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Senegal · the desk

Midfield, Senegal

Club football at Villarreal CF.

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

    26

    sourced with the squad

  • position

    Midfield

    Senegal

  • club

    Villarreal CF

    football-data.org

  • club tier

    1759

    ClubElo strength

  • our board

    #428

    of 1424 rated players

  • folded so far

    1972′

    26 appearances

  • npxG per 90

    0.18

    74th percentile of peers

On the pitch

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

  • goals

    2

  • 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
club
Villarreal CFfootball-data.org · 2026-06-29

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

Our rating · the working

the board →

1799 ±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

1788 full roster Elo (−11 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 Senegal's strengththe fair club-over-national anchor, every player's starting point
1785
age curve at 26 (midfields' curve)the position's measured peak, no discount either way
+0
attacking output in club football, our xG modelhis percentile among minutes-qualified peers, from club seasons
+15
quality rating · club, age + measured output
1799
form: national-team results, 26 appearances1972 minutes, weighted by margin, surprise and his match stats, but shared across the XI
-11
full roster Elo · with results
1788

Where the +15 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
0.18 npxG per 90
his rank
74th percentile of qualified peers
scored from
recent club seasons, every shot scored by our own xG model
the arithmetic
46 pts/σ × z(73.8th) = 46 × 0.64 × 0.5 (position weight) = +15

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

    #428 of 1424 rated players on our board.

  • vs his seed

    The folded nights have cost him 11 points off his seed, kept on the record, like everything.

What he’d cost · our estimate

€10m–€39m ≈ €20m

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 1759the level he plays at, the strongest signal of what a club pays
×2.37
ageage 26, 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 skillmeasured 74th percentile of peers
×1.22
our estimate
≈ €20m

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

  • 2024-07-05Marseille → Villarrealfree
  • 2023-07-01Sevilla → Marseilleundisclosed
  • 2023-01-30Marseille → Sevillaloan
  • 2020-07-01Le Havre → Marseillefree

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