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Alfie Jones

Canada · the desk

Defence, Canada

Club football at Middlesbrough 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

    28

    sourced with the squad

  • position

    Defence

    Canada

  • club

    Middlesbrough FC

    football-data.org

  • club tier

    1589

    ClubElo strength

  • our board

    #934

    of 1424 rated players

  • folded so far

    20′

    1 appearance

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

    6.00

    91th percentile of peers

Sourced

squad
Canada · Defencefootball-data.org · 2026-06-29
club
Middlesbrough FCfootball-data.org · 2026-06-25

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

Our rating · the working

the board

1675 ±78

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

1676 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 Canada's strengththe fair club-over-national anchor, every player's starting point
1651
age curve at 28 (defences' curve)the position's measured peak, no discount either way
+0
transfer market value, a sourced market-consensus quality prior (the stronger reading for him here)his percentile among minutes-qualified peers, from club seasons
+24
quality rating · club, age + measured output
1675
form: national-team results, 1 appearance20 minutes, weighted by margin, surprise and his match stats, but shared across the XI
+1
full roster Elo · with results
1676

Where the +24 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
6.00 transfer market value (EUR millions), as a rank among peers
his rank
91th 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(90.5th) = 46 × 1.31 × 0.4 (position weight) = +24

A forward-only shadow signal, as of 2026-06-02. 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

    #934 of 1424 rated players on our board.

What he’d cost · our estimate

€2.6m€10m €5.1m

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 1589the level he plays at, the strongest signal of what a club pays
×1.35
ageage 28, past the fee-peak, value falls ~18% a year
×0.82
defender fee factorstrikers set the market's top; midfield runs close; defence and goal at the record books' discounts
×0.58
individual skillour xG model has no confident read on him, priced on club, age and role only, so the band is wide
×1.00
our estimate
€5.1m

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

  • 2025-07-25Hull City Middlesbroughundisclosed
  • 2020-09-04Southampton Hull Cityundisclosed
  • 2019-07-02Southampton Gillinghamloan
  • 2019-01-07ST Mirren Southamptonundisclosed

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

In our coverage · Canada’s record

  • at South Africa0–1Called it
  • at Switzerland2–1Missed it
  • v Qatar6–0Called it
  • v Bosnia & Herzegovina1–1Missed it

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

Squad · sourced