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Portrait of Mateus Fernandes

Mateus

Fernandes

CMPortugal · West Ham United

№ 880245World Class €42.3M +0.17

Image: FootyLogos

Player dossierPremier League

MateusFernandes

CMCentral MidfieldMidfield

Club
West Ham United
League
Premier League
Nationality
Portugal
Age
21
Height
180 cm
Foot
Right
Valued
3 Jun 2026

Reading the valuation

The market values Fernandes at €50M. Model A, which never saw Fernandes during training, estimates €42.3M: the market value is 18% above that estimate.

That is a factor of ×1.18. 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 €36.5M, 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.

▲ +0.17A €42.3M▲ +0.32B €36.5M
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
6,528
Goals
8
Assists
9
Started
75/80
Min / app
82
Cards
15Y 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 Fernandes…

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 €50M

Checking API
EmergingEstablishedEliteWorld Class€2M€10M€30M€100k€1M€100MMarket €50MModel A €42.3M

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

Mateus Fernandes's percentiles among midfielders: Goals per 90 59th, Assists per 90 62nd, Minutes, two years 97th, Starts 92nd, Minutes, last 365 days 96th, European club minutes 30th59thGoals62ndAssists97thMinutes92ndStarts96thRecent30thEurope

Dashed ring: the midfielder median (50th percentile)

Minutes, two years

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

6,528 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
Sept 2022
Peak
€50M
Jun 2026
Model target
€50M
Jun 2026
Valuations
13
3 club changes
Jun 2026€50MWest Ham UnitedValuation the model is trained to reproduce

Jun 2026: €50M, West Ham United. Dotted lines mark the €2M, €10M and €30M tier boundaries.

Show as a table
DateMarket valueClub
2022-09-16€500kSporting CP B
2022-11-01€1.5MSporting CP B
2023-06-16€1.5MSporting CP B
2023-12-27€3MGD Estoril Praia
2024-03-08€4MGD Estoril Praia
2024-06-06€8MGD Estoril Praia
2024-10-01€12MSouthampton FC
2024-12-16€15MSouthampton FC
2025-05-30€15MSouthampton FC
2025-10-17€32MWest Ham United
2025-12-09€32MWest Ham United
2026-03-09€35MWest Ham United
2026-06-03€50MWest Ham United

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
+0.168

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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Premier League555 players · median €18M

Valued above 88% of the 555 Premier League players.

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

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

Valued above 97% of the 1,687 midfielders.

€20k€200k€2M€20M€50MSee them in the Explorer →

Where Fernandes 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).