Ryan Christie
Bournemouth · Midfielder · Scotland · 2,073 min
Ballity Verdict
What makes this player special?
Ryan Christie is the kind of midfielder coaches build possession around. At Bournemouth, 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. Christie'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 · featured
Position
Midfielder
Appearances
26
Great+ roles
1
Age
31
Preferred foot
Left
Height
178 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.
16.2% team touches
Peer band · High
Pool percentile
75.5%
Also 62.1 touches/90 (season aggregate).
Efficiency
Output quality per action for midfielders.
61 score
Peer band · Low
Pool percentile
32.5%
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 (Elite), Ball Progressor (Elite)
Weak routes
Stat profile
Within Midfielder 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
13.1
Breadth 10.1 · Depth 3.1
- ·Midfielders: Deep-Lying Playmaker (Great)
Versatility shape
Coarse directional pattern (Specialist / Dual-threat / Generalist) — not the 0–100 Index above.
Specialist
Elite 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.
Mikkel Damsgaard
Brentford · PL 24/25
Closest roles
Deep-Lying PlaymakerΔ20
CreatorΔ30
Box-to-BoxΔ17
Ísak Bergmann Jóhannesson
1. FC Köln · Bundesliga
Closest roles
- Deep-Lying PlaymakerΔ6
- CreatorΔ7
- Box-to-BoxΔ9
Nicolò Fagioli
Fiorentina · Serie A
Closest roles
- Deep-Lying PlaymakerΔ1
- CreatorΔ23
CarrierΔ29