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Mehdi Taremi

Iran · the desk

Offence, Iran

Club football at PAE Olympiakos SFP.

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

    33

    sourced with the squad

  • position

    Offence

    Iran

  • club

    PAE Olympiakos SFP

    football-data.org

  • club tier

    1663

    ClubElo strength

  • our board

    #778

    of 1424 rated players

  • folded so far

    364′

    4 appearances

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

    2.00

    77th percentile of peers

Sourced

squad
Iran · Offencefootball-data.org · 2026-06-29
club
PAE Olympiakos SFPfootball-data.org · 2026-06-29

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

Our rating · the working

the board

1716 ±59

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

1698 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

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 Iran's strengththe fair club-over-national anchor, every player's starting point
1719
age curve at 33 (offences' curve)measured from the open archive by our own study (defenders: the published literature's shape), never fitted to our calls
-20
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
1716
form: national-team results, 4 appearances364 minutes, weighted by margin, surprise and his match stats, but shared across the XI
-18
full roster Elo · with results
1698

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

    #778 of 1424 rated players on our board.

  • vs his seed

    The folded nights have cost him 18 points off his seed, kept on the record, like everything.

  • workload

    He barely leaves the pitch: 91′ a night across 4 folded appearances.

What he’d cost · our estimate

€2.1m€8.3m €4.2m

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 1663the level he plays at, the strongest signal of what a club pays
×1.72
ageage 33, past the fee-peak, value falls ~18% a year
×0.30
attacker fee factorstrikers set the market's top; midfield runs close; defence and goal at the record books' discounts
×1.00
individual skillour xG model has no confident read on him, priced on club, age and role only, so the band is wide
×1.00
our estimate
€4.2m

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

  • 2025-08-31Inter Olympiakos Piraeusundisclosed
  • 2024-07-13FC Porto Interfree
  • 2020-08-31Rio Ave FC Portoundisclosed
  • 2019-07-23Al-Gharafa Rio Avefree

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

In our coverage · Iran’s record

  • at Egypt1–2Called it
  • at Belgium0–0Missed it
  • v New Zealand2–2Missed it

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

Squad · sourced