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Ismaïla Sarr

Senegal · the desk

Midfield, Senegal

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

    27

    sourced with the squad

  • position

    Midfield

    Senegal

  • our board

    #238

    of 1424 rated players

  • folded so far

    1800′

    24 appearances

  • npxG per 90

    0.31

    89th percentile of peers

On the pitch

Goals and assists for Senegal, on the record and counted.

  • goals

    3

  • assists

    1

goals and assists from our captured match events · caps and minutes from the appearance record

Sourced

squad
Senegal · Midfieldfootball-data.org · 2026-06-29

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

Our rating · the working

the board →

1872 ±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

1876 full roster Elo (+5 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 ~1881 ±45 a projection, not a measurement: room left on the midfield 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 Senegal's strengththe fair club-over-national anchor, every player's starting point
1818
age curve at 27 (midfields' curve)young-side discount halved, his measured production overrides the average-youngster prior
-4
attacking output in club football, our xG modelhis percentile among minutes-qualified peers, from club seasons
+57
quality rating · club, age + measured output
1872
form: national-team results, 24 appearances1800 minutes, weighted by margin, surprise and his match stats, but shared across the XI
+5
full roster Elo · with results
1876

Where the +57 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
0.31 npxG per 90
his rank
89th percentile of qualified peers
scored from
recent club seasons, every shot scored by our own xG model
the arithmetic
46 pts/σ × z(89.4th) = 46 × 1.25 = +57

A forward-only shadow signal, as of 2026-06-26. 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

    #238 of 1424 rated players on our board.

What he’d cost · our estimate

We don’t price him yet. Our fee model leans on the level he plays at, and no trusted source has given us his club’s strength. We’d rather show nothing than a number we don’t trust.

The fee record · sourced

The market’s last public word: €15m (2024-08). The gap is evidence, many of them, together, recalibrate our model; no single one rewrites him.

  • 2024-08-01Marseille → Crystal Palace€15m
  • 2023-07-24Watford → Marseille€13m
  • 2019-08-08Rennes → Watfordundisclosed
  • 2017-07-26Metz → Rennes€16m

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

In our coverage · Senegal’s record

  • at BelgiumSealed
  • v Iraq5–0Called it
  • at Norway3–2Called it
  • at France3–1Called it

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

Squad · sourced