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Nathan-Dylan Saliba

Canada · the desk

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

    21

    sourced with the squad

  • position

    Midfield

    Canada

  • club tier

    1524

    ClubElo strength

  • our board

    #1098

    of 1424 rated players

  • folded so far

    2854′

    42 appearances

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

    7.50

    92th percentile of peers

On the pitch

Goals and assists for Canada, on the record and counted.

  • goals

    1

  • assists

    2

goals and assists from our captured match events · caps and minutes from the appearance record

Sourced

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

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

Our rating · the working

the board

1595 ±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

1592 full roster Elo (3 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 ~1603 ±46 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 21 (midfields' curve)measured from the open archive by our own study (defenders: the published literature's shape), never fitted to our calls
-22
transfer market value, a sourced market-consensus quality prior (the stronger reading for him here)his percentile among minutes-qualified peers, from club seasons
+33
quality rating · club, age + measured output
1595
form: national-team results, 42 appearances2854 minutes, weighted by margin, surprise and his match stats, but shared across the XI
-3
full roster Elo · with results
1592

Where the +33 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
7.50 transfer market value (EUR millions), as a rank among peers
his rank
92th 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(92.2th) = 46 × 1.42 × 0.5 (position weight) = +33

A forward-only shadow signal, as of 2026-06-28. 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

    #1098 of 1424 rated players on our board.

What he’d cost · our estimate

€4.8m€19m €9.5m

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 1524the level he plays at, the strongest signal of what a club pays
×1.08
ageage 21, the resale premium a club pays for the years to come
×1.23
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
€9.5m

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

  • 2025-06-30CF Montreal Anderlechtundisclosed
  • 2025-06-26CF Montreal Anderlechtundisclosed

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