Iñaki Williams

Offence, Ghana

Club football at Athletic Club.

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
Offence
Ghana
club
Athletic Club
football-data.org
club tier
1678
ClubElo strength
our board
#781
of 1424 rated players
folded so far
2249′
32 appearances
npxG + xA per 90
0.29
79th percentile of peers

Sourced

squad: Ghana · Offencefootball-data.org · 2026-06-29
club: Athletic Clubfootball-data.org · 2026-06-29

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

Our rating · the working

the board →

1716 ±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

1735 full roster Elo (+19 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 Ghana's strengththe fair club-over-national anchor, every player's starting point: 1686
age curve at 31 (offences' curve)measured from the open archive by our own study (defenders: the published literature's shape), never fitted to our calls: -7
attacking output, our xG modelhis percentile among minutes-qualified peers, from club seasons: +37
quality rating · club, age + measured output: 1716
form: national-team results, 32 appearances2249 minutes, weighted by margin, surprise and his match stats, but shared across the XI: +19
full roster Elo · with results: 1735

Where the +37 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: 0.29 npxG + xA per 90
his rank: 79th percentile of qualified peers
scored from: the open StatsBomb archive, every shot scored by our own xG model
the arithmetic: 46 pts/σ × z(78.8th) = 46 × 0.80 = +37

A forward-only shadow signal, as of 2026-06-23. 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
#781 of 1424 rated players on our board.
vs his seed
The folded nights have added +19 to the number he seeded with, he has outplayed his own prior.

What he’d cost · our estimate

€4.6m–€18m ≈ €9m

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 1678the level he plays at, the strongest signal of what a club pays: ×1.81
ageage 31, past the fee-peak, value falls ~18% a year: ×0.45
attacker fee factorstrikers set the market's top; midfield runs close; defence and goal at the record books' discounts: ×1.00
individual skillmeasured 79th percentile of peers: ×1.41
our estimate: ≈ €9m

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 · Ghana’s record

at Croatia2–1Called it
at England0–0Missed it
v Panama1–0Missed it

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