Logan Costa

Club football at Villarreal CF.

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
24
sourced with the squad
position
Defence
Cape Verde
club
Villarreal CF
football-data.org
club tier
1759
ClubElo strength
our board
#852
of 1424 rated players
folded so far
508′
7 appearances

On the pitch

Minutes on the pitch for Cape Verde. The goals come or they do not; we log either.

goals
0
assists
0
caps
5
minutes
480′

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

Sourced

squad: Cape Verde · Defencefootball-data.org · 2026-06-29
club: Villarreal CFfootball-data.org · 2026-06-29

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

Our rating · the working

the board →

1700 ±55

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

1728 full roster Elo (+28 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 ~1738 ±55 a projection, not a measurement: room left on the defence 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 Cape Verde's strengththe fair club-over-national anchor, every player's starting point: 1715
age curve at 24 (defences' curve)measured from the open archive by our own study (defenders: the published literature's shape), never fitted to our calls: -15
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: 1700
form: national-team results, 7 appearances508 minutes, weighted by margin, surprise and his match stats, but shared across the XI: +28
full roster Elo · with results: 1728

Rating trend

-43 over 8 updates

Seeded from his team’s rating, then moved by the matches he actually played. A shadow signal, it never touches a live call.

Where the +28 was earned

The earned line, opened up by competition. World Cup finals count 1.5×, qualifiers and cups 1×, friendlies and club football half, so a tournament night moves him most.

internationals, qualifiers & cups5 apps · 480′: +28
club football2 apps · 28′: +0

His latest nights

2026-05-24club football · 15′ · team result only▲ +1
2026-05-17club football · 13′ · team result only▼ −1
2024-02-03internationals, qualifiers & cups · 120′ · team result only▼ −0
2024-01-29internationals, qualifiers & cups · 90′ · team result only▲ +4
2024-01-22internationals, qualifiers & cups · 90′ · team result only▲ +4

Each night’s move blends his team’s result with his own match stats, saves for keepers, tackles and duels for defenders, creation for midfielders, finishing up front. “Team result only” marks games where the feed carried no player stats.

A forward-only shadow signal, as of 2026-05-24. 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
#852 of 1424 rated players on our board.
best night
His best night in our ledger: +10 in one sitting, internationals, qualifiers & cups, 2024-01-19.
vs his seed
The folded nights have added +28 to the number he seeded with, he has outplayed his own prior.

What he’d cost · our estimate

€5.4m–€21m ≈ €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 1759the level he plays at, the strongest signal of what a club pays: ×2.37
ageage 24, in the fee-peak window (24–27): ×1.00
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: ≈ €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: €18m (2024-08). Our estimate today: ≈ €11m. The gap is evidence, many of them, together, recalibrate our model; no single one rewrites him.

our read: richly priced , we rate him 41% below his last market price (a gem signal, context only)

2024-08-22Toulouse II → Villarreal€18m
2021-08-20Reims → Toulouseundisclosed
2021-07-01Le Mans → Reimsundisclosed
2020-07-11Reims → Le Mansloan

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

In our coverage · Cape Verde’s record

v Saudi Arabia0–0Called it
at Uruguay2–2Missed it
at Spain0–0Missed it

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