Mohamed
Kaba
CMGuinea · FC Nantes
Player dossierLigue 1
MohamedKaba
CMCentral MidfieldMidfield
- Club
- FC Nantes
- League
- Ligue 1
- Nationality
- Guinea
- Age
- 24
- Height
- 185 cm
- Foot
- Right
- Valued
- 1 Jun 2026
Ligue 1Reading the valuation
The market values Kaba at €2.5M. Model A, which never saw Kaba during training, estimates €4.2M: the market value is 40% below that estimate.
That is a factor of ×1.66. 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 €1.9M, 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.
- Apps
- 44
- Minutes
- 2,044
- Goals
- 1
- Assists
- 2
- Started
- 19/44
- Min / app
- 46
- 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 Kaba…
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 €2.5M
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 1,687 midfielders
Dashed ring: the midfielder median (50th percentile)
Minutes, last 365 days
Club minutes in the final year of the window: recent involvement, or the absence of it.
1,603 this player1,541 midfielder median52nd 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
- €200k
- Aug 2021
- Peak
- €3.5M
- Oct 2023
- Model target
- €2.5M
- Jun 2026
- Valuations
- 17
- 2 club changes
Jun 2026: €2.5M, FC Nantes. Dotted lines mark the €2M, €10M and €30M tier boundaries.
Show as a table
| Date | Market value | Club |
|---|---|---|
| 2021-08-06 | €200k | Valenciennes FC |
| 2021-10-27 | €600k | Valenciennes FC |
| 2021-12-27 | €800k | Valenciennes FC |
| 2022-03-24 | €1M | Valenciennes FC |
| 2022-06-02 | €1.8M | Valenciennes FC |
| 2022-10-28 | €2.2M | Valenciennes FC |
| 2023-04-06 | €2.5M | Valenciennes FC |
| 2023-06-16 | €3M | Valenciennes FC |
| 2023-10-11 | €3.5M | US Lecce |
| 2023-12-20 | €3.5M | US Lecce |
| 2024-06-05 | €3.5M | US Lecce |
| 2024-12-18 | €3.5M | US Lecce |
| 2025-03-25 | €2.3M | US Lecce |
| 2025-06-17 | €2M | US Lecce |
| 2025-12-23 | €1.5M | US Lecce |
| 2026-03-27 | €2M | FC Nantes |
| 2026-06-01 | €2.5M | FC Nantes |
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
- −0.508
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 24% of the 423 Ligue 1 players.
See them in the Explorer →Midfielders, all leagues1,687 players · median €2M
Valued above 51% of the 1,687 midfielders.
See them in the Explorer →Where Kaba appears
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Near this valuation closest observed values: same league, then same position
- AubameyangCFOlympique Marseille · Ligue 1€2.5M
- GraditCBRC Lens · Ligue 1€2.5M
- MvogoGKFC Lorient · Ligue 1€2.5M
- TouréDMLe Havre AC · Ligue 1€2.5M
- EriksenAMVfL Wolfsburg · midfielders€2.5M
- GroßCMBrighton & Hove Albion · midfielders€2.5M
- BuyalskyiAMDynamo Kyiv · midfielders€2.5M
- LazaroRMTorino FC · midfielders€2.5M
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).