Jude Bellingham

Real Madrid · Midfielder · England · 1,810 min

Ballity Verdict

What makes this player special?

Confidence · high

Jude Bellingham covers both boxes. He is not a specialist who only protects or only arrives late — he is the midfielder who can win it, carry it, and still show up in the final third. That two-way presence is what makes him hard to replace in Real Madrid's structure.

What separates Bellingham from ordinary specialists is breadth inside a coherent family: credible as box crasher, and still trustworthy when asked to step toward carrier. That is versatility with a purpose — not a random scatter of average roles.

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. Bellingham's authenticity claim starts from those minutes, not from a role board alone.

The trade-off is real: physicality 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

  • Midfield / role totality: box crasher, carrier, duel destroyer, creator
  • Shown minutes: CM (#8) / AM (#10)
  • Known caveat: physicality
Receipts
  • · Player Profile
  • · Role Breadth
  • · Deployment authenticity
  • · Sample · featured

Position

Midfielder

Appearances

22

Great+ roles

3

Age

23

Preferred foot

Right

Height

188 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.

15.0% team touches

Peer band · Minimal

Pool percentile

19.8%

Also 73.7 touches/90 (season aggregate).

Efficiency

Output quality per action for midfielders.

65 score

Peer band · High

Pool percentile

75.0%

Press resistance 0.83Pass accuracy 87.5xA per key pass 0.103

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.

Weak routesMidfielder

Strong as Physicality (Great)

Weak routes

Ball Progressor

Stat profile

Within Midfielder peers — percentile shape (not role scores).

Box threat 97Finishing 96Duels 87Underperforming XGPress Resistant
Creation81
Ball Progressor70
Carrying85
Finishing96
Defending63
Duels87
Tempo83
Box threat97

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.

3 groups · 10 roles
70/ 100

Index

69.9

Breadth 36.9 · Depth 33.0

Fullbacks · EliteCentre-backsMidfielders · EliteWingersForwards · Great
  • ·Fullbacks: Playmaking FB (Elite), Defensive FB (Great)
  • ·Midfielders: Box Crasher (Elite), Box-to-Box Midfielder (Elite), Carrier (Great), Duel Destroyer (Great), Deep-Lying Playmaker (Great), Creator (Good)
  • ·Forwards: Poacher (Great), Target Man (Great)

Versatility shape

Coarse directional pattern (Specialist / Dual-threat / Generalist) — not the 0–100 Index above.

Great

Generalist

Great Generalist
3

Distinct Great+

3 Great+ roles total

Where he plays

Positions with deployment evidence — not statistical guesses.

Natural

AMAMBox Crasher
CMCMBox Crasher

Role translations

Where the profile could fit. Tap a position — then see which role style suits it.

NaturalValidatedSupportedStrongPlausibleExploratory

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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.

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