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Algeria · the desk

Defence, Algeria

Sourced facts, dated and on the record. Squad membership, and his club when a source names one. Nothing invented; we don’t make players up.

At a glance

  • age

    23

    sourced with the squad

  • position

    Defence

    Algeria

  • our board

    #1075

    of 1424 rated players

  • folded so far

    1366′

    18 appearances

  • transfer market value (EUR millions), as a rank among peers

    7.00

    92th percentile of peers

On the pitch

Goals for Algeria, on the record and counted.

  • goals

    1

  • assists

    0

goals and assists from our captured match events · caps and minutes from the appearance record

Sourced

squad
Algeria · Defencefootball-data.org · 2026-06-29

Sourced context, nothing more. It never touches a call.

Our rating · the working

the board →

1600 ±45

his quality rating: club, age and measured output. The board orders by this plus his World Cup form, less a discount for how much we can measure him.

How the number is builtopenclose

1582 full roster Elo (−18 from national-team results)

the ± is how settled the number is, more minutes, tighter band

Tier 2, lineups + results, how rich the evidence is, not just how much

potential ~1589 ±46 a projection, not a measurement: room left on the defence age curve

Where he starts (his team’s strength, we refuse to invent what we haven’t measured) plus two fixed nudges make the quality rating above; the last line is what national-team results have added since, taking it to his full roster Elo.

starts at Algeria's strengththe fair club-over-national anchor, every player's starting point
1582
age curve at 23 (defences' curve)young-side discount halved, his measured production overrides the average-youngster prior
-7
transfer market value, a sourced market-consensus quality prior (the stronger reading for him here)his percentile among minutes-qualified peers, from club seasons
+25
quality rating · club, age + measured output
1600
form: national-team results, 18 appearances1366 minutes, weighted by margin, surprise and his match stats, but shared across the XI
-18
full roster Elo · with results
1582

Where the +25 skill term comes from

Not a reputation, a measurement. We score every shot in the data ourselves and rank him among minutes-qualified peers; a fixed arithmetic turns that rank into points.

measured
7.00 transfer market value (EUR millions), as a rank among peers
his rank
92th percentile of qualified peers
scored from
the CC0 Transfermarkt community mirror; a market-consensus quality prior, taken at a capped weight where it reads a player higher than our (fixed, partial) shot/event data can
the arithmetic
46 pts/σ × z(91.6th) = 46 × 1.38 × 0.4 (position weight) = +25

A forward-only shadow signal, as of 2026-06-28. The skill term comes from our own xG models over the open archive; the rest is earned, recorded per appearance, auditable, never back-filled. It never moves a live call.

The notebook

The lines a beat writer keeps, except every one of ours is read off the ledger above, auditable to the night. Nothing invented.

  • standing

    #1075 of 1424 rated players on our board.

  • vs his seed

    The folded nights have cost him 18 points off his seed, kept on the record, like everything.

What he’d cost · our estimate

We don’t price him yet. Our fee model leans on the level he plays at, and no trusted source has given us his club’s strength. We’d rather show nothing than a number we don’t trust.

In our coverage · Algeria’s record

  • v Austria3–3Called it
  • at Jordan1–2Called it
  • at Argentina3–0Called it

The newsroom’s calls on Algeria. Team-level, never dressed up as a player stat.

Squad · sourced