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Manuel Akanji

Switzerland · the desk

Defence, Switzerland

Club football at FC Internazionale Milano.

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

    30

    sourced with the squad

  • position

    Defence

    Switzerland

  • club

    FC Internazionale Milano

    football-data.org

  • club tier

    1889

    ClubElo strength

  • our board

    #135

    of 1424 rated players

  • folded so far

    4339′

    50 appearances

  • transfer market value (EUR millions), as a rank among peers

    17.00

    96th percentile of peers

Sourced

squad
Switzerland · Defencefootball-data.org · 2026-06-29
club
FC Internazionale Milanofootball-data.org · 2026-06-29

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

Our rating · the working

the board

1934 ±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

1925 full roster Elo (9 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 Switzerland's strengththe fair club-over-national anchor, every player's starting point
1901
age curve at 30 (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
+33
quality rating · club, age + measured output
1934
form: national-team results, 50 appearances4339 minutes, weighted by margin, surprise and his match stats, but shared across the XI
-9
full roster Elo · with results
1925

Where the +33 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
17.00 transfer market value (EUR millions), as a rank among peers
his rank
96th 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(96.3th) = 46 × 1.79 × 0.4 (position weight) = +33

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

    #135 of 1424 on our board, top 10% of everyone we rate.

  • workload

    He barely leaves the pitch: 87′ a night across 50 folded appearances.

What he’d cost · our estimate

€6.7m€26m €13m

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 1889the level he plays at, the strongest signal of what a club pays
×4.24
ageage 30, past the fee-peak, value falls ~18% a year
×0.55
defender fee factorstrikers set the market's top; midfield runs close; defence and goal at the record books' discounts
×0.58
individual skillmeasured 78th percentile of peers
×1.27
our estimate
€13m

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: €18m (2022-09). Our estimate today: ≈ €13m. The gap is evidence, many of them, together, recalibrate our model; no single one rewrites him.

our read: richly priced , we rate him 25% below his last market price (a gem signal, context only)

  • 2025-09-01Manchester City Internazionaleloan
  • 2025-08-31Manchester City Interloan
  • 2022-09-01Borussia Dortmund Manchester City€18m
  • 2018-01-15FC Basel 1893 Borussia Dortmund€22m

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

In our coverage · Switzerland’s record

  • v Canada2–1Missed it
  • v Bosnia & Herzegovina4–1Called it
  • at Qatar1–1Missed it

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

Squad · sourced