Elijah Just
Offence, New Zealand
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
25
sourced with the squad
position
Offence
New Zealand
club tier
1390
ClubElo strength
our board
#1159
of 1424 rated players
folded so far
346′
4 appearances
transfer market value (EUR millions), as a rank among peers
2.50
81th percentile of peers
On the pitch
Goals for New Zealand, on the record and counted.
goals
3
assists
0
goals and assists from our captured match events · caps and minutes from the appearance record
Sourced
- squad
- New Zealand · Offencefootball-data.org · 2026-06-29
Sourced context, nothing more. It never touches a call.
Our rating · the working
the board →1576 ±60
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
1569 full roster Elo (−7 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 ~1569 ±60 a projection, not a measurement: room left on the offence 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 New Zealand's strengththe fair club-over-national anchor, every player's starting point
- 1557
- age curve at 25 (offences' curve)measured from the open archive by our own study (defenders: the published literature's shape), never fitted to our calls
- -1
- transfer market value, a sourced market-consensus quality prior (the stronger reading for him here)his percentile among minutes-qualified peers, from club seasons
- +20
- quality rating · club, age + measured output
- 1576
- form: national-team results, 4 appearances346 minutes, weighted by margin, surprise and his match stats, but shared across the XI
- -7
- full roster Elo · with results
- 1569
Where the +20 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
- 2.50 transfer market value (EUR millions), as a rank among peers
- his rank
- 81th 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(80.5th) = 46 × 0.86 × 0.5 (position weight) = +20
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
#1159 of 1424 rated players on our board.
workload
He barely leaves the pitch: 87′ a night across 4 folded appearances.
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 1390the level he plays at, the strongest signal of what a club pays
- ×0.69
- ageage 25, in the fee-peak window (24–27)
- ×1.00
- midfielder fee factorstrikers set the market's top; midfield runs close; defence and goal at the record books' discounts
- ×0.90
- 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
- 2025-07-09AC Horsens → Motherwellundisclosed
- 2025-07-01SKN ST. Polten → AC Horsensloan
- 2025-06-29SKN ST. Polten → AC Horsensloan
- 2024-08-21AC Horsens → SKN ST. Poltenloan
Reported moves, dated and attributed (api-football.com), news facts, not a valuation site’s estimates. It never touches a call.
In our coverage · New Zealand’s record
- v Belgium1–5Called it
- v Egypt1–3Called it
- at Iran2–2Missed it
The newsroom’s calls on New Zealand. Team-level, never dressed up as a player stat.
Squad · sourced
- Alex Paulsen
- Alex Rufer
- Ben Old
- Ben Waine
- Callan Elliot
- Callum McCowatt
- Chris Wood
- Finn Surman
- Francis De Vries
- Jesse Randall
- Joe Bell
- Kosta Barbarouses
- Lachlan Bayliss
- Liberato Cacace
- Logan Rogerson
- Marko Stamenic
- Max Crocombe
- Michael Boxall
- Michael Woud
- Nando Pijnaker
- Ryan Thomas
- Sarpreet Singh
- Tim Payne
- Tommy Smith
- Tyler Bindon