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Borja Iglesias

Spain · the desk

Offence, Spain

Club football at RC Celta de Vigo.

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

    32

    sourced with the squad

  • position

    Offence

    Spain

  • club

    RC Celta de Vigo

    football-data.org

  • club tier

    1701

    ClubElo strength

  • our board

    #322

    of 1424 rated players

  • folded so far

    1268′

    27 appearances

  • npxG per 90

    0.37

    94th percentile of peers

On the pitch

Minutes on the pitch for Spain. The goals come or they do not; we log either.

  • goals

    0

  • assists

    0

  • caps

    5

  • minutes

    158′

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

Sourced

squad
Spain · Offencefootball-data.org · 2026-06-29
club
RC Celta de Vigofootball-data.org · 2026-06-29

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

Our rating · the working

the board

1838 ±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

1831 full roster Elo (7 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 Spain's strengththe fair club-over-national anchor, every player's starting point
1786
age curve at 32 (offences' curve)measured from the open archive by our own study (defenders: the published literature's shape), never fitted to our calls
-19
attacking output in club football, our xG modelhis percentile among minutes-qualified peers, from club seasons
+72
quality rating · club, age + measured output
1838
form: national-team results, 27 appearances1268 minutes, weighted by margin, surprise and his match stats, but shared across the XI
-7
full roster Elo · with results
1831

Rating trend

-137 over 29 updates

Seeded from his team’s rating, then moved by the matches he actually played. A shadow signal, it never touches a live call.

Where the +72 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
0.37 npxG per 90
his rank
94th percentile of qualified peers
scored from
recent club seasons, every shot scored by our own xG model
the arithmetic
46 pts/σ × z(94.1th) = 46 × 1.56 = +72

Where the -7 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.

internationals, qualifiers & cups4 apps · 113
-6
international friendlies1 app · 45
-2
club football23 apps · 1177
+1

His latest nights

  • 2026-06-04international friendlies · 45 · team result only▼ −2
  • 2026-05-23club football · 74 · team result only▲ +3
  • 2026-05-17club football · 59 · team result only▼ −0
  • 2026-05-12club football · 24 · team result only▼ −2
  • 2026-05-09club football · 68 · team result only▲ +6

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 2026-06-04. 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

    #322 of 1424 rated players on our board.

  • best night

    His best night in our ledger: +13 in one sitting, club football, 2025-12-07.

  • the rough one

    The night that cost him most: −7 – internationals, qualifiers & cups, 2023-03-28. We don't erase those.

What he’d cost · our estimate

€4.8m€19m €9.5m

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 1701the level he plays at, the strongest signal of what a club pays
×1.95
ageage 32, past the fee-peak, value falls ~18% a year
×0.37
attacker fee factorstrikers set the market's top; midfield runs close; defence and goal at the record books' discounts
×1.00
individual skillmeasured 94th percentile of peers
×1.70
our estimate
€9.5m

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: €28m (2019-08). Our estimate today: ≈ €9.5m. The gap is evidence, many of them, together, recalibrate our model; no single one rewrites him.

our read: richly priced , we rate him 66% below his last market price (a gem signal, context only)

  • 2025-08-12Real Betis Celta Vigoundisclosed
  • 2025-07-01Celta Vigo Real Betisloan
  • 2024-07-19Real Betis Celta Vigoloan
  • 2024-07-01Bayer Leverkusen Real Betisundisclosed

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

In our coverage · Spain’s record

  • at Uruguay0–1Called it
  • v Saudi Arabia5–0Called it
  • v Cape Verde0–0Missed it

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

Squad · sourced