Central midfielders with the Best Potential in Championship 26/27

The highest-potential central midfielders in Championship in 26/27, ranked on Field Insider.

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At a glance

K. Lund of Birmingham is the standout for raw talent across central midfielders in Championship, with a Field Insider Rating of 73.1, and Ronald has been the form player this season, grading 42.5, and T. Souček leads the scoring with 5 goals.

The numbers a scout watches are the year-on-year jumps: B. Khela has improved his Season rating most, up +22.6 on last season. Those are the players whose trajectory is bending upward fastest.

By our market-value index, K. Lund of Birmingham is the most valuable name in this group at 33.9.

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	Player	Team
1	K. Lund Central midfielder	Birmingham	24	2827.6%	7319.2%
2	Ronald Central midfielder	Swansea	25	4360.4%	712.7%
3	D. Mazou-Sacko Central midfielder	Millwall	21	1958.3%	6619.4%
4	H. Clarke Central midfielder	Preston	25	16±0%	637.9%
5	D. Gyabi Central midfielder	Hull City	22	1066.9%	634.7%
6	L. Gibbs Central midfielder	Norwich	23	111144.4%	607.1%
7	K. Dembélé Central midfielder	QPR	23	1132.7%	608.8%
8	T. Gardner-Hickman Central midfielder	Birmingham	24	1441.7%	6021.8%
9	F. Bianchini Central midfielder	Swansea	25	106.8%	594.9%
10	R. Apter Central midfielder	Charlton	23	782.6%	577.6%
11	A. Wan-Bissaka Central midfielder	West Ham	28	2966.3%	5731.1%
12	M. Leonard Central midfielder	Birmingham	24	763.4%	5618.3%
13	L. Cacace Central midfielder	Wrexham	25	480.3%	5527.7%
14	A. Henriksson Central midfielder	Blackburn	24	585.7%	5542.2%
15	M. Kosznovszky Central midfielder	Portsmouth	24	4457.1%	5414.5%
16	D. De Neve Central midfielder	Blackburn	25	1035.1%	53±0%
17	B. Khela Central midfielder	Birmingham	21	3313.4%	50±0%
18	J. Cotterill Central midfielder	Swansea	20	1058%	4634.7%
19	B. Sheaf Central midfielder	Wrexham	28	1346.5%	4522.5%
20	X. Simons Central midfielder	Hull City	23	2128%	4526.1%
21	C. Campbell Central midfielder	Wolves	23	1814%	457.2%
22	J. Cullen Central midfielder	Burnley	30	3120.8%	4422.7%
23	R. Shein Central midfielder	Portsmouth	23	2911.2%	431.4%
24	T. Souček Central midfielder	West Ham	31	4130.2%	4227.6%
25	F. Myhre Central midfielder	West Brom	27	391%	402.3%
26	J. Randall Central midfielder	Bolton	26	870.5%	3720.8%
27	E. Ukaki Central midfielder	Sheffield Utd	21	13	37
28	H. Morita Central midfielder	Hull City	31	3626.6%	3513.9%
29	B. Lloyd Central midfielder	Swansea	21	30	3341.5%
30	A. Ömür Central midfielder	Hull City	27	17236.7%	3239.8%
31	T. McDermott Central midfielder	Burnley	21	19	3219.1%
32	J. Swift Central midfielder	Portsmouth	31	235.1%	3026.5%
33	J. Bauress Central midfielder	Burnley	20	7	29
34	B. Pearson Central midfielder	Stoke City	31	18314%	2911.3%
35	K. Anderson Central midfielder	Portsmouth	31	1352.6%	2912%
36	C. Coady Central midfielder	Wrexham	33	1635.9%	1751.9%