Samú Costa
Mallorca · Midfielder · Portugal · 1,889 min
Ballity Verdict
What makes this player special?
Samú Costa stabilises midfield before anything flashy happens. He wins the ball, protects the back line, and lets more creative teammates play with freedom — the unglamorous job that keeps Mallorca structurally sound.
He is not trying to be everything. The profile is concentrated: do duel destroyer 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. Costa'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
- Clearest current facet: duel destroyer (great)
- Shown minutes: CM (#8) / DM (#6)
- Known caveat: physicality
Receipts
- · Player Profile
- · Role Breadth
- · Deployment authenticity
- · Sample · featured
Position
Midfielder
Appearances
22
Great+ roles
1
Age
25
Preferred foot
Left
Height
183 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.
19.9% team touches
Peer band · High
Pool percentile
74.5%
Also 66.5 touches/90 (season aggregate).
Efficiency
Output quality per action for midfielders.
63 score
Peer band · Average
Pool percentile
49.1%
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 Physicality (Great)
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
15.2
Breadth 10.1 · Depth 5.2
- ·Midfielders: Duel Destroyer (Great), Box-to-Box Midfielder (Good)
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.
Beñat Prados
Athletic Club · La Liga 24/25
Closest roles
Duel DestroyerΔ14
Box CrasherΔ1
Box-to-BoxΔ37
Kervin Arriaga
Levante UD · La Liga
Closest roles
- Duel DestroyerΔ12
- Box-to-BoxΔ10
- Box CrasherΔ5
Abu Francis
Toulouse · Ligue 1
Closest roles
- Duel DestroyerΔ12
- Box CrasherΔ4
- Box-to-BoxΔ24