Midfield, Spain
Club football at Arsenal FC.
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
29
sourced with the squad
position
Midfield
Spain
club
Arsenal FC
football-data.org
club tier
2064
ClubElo strength
our board
#11
of 1424 rated players
folded so far
2133′
42 appearances
transfer market value (EUR millions), as a rank among peers
25.00
98th 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
30
minutes
1513′
goals and assists from our captured match events · caps and minutes from the appearance record
Sourced
- squad
- Spain · Midfieldfootball-data.org · 2026-06-29
- club
- Arsenal FCfootball-data.org · 2026-06-29
Sourced context, nothing more. It never touches a call.
Our rating · the working
the board →2090 ±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
2113 full roster Elo (+22 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
- 2058
- age curve at 29 (midfields' curve)measured from the open archive by our own study (defenders: the published literature's shape), never fitted to our calls
- -15
- transfer market value, a sourced market-consensus quality prior (the stronger reading for him here)his percentile among minutes-qualified peers, from club seasons
- +47
- quality rating · club, age + measured output
- 2090
- form: national-team results, 42 appearances2133 minutes, weighted by margin, surprise and his match stats, but shared across the XI
- +22
- full roster Elo · with results
- 2113
Rating trend
-134 over 43 updatesSeeded from his team’s rating, then moved by the matches he actually played. A shadow signal, it never touches a live call.
Where the +47 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
- 25.00 transfer market value (EUR millions), as a rank among peers
- his rank
- 98th 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(97.9th) = 46 × 2.03 × 0.5 (position weight) = +47
Where the +22 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.
- World Cup finals3 apps · 118′
- +2
- internationals, qualifiers & cups26 apps · 1373′
- +15
- international friendlies1 app · 22′
- -1
- club football12 apps · 620′
- +7
His latest nights
- 2026-06-27World Cup finals · 60′▲ +2
- 2026-06-21World Cup finals · 35′▲ +1
- 2026-06-15World Cup finals · 23′▼ −1
- 2026-06-04international friendlies · 22′ · team result only▼ −1
- 2026-05-24club football · 28′ · team result only▲ +1
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 2026-06-27. 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.
At this World Cup
What the tournament has done to his rating since the first whistle on 11 Jun, and the matches behind it. Each night’s move blends his team’s result with his own performance, shrunk for sample size, so a strong game nudges the number rather than spiking it.
▲ +2
3 appearances · 118′ · 3 graded by his own stats
The matches behind it
- 06-27won by 1 · 60′ · his stats graded▲ +2
- 06-21won by 4 · 35′ · his stats graded▲ +1
- 06-15drew · 23′ · his stats graded▼ −1
The same movement shown beside his name on the board, opened up. “Team result only” marks nights the feed carried no player stats. A forward-only shadow signal; it never touches 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
#11 of 1424 on our board, inside the top 1% of everyone we rate.
best night
His best night in our ledger: +8 in one sitting, internationals, qualifiers & cups, 2025-09-07.
vs his seed
The folded nights have added +22 to the number he seeded with, he has outplayed his own prior.
What he’d cost · our estimate
€26m–€101m ≈ €51m
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 2064the level he plays at, the strongest signal of what a club pays
- ×10.18
- ageage 29, past the fee-peak, value falls ~18% a year
- ×0.67
- midfielder fee factorstrikers set the market's top; midfield runs close; defence and goal at the record books' discounts
- ×0.90
- individual skillmeasured 67th percentile of peers
- ×1.15
- our estimate
- ≈ €51m
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: €32m (2024-08). Our estimate today: ≈ €51m. The gap is evidence, many of them, together, recalibrate our model; no single one rewrites him.
our read: undervalued , we rate him 59% above his last market price (a gem signal, context only)
- 2024-08-27Real Sociedad → Arsenal€32m
- 2018-07-12Newcastle → Real Sociedad€12m
- 2018-01-03Borussia Dortmund → Newcastle€7m
- 2017-07-28Borussia Dortmund → Newcastleloan
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