Jonathan Varane Scout Report At QPR 2025/2026: Built To Win Midfield Duels – Player Analysis

The EFL Championship is consistently one of the most entertaining leagues in world football.

It’s a league packed with drama, and it’s common to have more than half the league eyeing up a route to Premier League promotion.

That’s certainly the case this season, where 14th-placed Southampton are just four points off Wrexham in sixth at the time of writing.

Queens Park Rangers, in 12th, are another side hoping to be in the playoff conversation at the end of the 2025/2026 campaign.

One asset they’ll be relying on to get them there is 24-year-old Jonathan Varane (189cm/6’2”, 78kg/171lbs), who’s currently in the middle of his second season at Loftus Road following a €1.52m move from Sporting Gijón in August 2024.

Varane profiles as a high-volume, defence-first central midfielder with world-class physical capabilities.

This Jonathan Varane scout report aims to highlight the Martinique international’s key strengths and areas for improvement to help him develop his all-around game for the next level.

Jonathan Varane Stats

Figure 1 presents key 2025/2026 data on Jonathan Varane, including a heat map, position map, and percentile ranks for custom-built metrics derived from weighted combinations of Wyscout’s raw data.

The percentile ranks benchmark Jonathan Varane’s performance in each of our nine stats against that of other central midfielders who have played at least 600 minutes in the Championship and leagues of similar quality (the Belgian Pro League, the Dutch Eredivisie, the Portuguese Primeira Liga, and the Turkish Süper Lig) this season.

The data paints a picture of Varane as a defensively strong, positionally intelligent central midfielder who takes a high volume of defensive actions.

The data indicate that his primary value lies in what he adds without the ball, rather than with it, though his performance across all metrics is at least above average.

Jonathan Varane Percentile Ranks 2025/2026

Varane posts highly impressive numbers across our Interception Intelligence Score, Defensive Actions Index, and Defensive Discipline Index.

The former suggests strong spatial awareness and timing, which are especially important qualities in central areas where his ability to anticipate opponents’ actions can disrupt opposition attacks before duels are required and fouls become more of a risk.