Khéphren Thuram

Juventus · Midfielder · France · 2,453 min

Ballity Verdict

What makes this player special?

Confidence · high

Khéphren Thuram 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 Juventus's structure.

What separates Thuram from ordinary specialists is breadth inside a coherent family: credible as carrier, and still trustworthy when asked to step toward box crasher. 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. Thuram's authenticity claim starts from those minutes, not from a role board alone.

The trade-off is real: ball_progressor 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: carrier, box crasher, box-to-box midfielder, creator
  • Shown minutes: CM (#8) / AM (#10)
  • Known caveat: ball_progressor
Receipts
  • · Player Profile
  • · Role Breadth
  • · Deployment authenticity
  • · Sample · featured

Position

Midfielder

Appearances

35

Great+ roles

1

Age

25

Preferred foot

Right

Height

191 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.

11.0% team touches

Peer band · Low

Pool percentile

27.2%

Also 68.8 touches/90 (season aggregate).

Efficiency

Output quality per action for midfielders.

66 score

Peer band · High

Pool percentile

78.4%

Press resistance 0.85Pass accuracy 86.8xA per key pass 0.146

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 Ball Progressor (Great)

Weak routes

Chance Creation · AveragePhysicality · Average

Stat profile

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

Tempo 75Duels 74Carrying 65Press Resistant
Creation21
Ball Progressor26
Carrying65
Finishing11
Defending63
Duels74
Tempo75
Box threat30

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 · 6 roles
38/ 100

Index

37.9

Breadth 23.5 · Depth 14.4

Fullbacks · GoodCentre-backsMidfielders · GreatWingersForwards · Good
  • ·Fullbacks: Defensive FB (Good)
  • ·Midfielders: Carrier (Great), Box-to-Box Midfielder (Great), Box Crasher (Good), Creator (Good)
  • ·Forwards: Target Man (Good)

Versatility shape

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

Great

Specialist

Great Specialist
1

Distinct Great+

1 Great+ roles total

Where he plays

Positions with deployment evidence — not statistical guesses.

Natural

AMAMCarrier
CMCMCarrier

Role translations

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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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