José Giménez

Club football at Club Atlético de Madrid.

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
Uruguay
club
Club Atlético de Madrid
football-data.org
club tier
1828
ClubElo strength
our board
#196
of 1424 rated players
folded so far
1973′
26 appearances
possession-adjusted defensive actions per 90 (tackles + interceptions + blocks)
5.00
94th percentile of peers

Sourced

squad: Uruguay · Defencefootball-data.org · 2026-06-29
club: Club Atlético de Madridfootball-data.org · 2026-06-29

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

Our rating · the working

the board →

1895 ±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

1876 full roster Elo (−19 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 Uruguay's strengththe fair club-over-national anchor, every player's starting point: 1866
age curve at 30 (defences' curve)the position's measured peak, no discount either way: +0
defensive actions in club football, possession-adjustedhis percentile among minutes-qualified peers, from club seasons: +29
quality rating · club, age + measured output: 1895
form: national-team results, 26 appearances1973 minutes, weighted by margin, surprise and his match stats, but shared across the XI: -19
full roster Elo · with results: 1876

Where the +29 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: 5.00 possession-adjusted defensive actions per 90 (tackles + interceptions + blocks)
his rank: 94th percentile of qualified peers
scored from: recent club seasons (api-football), an individual box-stat proxy, possession-adjusted; volume, not a quality verdict
the arithmetic: 46 pts/σ × z(94.4th) = 46 × 1.59 × 0.4 (position weight) = +29

A forward-only shadow signal, as of 2026-05-09. 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
#196 of 1424 rated players on our board.
vs his seed
The folded nights have cost him 19 points off his seed, kept on the record, like everything.

What he’d cost · our estimate

€5.7m–€22m ≈ €11m

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 1828the level he plays at, the strongest signal of what a club pays: ×3.13
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 94th percentile of peers: ×1.46
our estimate: ≈ €11m

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: €1m (2013-07). Our estimate today: ≈ €11m. The gap is evidence, many of them, together, recalibrate our model; no single one rewrites him.

our read: undervalued , we rate him 1024% above his last market price (a gem signal, context only)

2013-07-01Danubio → Atletico Madrid€1m

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

In our coverage · Uruguay’s record

v Spain0–1Called it
v Cape Verde2–2Missed it
at Saudi Arabia1–1Missed it

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