Takefusa Kubo

Midfield, Japan

Club football at Real Sociedad de Fútbol.

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
24
sourced with the squad
position
Midfield
Japan
club
Real Sociedad de Fútbol
football-data.org
club tier
1669
ClubElo strength
our board
#611
of 1424 rated players
folded so far
1733′
27 appearances
npxG per 90
0.17
72th percentile of peers

On the pitch

Chances created for Japan, on the record.

goals
0
assists
1

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

Sourced

squad: Japan · Midfieldfootball-data.org · 2026-06-29
club: Real Sociedad de Fútbolfootball-data.org · 2026-06-29

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

Our rating · the working

the board →

1755 ±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

1761 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

potential ~1768 ±46 a projection, not a measurement: room left on the midfield age curve

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 Japan's strengththe fair club-over-national anchor, every player's starting point: 1735
age curve at 24 (midfields' curve)young-side discount halved, his measured production overrides the average-youngster prior: -7
attacking output in club football, our xG modelhis percentile among minutes-qualified peers, from club seasons: +27
quality rating · club, age + measured output: 1755
form: national-team results, 27 appearances1733 minutes, weighted by margin, surprise and his match stats, but shared across the XI: +6
full roster Elo · with results: 1761

Where the +27 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: 0.17 npxG per 90
his rank: 72th percentile of qualified peers
scored from: recent club seasons, every shot scored by our own xG model
the arithmetic: 46 pts/σ × z(72.1th) = 46 × 0.59 = +27

A forward-only shadow signal, as of 2026-06-14. 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
#611 of 1424 rated players on our board.

What he’d cost · our estimate

€8.8m–€34m ≈ €17m

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 1669the level he plays at, the strongest signal of what a club pays: ×1.76
ageage 24, in the fee-peak window (24–27): ×1.00
attacker fee factorstrikers set the market's top; midfield runs close; defence and goal at the record books' discounts: ×1.00
individual skillmeasured 72th percentile of peers: ×1.30
our estimate: ≈ €17m

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: €6.5m (2022-07). Our estimate today: ≈ €17m. The gap is evidence, many of them, together, recalibrate our model; no single one rewrites him.

our read: undervalued , we rate him 167% above his last market price (a gem signal, context only)

2022-07-19Real Madrid → Real Sociedad€6.5m
2022-07-01Mallorca → Real Madridundisclosed
2021-08-11Real Madrid → Mallorcaloan
2021-01-08Real Madrid → Getafeloan

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

In our coverage · Japan’s record

at Brazil2–1Called it
v Sweden1–1Missed it
at Tunisia0–4Called it
at Netherlands2–2Missed it

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