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Edo Kayembe

DR Congo · the desk

Midfield, DR Congo

Club football at Watford 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

    27

    sourced with the squad

  • position

    Midfield

    DR Congo

  • club

    Watford FC

    football-data.org

  • club tier

    1458

    ClubElo strength

  • our board

    #1407

    of 1424 rated players

  • folded so far

    311′

    6 appearances

Sourced

squad
DR Congo · Midfieldfootball-data.org · 2026-06-29
club
Watford FCfootball-data.org · 2026-06-25

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

Our rating · the working

the board

1487 ±62

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

1488 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 DR Congo's strengththe fair club-over-national anchor, every player's starting point
1490
age curve at 27 (midfields' curve)measured from the open archive by our own study (defenders: the published literature's shape), never fitted to our calls
-3
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
1487
form: national-team results, 6 appearances311 minutes, weighted by margin, surprise and his match stats, but shared across the XI
+1
full roster Elo · with results
1488

A forward-only shadow signal, as of 2026-06-24. 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

    #1407 of 1424 rated players on our board.

What he’d cost · our estimate

€3.2m€12m €6.3m

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 1458the level he plays at, the strongest signal of what a club pays
×0.87
ageage 27, in the fee-peak window (24–27)
×1.00
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
€6.3m

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.

In our coverage · DR Congo’s record

  • at EnglandSealed
  • v Uzbekistan3–1Missed it
  • at Colombia1–0Called it
  • at Portugal1–1Missed it

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

Squad · sourced