Defence, England
Club football at Bayer 04 Leverkusen.
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
22
sourced with the squad
position
Defence
England
club
Bayer 04 Leverkusen
football-data.org
club tier
1804
ClubElo strength
our board
#164
of 1424 rated players
folded so far
1818′
24 appearances
transfer market value (EUR millions), as a rank among peers
45.00
99th percentile of peers
Sourced
- squad
- England · Defencefootball-data.org · 2026-06-29
- club
- Bayer 04 Leverkusenfootball-data.org · 2026-06-29
Sourced context, nothing more. It never touches a call.
Our rating · the working
the board →1911 ±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
1930 full roster Elo (+18 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 ~1940 ±46 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 England's strengththe fair club-over-national anchor, every player's starting point
- 1873
- age curve at 22 (defences' curve)young-side discount halved, his measured production overrides the average-youngster prior
- -7
- transfer market value, a sourced market-consensus quality prior (the stronger reading for him here)his percentile among minutes-qualified peers, from club seasons
- +45
- quality rating · club, age + measured output
- 1911
- form: national-team results, 24 appearances1818 minutes, weighted by margin, surprise and his match stats, but shared across the XI
- +18
- full roster Elo · with results
- 1930
Where the +45 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
- 45.00 transfer market value (EUR millions), as a rank among peers
- his rank
- 99th 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(99.3th) = 46 × 2.47 × 0.4 (position weight) = +45
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
#164 of 1424 rated players on our board.
vs his seed
The folded nights have added +18 to the number he seeded with, he has outplayed his own prior.
What he’d cost · our estimate
€6.9m–€27m ≈ €14m
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 1804the level he plays at, the strongest signal of what a club pays
- ×2.77
- ageage 22, the resale premium a club pays for the years to come
- ×1.15
- defender fee factorstrikers set the market's top; midfield runs close; defence and goal at the record books' discounts
- ×0.58
- individual skillmeasured 45th percentile of peers
- ×0.96
- our estimate
- ≈ €14m
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
- 2025-07-02Liverpool → Bayer Leverkusenundisclosed
- 2023-07-01Bristol Rovers → Liverpool U21undisclosed
- 2023-01-20Liverpool → Bristol Roversloan
Reported moves, dated and attributed (api-football.com), news facts, not a valuation site’s estimates. It never touches a call.
In our coverage · England’s record
- v DR CongoSealed
- at Panama0–2Called it
- v Ghana0–0Missed it
- v Croatia4–2Called it
The newsroom’s calls on England. Team-level, never dressed up as a player stat.
Squad · sourced
- Anthony Gordon
- Bukayo Saka
- Dan Burn
- Dean Henderson
- Declan Rice
- Djed Spence
- Eberechi Eze
- Elliot Anderson
- Ezri Konsa
- Harry Kane
- Ivan Toney
- James Trafford
- John Stones
- Jordan Henderson
- Jordan Pickford
- Jude Bellingham
- Kobbie Mainoo
- Marc Guéhi
- Marcus Rashford
- Morgan Rogers
- Nico O'Reilly
- Noni Madueke
- Ollie Watkins
- Reece James
- Trevoh Chalobah