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Dominic Hyam

Scotland · the desk

Defence, Scotland

Club football at Wrexham AFC.

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

    30

    sourced with the squad

  • position

    Defence

    Scotland

  • club

    Wrexham AFC

    football-data.org

  • club tier

    1527

    ClubElo strength

  • our board

    #1108

    of 1424 rated players

  • folded so far

    146′

    4 appearances

Sourced

squad
Scotland · Defencefootball-data.org · 2026-06-29
club
Wrexham AFCfootball-data.org · 2026-06-25

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

Our rating · the working

the board

1593 ±70

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

1591 full roster Elo (3 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 Scotland's strengththe fair club-over-national anchor, every player's starting point
1593
age curve at 30 (defences' curve)the position's measured peak, no discount either way
+0
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
1593
form: national-team results, 4 appearances146 minutes, weighted by margin, surprise and his match stats, but shared across the XI
-3
full roster Elo · with results
1591

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

    #1108 of 1424 rated players on our board.

What he’d cost · our estimate

€1.5m€5.7m €2.9m

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 1527the level he plays at, the strongest signal of what a club pays
×1.09
ageage 30, past the fee-peak, value falls ~18% a year
×0.55
defender fee factorstrikers set the market's top; midfield runs close; defence and goal at the record books' discounts
×0.58
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
€2.9m

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

  • 2025-09-01Blackburn Wrexhamundisclosed
  • 2025-08-30Blackburn Wrexhamundisclosed
  • 2022-08-28Coventry Blackburnundisclosed
  • 2017-07-01Reading Coventryfree

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

In our coverage · Scotland’s record

  • v Brazil0–3Called it
  • v Morocco0–1Called it
  • at Haiti0–1Called it

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

Squad · sourced