Carlos
Baleba
DMCameroon · Brighton & Hove Albion
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Player dossierPremier League
CarlosBaleba
DMDefensive MidfieldMidfield
- Club
- Brighton & Hove Albion
- League
- Premier League
- Nationality
- Cameroon
- Age
- 22
- Height
- 179 cm
- Foot
- Left
- Valued
- 3 Jun 2026
Premier LeagueReading the valuation
The market values Baleba at €55M. Model A, which never saw Baleba during training, estimates €36.2M: the market value is 52% above that estimate.
That is a factor of ×1.52. 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 €15.2M, 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
- 74
- Minutes
- 5,008
- Goals
- 3
- Assists
- 2
- Started
- 62/74
- Min / app
- 68
- Cards
- 16Y 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 Baleba…
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 €55M
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, two years
Total club minutes in the two-year window: how much the player was used.
5,008 this player2,607 midfielder median86th 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
- €150k
- May 2022
- Peak
- €60M
- Oct 2025
- Model target
- €55M
- Jun 2026
- Valuations
- 14
- 2 club changes
Jun 2026: €55M, Brighton & Hove Albion. Dotted lines mark the €2M, €10M and €30M tier boundaries.
Show as a table
| Date | Market value | Club |
|---|---|---|
| 2022-05-30 | €150k | LOSC Lille B |
| 2022-09-19 | €500k | LOSC Lille |
| 2022-11-02 | €800k | LOSC Lille |
| 2023-03-27 | €3M | LOSC Lille |
| 2023-06-27 | €5M | LOSC Lille |
| 2023-10-09 | €20M | Brighton & Hove Albion |
| 2023-12-19 | €20M | Brighton & Hove Albion |
| 2024-05-27 | €22M | Brighton & Hove Albion |
| 2024-12-16 | €35M | Brighton & Hove Albion |
| 2025-05-30 | €40M | Brighton & Hove Albion |
| 2025-10-17 | €60M | Brighton & Hove Albion |
| 2025-12-09 | €60M | Brighton & Hove Albion |
| 2026-03-09 | €55M | Brighton & Hove Albion |
| 2026-06-03 | €55M | Brighton & Hove Albion |
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
- +0.419
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 91% of the 555 Premier League players.
See them in the Explorer →Midfielders, all leagues1,687 players · median €2M
Valued above 98% of the 1,687 midfielders.
See them in the Explorer →Where Baleba appears
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Near this valuation closest observed values: same league, then same position
- DiasCBManchester City · Premier League€55M
- HavertzCFArsenal FC · Premier League€55M
- WoltemadeCFNewcastle United · Premier League€55M
- CalafioriLBArsenal FC · Premier League€55M
- BarriosCMAtlético de Madrid · midfielders€55M
- OlmoAMFC Barcelona · midfielders€60M
- KarlAMBayern Munich · midfielders€60M
- BarellaCMInter Milan · midfielders€50M
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).