Adem Zorgane
Royale Union Saint-Gilloise · Midfielder · Algeria · 673 min
Ballity Verdict
What makes this player special?
Adem Zorgane is the kind of midfielder coaches build possession around. At Royale Union Saint-Gilloise, his real value is not goals or highlight assists — it is how cleanly he moves the team from safe zones into dangerous ones, almost never giving the ball away cheaply. Ballity's clearest read is deep-lying playmaker: he controls games more than he decides them.
He is not trying to be everything. The profile is concentrated: do deep-lying playmaker at a high level, and let secondary tasks stay secondary.
On the pitch he has actually been used as CM (#8) / DM (#6). That matters: skill-set breadth is one thing; demonstrated deployment is another. Zorgane's authenticity claim starts from those minutes, not from a role board alone.
The trade-off is real: chance_creation shows up as a structural caveat in the profile. Any club buying the upside has to decide whether that hole is tolerable in their system — or whether they will need complementary players beside him.
Why Ballity says this
- Clearest current facet: deep-lying playmaker (great)
- Shown minutes: CM (#8) / DM (#6)
- Known caveat: chance_creation
Receipts
- · Player Profile
- · Role Breadth
- · Deployment authenticity
- · Sample · limited
Position
Midfielder
Appearances
8
Great+ roles
1
Age
26
Preferred foot
Right
Height
184 cm
Ballity insights
Peer context vs midfielders — how often they get the ball and what they do with it. Separate from role tiers above.
Usage rate
Share of team touches (non-GK) among midfielders with match data.
27.6% team touches
Peer band · Elite
Pool percentile
97.2%
Also 65.1 touches/90 (season aggregate).
Efficiency
Output quality per action for midfielders.
67 score
Peer band · High
Pool percentile
79.0%
Balance & structural weaknesses
How complete this player is on the position's job board — strengths and holes.
How we define this
Two-way = Great+ on ≥2 complementary axes. One-way = every other route Limited/closed. Weak routes = Average holes on complementary axes.
Strong as Chance Creation (Great), Ball Progressor (Great)
Weak routes
Stat profile
Within position peers — percentile shape (not role scores).
Versatility Index
Precise 0–100 score — cross-group breadth (67%) plus within-group depth (33%), quality-scaled by tier. Distinct from the shape card below.
Index
21.9
Breadth 16.8 · Depth 5.2
- ·Fullbacks: Playmaking FB (Good)
- ·Midfielders: Deep-Lying Playmaker (Great)
Versatility shape
Coarse directional pattern (Specialist / Dual-threat / Generalist) — not the 0–100 Index above.
Specialist
Great SpecialistDistinct Great+
1 Great+ roles total
Where he plays
Positions with deployment evidence — not statistical guesses.
Natural
Role translations
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Role-by-role detail
How each role is scored. Expand a row for a radar of role-shaped stats.
Similar players
Shape match across midfielder roles — cosine similarity of role scores (domestic leagues only). Slot 1 is the best same-league match; the rest are the next closest from the full pool.
Hugo Sotelo
Celta Vigo · La Liga
Closest roles
Deep-Lying PlaymakerΔ5
Box-to-BoxΔ15
CreatorΔ19
Youssouf Fofana
Milan · Serie A 24/25
Closest roles
- Deep-Lying PlaymakerΔ11
- Box-to-BoxΔ1
- CreatorΔ7
Granit Xhaka
Sunderland · PL 25/26
Closest roles
- Deep-Lying PlaymakerΔ12
- Box-to-BoxΔ4
- CreatorΔ7