Defence, Scotland
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
28
sourced with the squad
position
Defence
Scotland
club tier
1575
ClubElo strength
our board
#1077
of 1424 rated players
folded so far
734′
15 appearances
transfer market value (EUR millions), as a rank among peers
8.00
93th percentile of peers
Sourced
- squad
- Scotland · Defencefootball-data.org · 2026-06-29
Sourced context, nothing more. It never touches a call.
Our rating · the working
the board →1600 ±49
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
1601 full roster Elo (+2 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
- 1573
- age curve at 28 (defences' curve)the position's measured peak, no discount either way
- +0
- transfer market value, a sourced market-consensus quality prior (the stronger reading for him here)his percentile among minutes-qualified peers, from club seasons
- +27
- quality rating · club, age + measured output
- 1600
- form: national-team results, 15 appearances734 minutes, weighted by margin, surprise and his match stats, but shared across the XI
- +2
- full roster Elo · with results
- 1601
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
- 8.00 transfer market value (EUR millions), as a rank among peers
- his rank
- 93th 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(92.7th) = 46 × 1.45 × 0.4 (position weight) = +27
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
#1077 of 1424 rated players on our board.
What he’d cost · our estimate
€2.5m–€9.7m ≈ €4.9m
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 1575the level he plays at, the strongest signal of what a club pays
- ×1.28
- ageage 28, past the fee-peak, value falls ~18% a year
- ×0.82
- 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
- ≈ €4.9m
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
The market’s last public word: €27m (2019-08). Our estimate today: ≈ €4.9m. The gap is evidence, many of them, together, recalibrate our model; no single one rewrites him.
our read: richly priced , we rate him 82% below his last market price (a gem signal, context only)
- 2025-07-01Arsenal → Celticfree
- 2024-07-01Real Sociedad → Arsenalundisclosed
- 2023-08-27Arsenal → Real Sociedadloan
- 2019-08-08Celtic → Arsenal€27m
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
- Aaron Hickey
- Andrew Robertson
- Angus Gunn
- Anthony Ralston
- Ben Doak
- Che Adams
- Craig Gordon
- Dominic Hyam
- Findlay Curtis
- George Hirst
- Grant Hanley
- Jack Hendry
- John McGinn
- John Souttar
- Kenny McLean
- Lawrence Shankland
- Lewis Ferguson
- Liam Kelly
- Lyndon Dykes
- Nathan Patterson
- Ross Stewart
- Ryan Christie
- Scott McKenna
- Scott McTominay
- Tyler Fletcher