Alexis Saelemaekers

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
26
sourced with the squad
position
Midfield
Belgium
our board
#271
of 1424 rated players
folded so far
2275′
36 appearances
transfer market value (EUR millions), as a rank among peers
20.00
97th percentile of peers

On the pitch

Goals for Belgium, 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: Belgium · Midfieldfootball-data.org · 2026-06-29

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

Our rating · the working

the board →

1861 ±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

1825 full roster Elo (−36 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 ~1830 ±45 a projection, not a measurement: room left on the midfield 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 Belgium's strengththe fair club-over-national anchor, every player's starting point: 1829
age curve at 26 (midfields' curve)measured from the open archive by our own study (defenders: the published literature's shape), never fitted to our calls: -12
transfer market value, a sourced market-consensus quality prior (the stronger reading for him here)his percentile among minutes-qualified peers, from club seasons: +43
quality rating · club, age + measured output: 1861
form: national-team results, 36 appearances2275 minutes, weighted by margin, surprise and his match stats, but shared across the XI: -36
full roster Elo · with results: 1825

Where the +43 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: 20.00 transfer market value (EUR millions), as a rank among peers
his rank: 97th 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(97.1th) = 46 × 1.89 × 0.5 (position weight) = +43

A forward-only shadow signal, as of 2026-06-27. 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
#271 of 1424 rated players on our board.
vs his seed
The folded nights have cost him 36 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.

The fee record · sourced

The market’s last public word: €3.5m (2020-09). The gap is evidence, many of them, together, recalibrate our model; no single one rewrites him.

2025-07-01AS Roma → AC Milanloan
2024-08-30AC Milan → AS Romaloan
2024-07-01Bologna → AC Milanundisclosed
2023-08-30AC Milan → Bolognaloan

Reported moves, dated and attributed (api-football.com), news facts, not a valuation site’s estimates. It never touches a call.

In our coverage · Belgium’s record

v SenegalSealed
at New Zealand1–5Called it
v Iran0–0Missed it
v Egypt1–1Missed it

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