Midfield, Ghana
Club football at Villarreal CF.
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
32
sourced with the squad
position
Midfield
Ghana
club
Villarreal CF
football-data.org
club tier
1759
ClubElo strength
our board
#696
of 1424 rated players
folded so far
1161′
28 appearances
transfer market value (EUR millions), as a rank among peers
2.00
77th percentile of peers
Sourced
- squad
- Ghana · Midfieldfootball-data.org · 2026-06-29
- club
- Villarreal CFfootball-data.org · 2026-06-29
Sourced context, nothing more. It never touches a call.
Our rating · the working
the board →1736 ±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
1743 full roster Elo (+6 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
- 1746
- age curve at 32 (midfields' curve)measured from the open archive by our own study (defenders: the published literature's shape), never fitted to our calls
- -27
- 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
- 1736
- form: national-team results, 28 appearances1161 minutes, weighted by margin, surprise and his match stats, but shared across the XI
- +6
- full roster Elo · with results
- 1743
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
- 2.00 transfer market value (EUR millions), as a rank among peers
- his rank
- 77th 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(77.4th) = 46 × 0.75 × 0.5 (position weight) = +17
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
#696 of 1424 rated players on our board.
What he’d cost · our estimate
€3.4m–€13m ≈ €6.7m
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 1759the level he plays at, the strongest signal of what a club pays
- ×2.37
- ageage 32, past the fee-peak, value falls ~18% a year
- ×0.37
- midfielder fee factorstrikers set the market's top; midfield runs close; defence and goal at the record books' discounts
- ×0.90
- individual skillmeasured 57th percentile of peers
- ×1.07
- our estimate
- ≈ €6.7m
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: €50m (2020-10). Our estimate today: ≈ €6.7m. The gap is evidence, many of them, together, recalibrate our model; no single one rewrites him.
our read: richly priced , we rate him 87% below his last market price (a gem signal, context only)
- 2025-08-07Arsenal → Villarrealfree
- 2020-10-05Atletico Madrid → Arsenal€50m
- 2015-07-01Almeria → Atletico Madridundisclosed
- 2014-07-28Atletico Madrid → Almerialoan
Reported moves, dated and attributed (api-football.com), news facts, not a valuation site’s estimates. 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.
Squad · sourced
- Abdul Issahaku
- Abdul Mumin
- Abdul Rahman Baba
- Alidu Seidu
- Antoine Semenyo
- Augustine Boakye
- Benjamin Asare
- Brandon Thomas-Asante
- Caleb Yirenkyi
- Christopher Bonsu Baah
- Derrick Luckassen
- Elisha Owusu
- Ernest Nuamah
- Gideon Mensah
- Iñaki Williams
- Jerome Opoku
- Jonas Adjei Adjetey
- Jordan Ayew
- Joseph Anang
- Kamal Deen Sulemana
- Kojo Peprah Oppong
- Kwasi Sibo
- Lawrence Ati-Zigi
- Marvin Senaya
- Prince Adu