Ismael Kone

Midfield, Canada

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
Canada
club tier
1622
ClubElo strength
our board
#1161
of 1424 rated players
folded so far
3680′
51 appearances

Sourced

squad: Canada · Midfieldfootball-data.org · 2026-06-29

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

Our rating · the working

the board →

1575 ±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

1608 full roster Elo (+33 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 ~1615 ±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 Canada's strengththe fair club-over-national anchor, every player's starting point: 1584
age curve at 23 (midfields' curve)measured from the open archive by our own study (defenders: the published literature's shape), never fitted to our calls: -9
individual skill termour club xG models haven't seen enough of him for a confident read, so nothing is added, never guessed: +0
quality rating · club, age + measured output: 1575
form: national-team results, 51 appearances3680 minutes, weighted by margin, surprise and his match stats, but shared across the XI: +33
full roster Elo · with results: 1608

A forward-only shadow signal, as of 2026-06-18. 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
#1161 of 1424 rated players on our board.
vs his seed
The folded nights have added +33 to the number he seeded with, he has outplayed his own prior.

What he’d cost · our estimate

€5.7m–€22m ≈ €11m

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 1622the level he plays at, the strongest signal of what a club pays: ×1.50
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 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: ≈ €11m

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: €12m (2024-07). Our estimate today: ≈ €11m. The gap is evidence, many of them, together, recalibrate our model; no single one rewrites him.

2026-02-01Marseille → Sassuoloundisclosed
2026-01-31Sassuolo → Marseilleloan
2025-07-28Marseille → Sassuololoan
2025-07-01Rennes → Marseilleundisclosed

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.