Best Defensive midfielders by Season Rating
The best defensive midfielders, ranked on Field Insider.
At a glance
Lamine Yamal of Barcelona is the standout for raw talent across midfielders, with a Field Insider Rating of 100, and V. Qazaishvili leads the scoring with 27 goals.
The numbers a scout watches are the year-on-year jumps: João Félix has improved his Season rating most, up +71 on last season, while E. Diouf's scouting Rating has risen fastest, +48.8 over the same span. Those are the players whose trajectory is bending upward fastest.
By our market-value index, M. Gibbs-White of Nottingham Forest is the most valuable name in this group at 144.2.
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