Merchas Doski

Defence, Iraq

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
26
sourced with the squad
position
Defence
Iraq
our board
#1187
of 1424 rated players
folded so far
1776′
21 appearances
transfer market value (EUR millions), as a rank among peers
1.70
74th percentile of peers

On the pitch

Minutes on the pitch for Iraq. The goals come or they do not; we log either.

goals
0
assists
0
caps
21
minutes
1776′

goals and assists from our captured match events · caps and minutes from the appearance record

Sourced

squad: Iraq · Defencefootball-data.org · 2026-06-29

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

Our rating · the working

the board →

1569 ±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

1583 full roster Elo (+15 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 Iraq's strengththe fair club-over-national anchor, every player's starting point: 1556
age curve at 26 (defences' curve)the position's measured peak, no discount either way: +0
transfer market value, a sourced market-consensus quality prior (the stronger reading for him here)his percentile among minutes-qualified peers, from club seasons: +12
quality rating · club, age + measured output: 1569
form: national-team results, 21 appearances1776 minutes, weighted by margin, surprise and his match stats, but shared across the XI: +15
full roster Elo · with results: 1583

Rating trend

-166 over 22 updates

Seeded from his team’s rating, then moved by the matches he actually played. A shadow signal, it never touches a live call.

Where the +12 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: 1.70 transfer market value (EUR millions), as a rank among peers
his rank: 74th 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(74.5th) = 46 × 0.66 × 0.4 (position weight) = +12

Where the +15 was earned

The earned line, opened up by competition. World Cup finals count 1.5×, qualifiers and cups 1×, friendlies and club football half, so a tournament night moves him most.

World Cup finals3 apps · 280′: -11
internationals, qualifiers & cups17 apps · 1435′: +24
international friendlies1 app · 61′: +2

His latest nights

2026-06-26World Cup finals · 95′▼ −9
2026-06-22World Cup finals · 90′▲ +1
2026-06-16World Cup finals · 95′▼ −4
2026-06-04international friendlies · 61′ · team result only▲ +2
2025-11-18internationals, qualifiers & cups · 90′ · team result only▲ +8

Each night’s move blends his team’s result with his own match stats, saves for keepers, tackles and duels for defenders, creation for midfielders, finishing up front. “Team result only” marks games where the feed carried no player stats.

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.

At this World Cup

What the tournament has done to his rating since the first whistle on 11 Jun, and the matches behind it. Each night’s move blends his team’s result with his own performance, shrunk for sample size, so a strong game nudges the number rather than spiking it.

▼ −11

3 appearances · 280′ · 3 graded by his own stats

The matches behind it

06-26lost by 5 · 95′ · his stats graded▼ −9
06-22lost by 3 · 90′ · his stats graded▲ +1
06-16lost by 3 · 95′ · his stats graded▼ −4

The same movement shown beside his name on the board, opened up. “Team result only” marks nights the feed carried no player stats. A forward-only shadow signal; it never touches 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
#1187 of 1424 rated players on our board.
best night
His best night in our ledger: +11 in one sitting, internationals, qualifiers & cups, 2025-06-10.
vs his seed
The folded nights have added +15 to the number he seeded with, he has outplayed his own prior.

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

2025-01-26Slovácko → Plzenundisclosed
2024-12-31Slovácko → Plzenundisclosed
2022-07-01Wacker Innsbruck → Slováckofree

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

In our coverage · Iraq’s record

at Senegal5–0Called it
at France3–0Called it
v Norway1–4Called it

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