Midfield, Belgium
Club football at Manchester City FC.
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
Midfield
Belgium
club
Manchester City FC
football-data.org
club tier
1971
ClubElo strength
our board
#23
of 1424 rated players
folded so far
2879′
41 appearances
transfer market value (EUR millions), as a rank among peers
75.00
100th percentile of peers
Sourced
- squad
- Belgium · Midfieldfootball-data.org · 2026-06-29
- club
- Manchester City FCfootball-data.org · 2026-06-29
Sourced context, nothing more. It never touches a call.
Our rating · the working
the board →2056 ±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
2058 full roster Elo (+2 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 ~2063 ±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
- 1995
- age curve at 23 (midfields' curve)young-side discount halved, his measured production overrides the average-youngster prior
- -4
- transfer market value, a sourced market-consensus quality prior (the stronger reading for him here)his percentile among minutes-qualified peers, from club seasons
- +66
- quality rating · club, age + measured output
- 2056
- form: national-team results, 41 appearances2879 minutes, weighted by margin, surprise and his match stats, but shared across the XI
- +2
- full roster Elo · with results
- 2058
Where the +66 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
- 75.00 transfer market value (EUR millions), as a rank among peers
- his rank
- 100th 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(99.8th) = 46 × 2.85 × 0.5 (position weight) = +66
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
#23 of 1424 on our board, top 10% of everyone we rate.
What he’d cost · our estimate
€27m–€106m ≈ €54m
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 1971the level he plays at, the strongest signal of what a club pays
- ×6.39
- ageage 23, the resale premium a club pays for the years to come
- ×1.07
- midfielder fee factorstrikers set the market's top; midfield runs close; defence and goal at the record books' discounts
- ×0.90
- individual skillmeasured 73th percentile of peers
- ×1.21
- our estimate
- ≈ €54m
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: €60m (2023-08). Our estimate today: ≈ €54m. The gap is evidence, many of them, together, recalibrate our model; no single one rewrites him.
- 2023-08-24Rennes → Manchester City€60m
- 2020-10-05Anderlecht → Rennesundisclosed
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.
Squad · sourced
- Alexis Saelemaekers
- Amadou Onana
- Arthur Theate
- Axel Witsel
- Brandon Mechele
- Charles De Ketelaere
- Diego Moreira
- Dodi Lukebakio
- Hans Vanaken
- 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