Bruno Guimarães
Newcastle United · Midfielder · Brazil · 542 min
Ballity Verdict
What makes this player special?
Bruno Guimarães is the kind of midfielder coaches build possession around. At Newcastle United, 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 box crasher: he controls games more than he decides them.
Beyond the headline job, Guimarães remains plausible as deep-lying playmaker and playmaking winger. The secondary roles matter for how a coach can reorganise without changing the XI entirely.
On the pitch he has actually been used as CM (#8) / AM (#10). That matters: skill-set breadth is one thing; demonstrated deployment is another. Guimarães's authenticity claim starts from those minutes, not from a role board alone.
Sample size still limits how hard you can push the conclusions. The football idea is clear; the confidence should stay honest until a fuller season of minutes confirms it.
Why Ballity says this
- Midfield / role totality: box crasher, deep-lying playmaker, playmaking winger
- Shown minutes: CM (#8) / AM (#10)
- No major weakness flags in the current profile
Receipts
- · Player Profile
- · Role Breadth
- · Deployment authenticity
- · Sample · limited
Position
Midfielder
Appearances
7
Great+ roles
0
Age
28
Preferred foot
Right
Height
182 cm
Ballity insights
Peer context vs wingers — how often they get the ball and what they do with it. Separate from role tiers above. Attackers also split separation into on-ball (dribble-created) and off-ball (movement).
Usage rate
Share of team touches (non-GK) among wingers with match data.
14.4% team touches
Peer band · Elite
Pool percentile
86.7%
Also 74.6 touches/90 (season aggregate).
Efficiency
Output quality per action for wingers.
19 score
Peer band · Minimal
Pool percentile
13.3%
On-ball separation
Dribble-created space and self-made shot quality.
34 score
Peer band · Minimal
Pool percentile
17.8%
Off-ball separation
Movement-created space on assisted attempts.
42 score
Peer band · Low
Pool percentile
29.4%
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.
No Elite/Great axis on this position's job board, so no weakness flag.
Defensive contribution
Proxy only · confidence: proxy — not a role tier
Proxy p82 · Actions p86 within winger peers
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
42.0
Breadth 23.5 · Depth 18.6
- ·Midfielders: Box Crasher (Great), Creator (Great), Deep-Lying Playmaker (Good), Carrier (Good), Box-to-Box Midfielder (Good)
- ·Wingers: Playmaking Winger (Good), Raumdeuter (Good)
- ·Forwards: Poacher (Good)
Versatility shape
Coarse directional pattern (Specialist / Dual-threat / Generalist) — not the 0–100 Index above.
Generalist
Good GeneralistDistinct Great+
0 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 winger 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.
Harry Wilson
Fulham · PL 25/26
Closest roles
Playmaking WingerΔ11
RaumdeuterΔ12
Wide RunnerΔ11
Florian Wirtz
Liverpool · PL 25/26
Closest roles
- Playmaking WingerΔ10
- RaumdeuterΔ5
- Wide RunnerΔ9
Viktor Tsygankov
Girona FC · La Liga
Closest roles
- Playmaking WingerΔ12
- RaumdeuterΔ20
- Wide RunnerΔ10