Central midfielders with the Best Potential

The highest-potential central midfielders, ranked on Field Insider.

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At a glance

Y. Minteh of Brighton is the standout for raw talent across central midfielders, with a Field Insider Rating of 93.5, and E. Havel has been the form player this season, grading 65.6, and Dor Peretz leads the scoring with 14 goals.

The numbers a scout watches are the year-on-year jumps: Gustavo Sauer has improved his Season rating most, up +50.1 on last season, while R. Bardghji's scouting Rating has risen fastest, +43.4 over the same span. Those are the players whose trajectory is bending upward fastest.

By our market-value index, Y. Minteh of Brighton is the most valuable name in this group at 110.8.

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	Player	Team
1	Y. Minteh Central midfielder	Brighton	22	4429.8%	942.7%
2	R. Yamamoto Central midfielder	SC Freiburg	24	63387.6%	8975.1%
3	M. Palestra Central midfielder	Chelsea	21	421895.2%	8721.7%
4	K. Thuram Central midfielder	Juventus	25	438.6%	844.5%
5	R. Bardghji Central midfielder	Barcelona	20	10	83110.2%
6	X. Simons Central midfielder	Tottenham	23	4418.3%	825.2%
7	I. Koné Central midfielder	Sassuolo	24	41487%	8225.6%
8	P. Kalulu Central midfielder	AC Milan	26	45±0%	810.7%
9	Diego López Central midfielder	Valencia	24	3034.9%	7910.8%
10	O. Vargas Central midfielder	Atletico Madrid	21	3915.2%	7864.8%
11	I. Chaira Central midfielder	Oviedo	25	4668.2%	7713.1%
12	W. Bondo Central midfielder	AC Milan	23	14240.5%	765.5%
13	J. Castrop Central midfielder	Borussia Mönchengladbach	23	379.9%	7511.2%
14	T. Baldanzi Central midfielder	AS Roma	23	15±0%	745.1%
15	Breno Central midfielder	Corinthians	21	3627%	745.6%
16	Pablo Marín Central midfielder	Real Sociedad	23	1333.5%	745.7%
17	Victor Hugo Central midfielder	Atletico-MG	22	45	7435.4%
18	G. Oristanio Central midfielder	Torino	23	970.8%	7212.7%
19	A. Touré Central midfielder	Metz	20	20185.7%	7121%
20	Gabriel Bontempo Central midfielder	Santos	21	2938.9%	719.8%
21	Matheuzinho Central midfielder	Corinthians	26	446.3%	7114.6%
22	Martinelli Central midfielder	Fluminense	24	358.3%	702%
23	A. Gómez Central midfielder	Vasco DA Gama	24	51208.5%	6916.2%
24	A. Bernabéi Central midfielder	Internacional	25	5577%	693.9%
25	Hércules Central midfielder	Fluminense	25	4018.9%	69±0%
26	I. Gruev Central midfielder	Leeds	26	2226.6%	686.9%
27	Carlos Dotor Central midfielder	Celta Vigo	25	30±0%	684%
28	Cauan Barros Central midfielder	Vasco DA Gama	22	46145.7%	688.3%
29	Evertton Araújo Central midfielder	Flamengo	23	2287%	686.3%
30	H. Nicolussi Central midfielder	Parma	26	2365.2%	6717.8%
31	G. Justino Central midfielder	Botafogo	19	19	67
32	C. Medina Central midfielder	Botafogo	24	3051%	6632.5%
33	Huguinho Central midfielder	Botafogo	19	21±0%	6548.1%
34	Y. Massolin Central midfielder	Cagliari	24	286.3%	6542.2%
35	A. Oehlers Central midfielder	FC Luzern	22	2436.8%	6517.4%
36	O. Pietuszewski Central midfielder	FC Porto	18	16	6588.6%
37	Rodriguinho Central midfielder	RB Bragantino	22	22309.3%	656.4%
38	D. Bobadilla Central midfielder	Sao Paulo	25	374.4%	644.2%
39	Cajetan Benjamin Lenz Central midfielder	1899 Hoffenheim	20	35	64
40	E. Noriega Central midfielder	Gremio	24	33263.3%	646%
41	L. Chambers Central midfielder	Liverpool	22	110.9%	6449.4%
42	E. Leopold Central midfielder	Borussia Mönchengladbach	26	569.1%	644.8%
43	J. Knight Central midfielder	Bristol City	25	22±0%	64±0%
44	R. Edwards Central midfielder	QPR	23	20±0%	64±0%
45	A. Bassinga Central midfielder	Las Palmas	21	146900%	6412%
46	R. Villagra Central midfielder	Internacional	25	19739.1%	63136.6%
47	D. Gyabi Central midfielder	Hull City	22	1066.9%	634.7%
48	A. Dønnum Central midfielder	Toulouse	28	5312.1%	6211.9%
49	Ruben Müller Central midfielder	SC Paderborn 07	21	16	62
50	C. Bonsu Baah Central midfielder	Al-Qadisiyah FC	21	43±0%	62±0%