the model is trained to reproduce

Jun 2026: €40M, Wolverhampton Wanderers. Dotted lines mark the €2M, €10M and €30M tier boundaries.

Show as a table
DateMarket valueClub
2021-02-09€500kCR Flamengo U20
2021-05-28€3.5MCR Flamengo
2021-12-17€5MCR Flamengo
2022-04-06€9MCR Flamengo
2022-08-19€10MCR Flamengo
2022-11-14€15MCR Flamengo
2023-06-20€18MWolverhampton Wanderers
2023-10-09€22MWolverhampton Wanderers
2023-12-19€22MWolverhampton Wanderers
2024-03-14€28MWolverhampton Wanderers
2024-05-27€35MWolverhampton Wanderers
2024-10-01€40MWolverhampton Wanderers
2024-12-16€40MWolverhampton Wanderers
2025-05-30€40MWolverhampton Wanderers
2025-12-09€40MWolverhampton Wanderers
2026-03-09€35MWolverhampton Wanderers
2026-06-03€40MWolverhampton Wanderers

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
+0.417

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 83% of the 555 Premier League players.

€150k€1M€7.5M€50M€40MSee them in the Explorer →

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

Valued above 96% of the 1,687 midfielders.

€20k€200k€2M€20M€40MSee them in the Explorer →

Where Gomes 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).