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Ayoub El Kaabi

Morocco · the desk

Offence, Morocco

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

    32

    sourced with the squad

  • position

    Offence

    Morocco

  • club

    PAE Olympiakos SFP

    football-data.org

  • club tier

    1663

    ClubElo strength

  • our board

    #795

    of 1424 rated players

  • folded so far

    295′

    9 appearances

Sourced

squad
Morocco · 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

1712 ±62

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

1714 full roster Elo (+1 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 Morocco's strengththe fair club-over-national anchor, every player's starting point
1732
age curve at 32 (offences' curve)measured from the open archive by our own study (defenders: the published literature's shape), never fitted to our calls
-19
individual skill termour club xG models haven't seen enough of him for a confident read, so nothing is added, never guessed
+0
quality rating · club, age + measured output
1712
form: national-team results, 9 appearances295 minutes, weighted by margin, surprise and his match stats, but shared across the XI
+1
full roster Elo · with results
1714

A forward-only shadow signal, as of 2026-06-24. 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

    #795 of 1424 rated players on our board.

What he’d cost · our estimate

€2.6m€10m €5.1m

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 32, past the fee-peak, value falls ~18% a year
×0.37
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
€5.1m

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: €5m (2018-07). Our estimate today: ≈ €5.1m. The gap is evidence, many of them, together, recalibrate our model; no single one rewrites him.

  • 2023-08-06Al Sadd Olympiakos Piraeusfree
  • 2023-03-02Hatayspor Al Saddundisclosed
  • 2021-08-20Wydad AC Hataysporfree
  • 2019-07-20Hebei Zhongji Wydad ACloan

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

In our coverage · Morocco’s record

  • at NetherlandsSealed
  • v Haiti4–2Called it
  • at Scotland0–1Called it
  • at Brazil1–1Missed it

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

Squad · sourced