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Lionel Mpasi

DR Congo · the desk

Goalkeeper, DR Congo

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

    31

    sourced with the squad

  • position

    Goalkeeper

    DR Congo

  • club tier

    1580

    ClubElo strength

  • our board

    #1165

    of 1424 rated players

  • folded so far

    1149′

    12 appearances

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

    0.40

    41th percentile of peers

Sourced

squad
DR Congo · Goalkeeperfootball-data.org · 2026-06-29

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

Our rating · the working

the board

1574 ±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

1584 full roster Elo (+10 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 ~1586 ±45 a projection, not a measurement: room left on the goalkeeper 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 DR Congo's strengththe fair club-over-national anchor, every player's starting point
1582
age curve at 31 (goalkeepers' curve)measured from the open archive by our own study (defenders: the published literature's shape), never fitted to our calls
-3
transfer market value, a sourced market-consensus quality prior (the stronger reading for him here)his percentile among minutes-qualified peers, from club seasons
-5
quality rating · club, age + measured output
1574
form: national-team results, 12 appearances1149 minutes, weighted by margin, surprise and his match stats, but shared across the XI
+10
full roster Elo · with results
1584

Where the -5 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
0.40 transfer market value (EUR millions), as a rank among peers
his rank
41th 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(41.4th) = 46 × -0.22 × 0.5 (position weight) = -5

A forward-only shadow signal, as of 2026-06-27. 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

    #1165 of 1424 rated players on our board.

  • vs his seed

    The folded nights have added +10 to the number he seeded with, he has outplayed his own prior.

  • workload

    He barely leaves the pitch: 96′ a night across 12 folded appearances.

What he’d cost · our estimate

€1.9m€7.4m €3.8m

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 1580the level he plays at, the strongest signal of what a club pays
×1.31
ageage 31, past the fee-peak, value falls ~18% a year
×0.82
goalkeeper fee factorstrikers set the market's top; midfield runs close; defence and goal at the record books' discounts
×0.43
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
€3.8m

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

  • 2025-07-13Rodez Le Havrefree

Reported moves, dated and attributed (api-football.com), news facts, not a valuation site’s estimates. 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