Maximiliano Araújo

Club football at Sporting Clube de Portugal.

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
25
sourced with the squad
position
Defence
Uruguay
club
Sporting Clube de Portugal
football-data.org
club tier
1848
ClubElo strength
our board
#221
of 1424 rated players
folded so far
3765′
48 appearances

On the pitch

Goals and assists for Uruguay, 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: Uruguay · Defencefootball-data.org · 2026-06-29
club: Sporting Clube de Portugalfootball-data.org · 2026-06-29

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

Our rating · the working

the board →

1880 ±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

1883 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 ~1883 ±45 a projection, not a measurement: room left on the defence 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 Uruguay's strengththe fair club-over-national anchor, every player's starting point: 1881
age curve at 25 (defences' curve)measured from the open archive by our own study (defenders: the published literature's shape), never fitted to our calls: -1
individual skill termour club xG models haven't seen enough of him for a confident read, so nothing is added, never guessed: +0
quality rating · club, age + measured output: 1880
form: national-team results, 48 appearances3765 minutes, weighted by margin, surprise and his match stats, but shared across the XI: +3
full roster Elo · with results: 1883

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.

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
#221 of 1424 rated players on our board.

What he’d cost · our estimate

€12m–€46m ≈ €23m

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 1848the level he plays at, the strongest signal of what a club pays: ×3.46
ageage 25, in the fee-peak window (24–27): ×1.00
midfielder fee factorstrikers set the market's top; midfield runs close; defence and goal at the record books' discounts: ×0.90
individual skillour xG model has no confident read on him, priced on club, age and role only, so the band is wide: ×1.00
our estimate: ≈ €23m

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: €14m (2024-08). Our estimate today: ≈ €23m. The gap is evidence, many of them, together, recalibrate our model; no single one rewrites him.

our read: undervalued , we rate him 71% above his last market price (a gem signal, context only)

2024-08-27Toluca → Sporting CP€14m
2023-01-01Puebla → Tolucaundisclosed
2020-01-01Wanderers → Pueblaundisclosed

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.