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Ruben Vargas

Switzerland · the desk

Midfield, Switzerland

Club football at Sevilla 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

    27

    sourced with the squad

  • position

    Midfield

    Switzerland

  • club

    Sevilla FC

    football-data.org

  • club tier

    1626

    ClubElo strength

  • our board

    #671

    of 1424 rated players

  • folded so far

    2251′

    35 appearances

  • npxG + xA per 90

    0.31

    82th percentile of peers

On the pitch

Goals and assists for Switzerland, 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
Switzerland · Midfieldfootball-data.org · 2026-06-29
club
Sevilla FCfootball-data.org · 2026-06-29

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

Our rating · the working

the board

1742 ±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

1739 full roster Elo (3 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 ~1743 ±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 Switzerland's strengththe fair club-over-national anchor, every player's starting point
1704
age curve at 27 (midfields' curve)young-side discount halved, his measured production overrides the average-youngster prior
-4
attacking output, our xG modelhis percentile among minutes-qualified peers, from club seasons
+42
quality rating · club, age + measured output
1742
form: national-team results, 35 appearances2251 minutes, weighted by margin, surprise and his match stats, but shared across the XI
-3
full roster Elo · with results
1739

Where the +42 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 + xA per 90
his rank
82th percentile of qualified peers
scored from
the open StatsBomb archive, every shot scored by our own xG model
the arithmetic
46 pts/σ × z(81.9th) = 46 × 0.91 = +42

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

    #671 of 1424 rated players on our board.

What he’d cost · our estimate

€8.6m€33m €17m

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 1626the level he plays at, the strongest signal of what a club pays
×1.52
ageage 27, in the fee-peak window (24–27)
×1.00
attacker fee factorstrikers set the market's top; midfield runs close; defence and goal at the record books' discounts
×1.00
individual skillmeasured 82th percentile of peers
×1.47
our estimate
€17m

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: €2.5m (2019-07). Our estimate today: ≈ €17m. The gap is evidence, many of them, together, recalibrate our model; no single one rewrites him.

our read: undervalued , we rate him 577% above his last market price (a gem signal, context only)

  • 2025-01-10FC Augsburg Sevillaundisclosed
  • 2019-07-01FC Luzern FC Augsburg€2.5m

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