Malick
Fofana
LWBelgium · Olympique Lyon
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Player dossierLigue 1
MalickFofana
LWLeft WingerAttack
- Club
- Olympique Lyon
- League
- Ligue 1
- Nationality
- Belgium
- Age
- 21
- Height
- 169 cm
- Foot
- Right
- Valued
- 1 Jun 2026
Ligue 1Reading the valuation
The market values Fofana at €30M. Model A, which never saw Fofana during training, estimates €20.4M: the market value is 47% above that estimate.
That is a factor of ×1.47. 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 €20.3M, 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.
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- Minutes
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- Goals
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- Assists
- 7
- Started
- 32/55
- Min / app
- 55
- Cards
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Club matches, two years to the valuation date
The Valuation Journey
What moves Model A
Asking the prediction API to explain Model A for Fofana…
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 €30M
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)
European club minutes
Share of minutes played in UEFA club competitions.
23% this player0% 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
- €400k
- Jul 2022
- Peak
- €30M
- Jun 2025
- Model target
- €30M
- Jun 2026
- Valuations
- 13
- 1 club change
Jun 2026: €30M, Olympique Lyon. Dotted lines mark the €2M, €10M and €30M tier boundaries.
Show as a table
| Date | Market value | Club |
|---|---|---|
| 2022-07-20 | €400k | KAA Gent |
| 2022-09-07 | €750k | KAA Gent |
| 2022-11-04 | €750k | KAA Gent |
| 2023-03-22 | €2M | KAA Gent |
| 2023-06-09 | €2.8M | KAA Gent |
| 2023-10-23 | €6M | KAA Gent |
| 2023-12-19 | €8M | KAA Gent |
| 2024-03-19 | €12M | Olympique Lyon |
| 2024-06-03 | €15M | Olympique Lyon |
| 2024-12-10 | €25M | Olympique Lyon |
| 2025-06-03 | €30M | Olympique Lyon |
| 2025-12-15 | €30M | Olympique Lyon |
| 2026-06-01 | €30M | Olympique Lyon |
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
- +0.388
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 →Ligue 1423 players · median €5M
Valued above 92% of the 423 Ligue 1 players.
See them in the Explorer →Attackers, all leagues1,583 players · median €2.5M
Valued above 92% of the 1,583 attackers.
See them in the Explorer →Where Fofana appears
- TerminalLigue 1 in the Player Explorer
- TerminalLigue 1 on the League Landscape
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Near this valuation closest observed values: same league, then same position
- SafonovGKParis Saint-Germain · Ligue 1€30M
- RuizCMParis Saint-Germain · Ligue 1€30M
- RamosCFParis Saint-Germain · Ligue 1€30M
- MortonDMOlympique Lyon · Ligue 1€30M
- BowenRWWest Ham United · attackers€30M
- BurkardtCFEintracht Frankfurt · attackers€30M
- Hudson-OdoiLWNottingham Forest · attackers€30M
- MatetaCFCrystal Palace · attackers€30M
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).