Replacement finder

Replace Lucas Vázquez

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

1

Assists

2

G+A

3

Shots

4

SoT

1

Crosses

20

Fouls won

8

Tackles won

4

Interceptions

2

Attack

74

Creation

89

Progression

61

Role score

56

Transfer fit

41

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Stuttgart · Bundesliga · Central Midfielder · Age 25

Strong stylistic match (83.5425992385739%); tactical fit is good; upgrade on role score (+16); 9 years younger.

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Bayern Munich · Bundesliga · Central Midfielder · Age 31

Strong stylistic match (78.6703002075576%); tactical fit is good; upgrade on role score (+15); 3 years younger.

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Óscar Mingueza

Celta Vigo · La Liga · Central Midfielder · Age 27

Strong stylistic match (82.05386303196936%); tactical fit is good; 7 years younger.

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Gladbach · Bundesliga · Central Midfielder · Age 32

Reasonable profile overlap (72.50722925192672%); tactical fit is good; upgrade on role score (+23); 2 years younger.

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Jan-Niklas Beste

Freiburg · Bundesliga · Central Midfielder · Age 27

Reasonable profile overlap (74.91553336333592%); tactical fit is workable; upgrade on role score (+25); 7 years younger.

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Adrien Thomasson

Lens · Ligue 1 · Central Midfielder · Age 32

Reasonable profile overlap (71.70431895570448%); tactical fit is good; upgrade on role score (+25); 2 years younger.

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Valentín Barco

Strasbourg · Ligue 1 · Central Midfielder · Age 21

Strong stylistic match (77.5479603237986%); tactical fit is workable; upgrade on role score (+23); 13 years younger.

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Toulouse · Ligue 1 · Central Midfielder · Age 28

Reasonable profile overlap (74.02044996769133%); tactical fit is good; upgrade on role score (+23); 6 years younger.

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Maximilian Arnold

Wolfsburg · Bundesliga · Central Midfielder · Age 31

Strong stylistic match (75.37696691470029%); tactical fit is good; 3 years younger.

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Dortmund · Bundesliga · Central Midfielder · Age 23

Strong stylistic match (77.71168609063506%); tactical fit is workable; upgrade on role score (+14); 11 years younger.

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Saud Abdulhamid

Lens · Ligue 1 · Central Midfielder · Age 26

Strong stylistic match (76.882561013481%); tactical fit is workable; 8 years younger.

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Nicolò Barella

Inter · Serie A · Central Midfielder · Age 29

Reasonable profile overlap (74.77364364212154%); tactical fit is good; upgrade on role score (+8); 5 years younger.

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Kiernan Dewsbury-Hall

Everton · Premier League · Central Midfielder · Age 27

Strong stylistic match (75.17143388146476%); tactical fit is workable; upgrade on role score (+15); 7 years younger.

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Elche · La Liga · Central Midfielder · Age 23

Strong stylistic match (79.64447117664153%); tactical fit is workable; 11 years younger.

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Leverkusen · Bundesliga · Attacking Midfielder · Age 30

Reasonable profile overlap (71.59321273624084%); tactical fit is good; upgrade on role score (+19); 4 years younger.

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Eintracht Frankfurt · Bundesliga · Central Midfielder · Age 27

Reasonable profile overlap (74.32788303020074%); tactical fit is workable; upgrade on role score (+15); 7 years younger.

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Alexander Prass

Hoffenheim · Bundesliga · Central Midfielder · Age 24

Strong stylistic match (76.0352983424577%); tactical fit is workable; upgrade on role score (+14); 10 years younger.

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Mainz 05 · Bundesliga · Central Midfielder · Age 32

Reasonable profile overlap (73.1361518785608%); tactical fit is good; cheaper by ~€1.1M; 2 years younger.

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