Midfield, Portugal
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
29
sourced with the squad
position
Midfield
Portugal
club
Real Sociedad de Fútbol
football-data.org
club tier
1669
ClubElo strength
our board
#450
of 1424 rated players
folded so far
1884′
33 appearances
npxG per 90
0.21
78th percentile of peers
On the pitch
Minutes on the pitch for Portugal. The goals come or they do not; we log either.
goals
0
assists
0
caps
1
minutes
45′
goals and assists from our captured match events · caps and minutes from the appearance record
Sourced
- squad
- Portugal · 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 →1793 ±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
1834 full roster Elo (+41 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 Portugal's strengththe fair club-over-national anchor, every player's starting point
- 1765
- age curve at 29 (midfields' curve)measured from the open archive by our own study (defenders: the published literature's shape), never fitted to our calls
- -6
- attacking output in club football, our xG modelhis percentile among minutes-qualified peers, from club seasons
- +35
- quality rating · club, age + measured output
- 1793
- form: national-team results, 33 appearances1884 minutes, weighted by margin, surprise and his match stats, but shared across the XI
- +41
- full roster Elo · with results
- 1834
Rating trend
+111 over 34 updatesSeeded from his team’s rating, then moved by the matches he actually played. A shadow signal, it never touches a live call.
Where the +35 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
- 0.21 npxG per 90
- his rank
- 78th percentile of qualified peers
- scored from
- recent club seasons, every shot scored by our own xG model
- the arithmetic
- 46 pts/σ × z(77.5th) = 46 × 0.76 = +35
Where the +41 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.
- international friendlies1 app · 45′
- +1
- club football32 apps · 1839′
- +40
His latest nights
- 2026-06-06international friendlies · 45′ · team result only▲ +1
- 2026-05-17club football · 11′ · team result only▼ −1
- 2026-04-11club football · 45′ · team result only▼ −1
- 2026-04-04club football · 85′ · team result only▲ +5
- 2026-03-20club football · 90′ · team result only▼ −3
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 2026-06-06. 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
#450 of 1424 rated players on our board.
best night
His best night in our ledger: +9 in one sitting, club football, 2026-01-18.
vs his seed
The folded nights have added +41 to the number he seeded with, he has outplayed his own prior.
What he’d cost · our estimate
€6.4m–€25m ≈ €13m
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 29, past the fee-peak, value falls ~18% a year
- ×0.67
- attacker fee factorstrikers set the market's top; midfield runs close; defence and goal at the record books' discounts
- ×1.00
- individual skillmeasured 78th percentile of peers
- ×1.39
- our estimate
- ≈ €13m
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: €33m (2022-08). Our estimate today: ≈ €13m. The gap is evidence, many of them, together, recalibrate our model; no single one rewrites him.
our read: richly priced , we rate him 61% below his last market price (a gem signal, context only)
- 2025-08-04Wolves → Real Sociedadundisclosed
- 2024-07-01Villarreal → Wolvesundisclosed
- 2024-01-19Wolves → Villarrealloan
- 2023-08-29Wolves → Benficaloan
Reported moves, dated and attributed (api-football.com), news facts, not a valuation site’s estimates. It never touches a call.
In our coverage · Portugal’s record
- at Colombia0–0Missed it
- v Uzbekistan5–0Called it
- v DR Congo1–1Missed it
The newsroom’s calls on Portugal. Team-level, never dressed up as a player stat.
Squad · sourced