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Duje Ćaleta-Car

Croatia · the desk

Defence, Croatia

Club football at Real Sociedad de Fútbol.

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

    29

    sourced with the squad

  • position

    Defence

    Croatia

  • club

    Real Sociedad de Fútbol

    football-data.org

  • club tier

    1669

    ClubElo strength

  • our board

    #557

    of 1424 rated players

  • folded so far

    2222′

    28 appearances

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

    2.80

    82th percentile of peers

Sourced

squad
Croatia · Defencefootball-data.org · 2026-06-29
club
Real Sociedad de Fútbolfootball-data.org · 2026-06-29

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

Our rating · the working

the board

1766 ±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

1811 full roster Elo (+45 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 Croatia's strengththe fair club-over-national anchor, every player's starting point
1750
age curve at 29 (defences' curve)the position's measured peak, no discount either way
+0
transfer market value, a sourced market-consensus quality prior (the stronger reading for him here)his percentile among minutes-qualified peers, from club seasons
+17
quality rating · club, age + measured output
1766
form: national-team results, 28 appearances2222 minutes, weighted by margin, surprise and his match stats, but shared across the XI
+45
full roster Elo · with results
1811

Where the +17 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
2.80 transfer market value (EUR millions), as a rank among peers
his rank
82th 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(81.9th) = 46 × 0.91 × 0.4 (position weight) = +17

A forward-only shadow signal, as of 2026-05-14. 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

    #557 of 1424 rated players on our board.

  • vs his seed

    The folded nights have added +45 to the number he seeded with, he has outplayed his own prior.

What he’d cost · our estimate

€3.2m€13m €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 1669the level he plays at, the strongest signal of what a club pays
×1.76
ageage 29, past the fee-peak, value falls ~18% a year
×0.67
defender fee factorstrikers set the market's top; midfield runs close; defence and goal at the record books' discounts
×0.58
individual skillmeasured 68th percentile of peers
×1.17
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.

The fee record · sourced

The market’s last public word: €3.6m (2024-07). Our estimate today: ≈ €6.3m. The gap is evidence, many of them, together, recalibrate our model; no single one rewrites him.

our read: undervalued , we rate him 76% above his last market price (a gem signal, context only)

  • 2025-08-01Lyon Real Sociedadloan
  • 2024-07-08Southampton Lyon€3.6m
  • 2023-08-02Southampton Lyonloan
  • 2022-09-01Marseille Southampton€10m

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

In our coverage · Croatia’s record

  • v Ghana2–1Called it
  • at Panama0–1Called it
  • at England4–2Called it

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

Squad · sourced