Looks like a free agent, so definately no Nordgen. For free agents I wouldn't normally go to 8 ko rounds, unless he trains fast and he's close to his next star. The player looks to be just that, judging by his wage/MV ratio, allthough with ultra low wages (lvl1-2) you can't be entirely sure. If he wasn't a fast trainer you could also buy free agents to exchange Tokens for ingame cash. You could check out how much a bankloan would set you back and then compare to what you've just paid in Tokens for your player, in your case 8T for 1M+ cash.

For me this would be an interesting player, I like my bench with 3-4* fasttrainers, but probably wouldn't have paid 8 Tokens for him as I'm on 35T/season. Why don't you post some results of a cardio/practicematch training on hard of this player?