Romelu
Lukaku
CFBelgium · SSC Napoli
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Player dossierSerie A
RomeluLukaku
CFCentre-ForwardAttack
- Club
- SSC Napoli
- League
- Serie A
- Nationality
- Belgium
- Age
- 33
- Height
- 190 cm
- Foot
- Left
- Valued
- 29 May 2026
Serie AReading the valuation
The market values Lukaku at €6M. Model A, which never saw Lukaku during training, estimates €2.1M: the market value is 187% above that estimate.
That is a factor of ×2.87. 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 €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.
- Apps
- 45
- Minutes
- 2,960
- Goals
- 15
- Assists
- 11
- Started
- 35/45
- Min / app
- 66
- 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 Lukaku…
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 €6M
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)
Assists per 90
Club assists per 90 minutes in the same window.
0.33 this player0.15 attacker median94th 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
- May 2009
- Peak
- €100M
- Jul 2018
- Model target
- €6M
- May 2026
- Valuations
- 48
- 11 club changes
May 2026: €6M, SSC Napoli. Dotted lines mark the €2M, €10M and €30M tier boundaries.
Show as a table
| Date | Market value | Club |
|---|---|---|
| 2009-05-27 | €400k | RSC Anderlecht U17 |
| 2009-09-29 | €2M | RSC Anderlecht |
| 2009-12-07 | €5M | RSC Anderlecht |
| 2010-02-26 | €10M | RSC Anderlecht |
| 2010-12-28 | €14M | RSC Anderlecht |
| 2011-06-28 | €15M | RSC Anderlecht |
| 2012-02-06 | €15M | Chelsea FC |
| 2012-06-24 | €14M | Chelsea FC |
| 2013-01-28 | €19M | West Bromwich Albion |
| 2013-07-02 | €24M | Chelsea FC |
| 2014-01-15 | €25M | Everton FC |
| 2014-08-12 | €30M | Everton FC |
| 2015-02-12 | €30M | Everton FC |
| 2015-07-01 | €28M | Everton FC |
| 2016-02-09 | €35M | Everton FC |
| 2016-06-01 | €40M | Everton FC |
| 2016-08-01 | €40M | Everton FC |
| 2017-02-20 | €50M | Everton FC |
| 2017-06-28 | €50M | Everton FC |
| 2017-08-16 | €60M | Manchester United |
| 2017-10-23 | €70M | Manchester United |
| 2018-01-02 | €85M | Manchester United |
| 2018-05-28 | €90M | Manchester United |
| 2018-07-16 | €100M | Manchester United |
| 2018-12-19 | €85M | Manchester United |
| 2019-06-13 | €75M | Manchester United |
| 2019-12-12 | €75M | Inter Milan |
| 2020-03-03 | €85M | Inter Milan |
| 2020-04-08 | €68M | Inter Milan |
| 2020-08-25 | €85M | Inter Milan |
| 2020-12-29 | €90M | Inter Milan |
| 2021-05-26 | €100M | Inter Milan |
| 2021-12-23 | €100M | Chelsea FC |
| 2022-03-29 | €85M | Chelsea FC |
| 2022-06-15 | €70M | Chelsea FC |
| 2022-11-11 | €55M | Inter Milan |
| 2023-03-21 | €40M | Inter Milan |
| 2023-06-15 | €40M | Inter Milan |
| 2023-12-20 | €35M | AS Roma |
| 2024-03-12 | €30M | AS Roma |
| 2024-06-05 | €30M | AS Roma |
| 2024-12-18 | €25M | SSC Napoli |
| 2025-03-25 | €22M | SSC Napoli |
| 2025-06-17 | €22M | SSC Napoli |
| 2025-10-07 | €15M | SSC Napoli |
| 2025-12-23 | €15M | SSC Napoli |
| 2026-03-24 | €12M | SSC Napoli |
| 2026-05-29 | €6M | SSC Napoli |
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
- +1.055
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 →Serie A507 players · median €5.5M
Valued above 50% of the 507 Serie A players.
See them in the Explorer →Attackers, all leagues1,583 players · median €2.5M
Valued above 68% of the 1,583 attackers.
See them in the Explorer →Where Lukaku appears
- TerminalSerie A in the Player Explorer
- TerminalSerie A on the League Landscape
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Near this valuation closest observed values: same league, then same position
- MorataCFComo 1907 · Serie A€6M
- RomagnoliCBSS Lazio · Serie A€6M
- PašalićCMAtalanta BC · Serie A€6M
- RanieriCBACF Fiorentina · Serie A€6M
- AkpomCFIpswich Town · attackers€6M
- TraoréRWWest Ham United · attackers€6M
- GuedesLWReal Sociedad · attackers€6M
- GiakoumakisCFPAOK Thessaloniki · attackers€6M
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).