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Replace Exequiel Palacios

Statistically similar 2025/26 players based on per-90 output, defensive activity, role group and tactical fit. Estimated fees are not official market values — model-derived estimates from public football data.

What Leverkusen would lose

Profile being replaced — public football data, model-derived role scores.

Goals

0

Assists

1

G+A

1

Shots

10

SoT

2

Crosses

2

Fouls won

18

Tackles won

9

Interceptions

10

Attack

49

Creation

58

Progression

49

Role score

50

Transfer fit

51

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Barcelona · La Liga · Central Midfielder · Age 23

Strong stylistic match (82.62924067410238%); tactical fit is good; upgrade on role score (+21); 4 years younger.

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Manchester City · Premier League · Central Midfielder · Age 29

Strong stylistic match (82.52181915806143%); tactical fit is good; upgrade on role score (+11).

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Ezequiél Fernández

Leverkusen · Bundesliga · Central Midfielder · Age 23

Strong stylistic match (80.59092847897602%); tactical fit is good; upgrade on role score (+12); cheaper by ~€8M; 4 years younger.

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Hicham Boudaoui

Nice · Ligue 1 · Central Midfielder · Age 26

Strong stylistic match (78.74177230489553%); tactical fit is good; upgrade on role score (+13); cheaper by ~€19.7M; 1 years younger.

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Villarreal · La Liga · Central Midfielder · Age 27

Strong stylistic match (77.2422548162526%); tactical fit is good; upgrade on role score (+19); cheaper by ~€11.6M.

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Roma · Serie A · Central Midfielder · Age 25

Strong stylistic match (78.90676793551972%); tactical fit is good; 2 years younger.

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Liverpool · Premier League · Central Midfielder · Age 25

Strong stylistic match (77.15332201604593%); tactical fit is good; upgrade on role score (+13); 2 years younger.

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Pierre Højbjerg

Marseille · Ligue 1 · Central Midfielder · Age 30

Strong stylistic match (77.31191825098483%); tactical fit is good; upgrade on role score (+13); cheaper by ~€12.1M.

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Albert Sambi Lokonga

Hamburger SV · Bundesliga · Central Midfielder · Age 26

Strong stylistic match (76.50422821294168%); tactical fit is good; cheaper by ~€22.8M; 1 years younger.

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Nantes · Ligue 1 · Central Midfielder · Age 24

Strong stylistic match (77.00311713177578%); tactical fit is good; cheaper by ~€29.6M; 3 years younger.

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Kristian Thorstvedt

Sassuolo · Serie A · Central Midfielder · Age 27

Reasonable profile overlap (74.0458787568853%); tactical fit is good; upgrade on role score (+10); cheaper by ~€20.7M.

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Barcelona · La Liga · Central Midfielder · Age 22

Strong stylistic match (78.74260142917844%); tactical fit is good; cheaper by ~€7M; 5 years younger.

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Freiburg · Bundesliga · Central Midfielder · Age 20

Strong stylistic match (75.09771719197218%); tactical fit is workable; upgrade on role score (+25); 7 years younger.

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Frenkie de Jong

Barcelona · La Liga · Central Midfielder · Age 29

Reasonable profile overlap (73.8051064544718%); tactical fit is good; upgrade on role score (+12).

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Lorient · Ligue 1 · Central Midfielder · Age 22

Strong stylistic match (75.22091257823453%); tactical fit is good; upgrade on role score (+13); cheaper by ~€13.1M; 5 years younger.

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Köln · Bundesliga · Central Midfielder · Age 24

Strong stylistic match (75.02071843631485%); tactical fit is good; cheaper by ~€22.8M; 3 years younger.

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Stuttgart · Bundesliga · Central Midfielder · Age 26

Reasonable profile overlap (71.76542373454454%); tactical fit is good; upgrade on role score (+16); cheaper by ~€28.9M; 1 years younger.

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Yannik Engelhardt

Gladbach · Bundesliga · Central Midfielder · Age 25

Reasonable profile overlap (74.50815213810804%); tactical fit is good; cheaper by ~€25.4M; 2 years younger.

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