Jean-Philippe Mateta

Offence, France

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
28
sourced with the squad
position
Offence
France
our board
#101
of 1424 rated players
folded so far
1480′
25 appearances
npxG per 90
0.37
94th percentile of peers

Sourced

squad: France · Offencefootball-data.org · 2026-06-29

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

Our rating · the working

the board →

1963 ±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

1908 full roster Elo (−55 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 France's strengththe fair club-over-national anchor, every player's starting point: 1892
age curve at 28 (offences' curve)the position's measured peak, no discount either way: +0
attacking output in club football, our xG modelhis percentile among minutes-qualified peers, from club seasons: +71
quality rating · club, age + measured output: 1963
form: national-team results, 25 appearances1480 minutes, weighted by margin, surprise and his match stats, but shared across the XI: -55
full roster Elo · with results: 1908

Where the +71 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: 0.37 npxG per 90
his rank: 94th percentile of qualified peers
scored from: recent club seasons, every shot scored by our own xG model
the arithmetic: 46 pts/σ × z(93.8th) = 46 × 1.54 = +71

A forward-only shadow signal, as of 2026-06-26. 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
#101 of 1424 on our board, top 10% of everyone we rate.
vs his seed
The folded nights have cost him 55 points off his seed, kept on the record, like everything.

What he’d cost · our estimate

We don’t price him yet. Our fee model leans on the level he plays at, and no trusted source has given us his club’s strength. We’d rather show nothing than a number we don’t trust.

The fee record · sourced

The market’s last public word: €11m (2022-01). The gap is evidence, many of them, together, recalibrate our model; no single one rewrites him.

2022-01-31FSV Mainz 05 → Crystal Palace€11m
2022-01-30Crystal Palace → FSV Mainz 05undisclosed
2021-01-21FSV Mainz 05 → Crystal Palaceloan
2018-07-01Lyon → FSV Mainz 05€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 · France’s record

v SwedenSealed
at Norway1–4Missed it
v Iraq3–0Called it
v Senegal3–1Called it

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