Seko Fofana
Stade Rennais · Midfielder · Côte d'Ivoire · 438 min
Ballity Verdict
What makes this player special?
Seko Fofana is the kind of midfielder coaches build possession around. At Stade Rennais, 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, Fofana remains plausible as carrier and deep-lying playmaker. 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. Fofana'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, carrier, deep-lying playmaker
- 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
4
Great+ roles
0
Age
31
Preferred foot
Both
Height
184 cm
Ballity insights
Peer context vs midfielders — how often they get the ball and what they do with it. Separate from role tiers above. Catalogue profile — usage ranked on touches/90, not team touch share.
Usage rate
Touch volume among midfielders (touches per 90).
61.0 usage proxy
Peer band · Elite
Pool percentile
95.5%
Efficiency
Output quality per action for midfielders.
27 score
Peer band · Minimal
Pool percentile
23.2%
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.
Stat profile
Within Winger 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
21.7
Breadth 13.4 · Depth 8.3
- ·Midfielders: Box Crasher (Good), Carrier (Good), Deep-Lying Playmaker (Good)
- ·Wingers: Duelist Winger (Good)
Versatility shape
Coarse directional pattern (Specialist / Dual-threat / Generalist) — not the 0–100 Index above.
Specialist
Good SpecialistDistinct 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 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.
Aleksandr Golovin
AS Monaco · Ligue 1 24/25
Closest roles
CarrierΔ18
Box CrasherΔ10
Deep-Lying PlaymakerΔ22
Pierre-Emile Højbjerg
Olympique de Marseille · Ligue 1
Closest roles
- CarrierΔ13
- Box CrasherΔ15
- Deep-Lying PlaymakerΔ3
Luka Sučić
Real Sociedad · La Liga 24/25
Closest roles
- CarrierΔ11
- Box CrasherΔ1
- Deep-Lying PlaymakerΔ0