Midfield, Belgium
Club football at Sport Lisboa e Benfica.
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
28
sourced with the squad
position
Midfield
Belgium
club
Sport Lisboa e Benfica
football-data.org
club tier
1824
ClubElo strength
our board
#142
of 1424 rated players
folded so far
1486′
35 appearances
npxG per 90
0.25
83th percentile of peers
Sourced
- squad
- Belgium · Midfieldfootball-data.org · 2026-06-29
- club
- Sport Lisboa e Benficafootball-data.org · 2026-06-29
Sourced context, nothing more. It never touches a call.
Our rating · the working
the board →1929 ±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
1928 full roster Elo (−1 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
at or near his peak, no projected upside from age
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
- 1885
- age curve at 28 (midfields' curve)the position's measured peak, no discount either way
- +0
- attacking output in club football, our xG modelhis percentile among minutes-qualified peers, from club seasons
- +44
- quality rating · club, age + measured output
- 1929
- form: national-team results, 35 appearances1486 minutes, weighted by margin, surprise and his match stats, but shared across the XI
- -1
- full roster Elo · with results
- 1928
Where the +44 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
- 0.25 npxG per 90
- his rank
- 83th percentile of qualified peers
- scored from
- recent club seasons, every shot scored by our own xG model
- the arithmetic
- 46 pts/σ × z(83.0th) = 46 × 0.95 = +44
A forward-only shadow signal, as of 2026-06-21. 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
#142 of 1424 on our board, top 10% of everyone we rate.
What he’d cost · our estimate
€14m–€54m ≈ €28m
Not a figure from any valuation site; we don’t republish those. Our own model: the level he plays at, what we’ve measured of him, his age and his role. A band, not a point: we can’t see contract length or release clauses, the two biggest real drivers, so we say so.
The workingopenclose
- reference feea mid-tier-club, peak-age forward of average measured skill
- €8m
- club tier 1824the level he plays at, the strongest signal of what a club pays
- ×3.06
- ageage 28, past the fee-peak, value falls ~18% a year
- ×0.82
- attacker fee factorstrikers set the market's top; midfield runs close; defence and goal at the record books' discounts
- ×1.00
- individual skillmeasured 83th percentile of peers
- ×1.49
- our estimate
- ≈ €28m
fee-model v3 priors (panel-anchored, 2026-06), calibrated against our reported fees. The band is roughly two-in-three likely; contract length and release clauses are data we don’t hold. Context only, it never touches a call.
The fee record · sourced
The market’s last public word: €10m (2023-08). Our estimate today: ≈ €28m. The gap is evidence, many of them, together, recalibrate our model; no single one rewrites him.
our read: undervalued , we rate him 176% above his last market price (a gem signal, context only)
- 2025-09-01Sevilla → Benficaundisclosed
- 2023-08-24Hertha BSC → Sevilla€10m
- 2022-07-01VfL Wolfsburg → Hertha BSCundisclosed
- 2021-08-30Hertha BSC → VfL Wolfsburgloan
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
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- v Iran0–0Missed it
- v Egypt1–1Missed it
The newsroom’s calls on Belgium. Team-level, never dressed up as a player stat.
Squad · sourced
- Alexis Saelemaekers
- Amadou Onana
- Arthur Theate
- Axel Witsel
- Brandon Mechele
- Charles De Ketelaere
- Diego Moreira
- Hans Vanaken
- Jeremy Doku
- Joaquin Seys
- Kevin De Bruyne
- Koni De Winter
- Leandro Trossard
- Matias Fernandez-Pardo
- Maxim De Cuyper
- Mike Penders
- Nathan Ngoy
- Nicolas Raskin
- Romelu Lukaku
- Senne Lammens
- Thibaut Courtois
- Thomas Meunier
- Timothy Castagne
- Youri Tielemans
- Zeno Debast