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Portrait of Kuryu Matsuki

Kuryu

Matsuki

AMJapan · Southampton FC

№ 902021Established €3.9M −0.49

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Player dossierPremier League

KuryuMatsuki

AMAttacking MidfieldMidfield

Club
Southampton FC
League
Premier League
Nationality
Japan
Age
22
Height
180 cm
Foot
Left
Valued
3 Dec 2025

Reading the valuation

The market values Matsuki at €2.4M. Model A, which never saw Matsuki during training, estimates €3.9M: the market value is 39% below that estimate.

That is a factor of ×1.64. 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 €1.1M, 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.

▼ −0.49A €3.9M▲ +0.78B €1.1M
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
28
Minutes
1,020
Goals
2
Assists
4
Started
10/28
Min / app
36
Cards
5Y 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 Matsuki…

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 €2.4M

Checking API
EmergingEstablishedEliteWorld Class€2M€10M€30M€100k€1M€100MMarket €2.4MModel A €3.9M

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 1,687 midfielders

Kuryu Matsuki's percentiles among midfielders: Goals per 90 78th, Assists per 90 98th, Minutes, two years 14th, Starts 8th, Minutes, last 365 days 17th, European club minutes 30th78thGoals98thAssists14thMinutes8thStarts17thRecent30thEurope

Dashed ring: the midfielder median (50th percentile)

Assists per 90

Club assists per 90 minutes in the same window.

0.35 this player0.09 midfielder median98th percentile

0.00peer deciles · median line · this player ●0.74

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
Jun 2022
Peak
€2.5M
Mar 2025
Model target
€2.4M
Dec 2025
Valuations
10
2 club changes
Dec 2025€2.4MSouthampton FCValuation the model is trained to reproduce

Dec 2025: €2.4M, Southampton FC. Dotted lines mark the €2M, €10M and €30M tier boundaries.

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DateMarket valueClub
2022-06-28€400kFC Tokyo
2023-01-06€700kFC Tokyo
2023-06-28€850kFC Tokyo
2024-02-22€1MFC Tokyo
2024-06-12€1.5MFC Tokyo
2024-10-04€1.5MGöztepe
2024-12-23€2MGöztepe
2025-03-20€2.5MGöztepe
2025-06-18€2.4MGöztepe
2025-12-03€2.4MSouthampton FC

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
−0.493

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 11% of the 555 Premier League players.

€150k€1M€7.5M€50M€2.4MSee them in the Explorer →

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

Valued above 51% of the 1,687 midfielders.

€20k€200k€2M€20M€2.4MSee them in the Explorer →

Where Matsuki 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).