As we move towards the end of the January transfer window, we can begin to look forward to the summer’s window. This data analysis looks to highlight some interesting Bundesliga prospects who will be available for free transfers as their current contracts run out at the end of the current season. This analysis isnt a scout report, and merely looks to give a brief overview of some of the players available and highlight some areas of strengths by looking at their data and statistics from the current season along with that of those who play in the same position.
This article highlights players to have played at least 300 minutes of Bundesliga football this season. This isn’t a great deal of football, but enough for us to see how these players measure up in context against their peers. Therefore, there are some players who aren’t included due to their lack of football and should be noted as options too. Eric Maxim Choupo-Moting at Bayern Munich and Jeffrey Bruma at Wolfsburg offer experience, whilst Luca Netz of Hertha Berlin and Melayro Bogarde of Hoffenheim offer interesting prospects for the future. There is a lack of exciting options at goalkeeper, so this position has been omitted, and likewise for left-wingers. Marcel Schmelzer of Borussia Dortmund, and Jetro Willems offer potentially interesting options at left-back, but haven’t featured this season themselves and so again are omitted.
David Alaba is due to sign with Real Madrid at the end of this season, and so hasn’t been mentioned either.
Full-backs
For full-backs we will look at defensive duels, both amount per 90 and percentage won. Whilst we will also look at aerial duel win percentage. The aerial duel win percentage is represented by the plot size, and we can see how each player measures up against the other full-backs in the league by looking at their plot sizes too. These plot sizes will be used throughout this analysis.
We will also look at the amount of crosses and dribbles each player attempts per 90, with the plot size representing their progessive runs per 90 too.
