Ligue 1 2022/23: Assessing five standout late-January transfers – scout report

The 2023 January transfer window has slammed shut. In Ligue 1, we’ve seen plenty of noteworthy moves take place over the course of the month, some of the most interesting of which came in the dying days of this period.

This scout report will look at five of the late-January moves we consider standouts in terms of intrigue and believe to be worth monitoring.

We’ve used a mixture of data and video analysis for this piece. Our tactical analysis discusses how the selected players may contribute to their new teams tactics, considering major strengths, weaknesses, specific player traits and characteristics, as well as potential roles they could occupy within their new teams.

Terem Moffi to Nice

We’ll kick off our analysis by looking at Terem Moffi, who moved from Ligue 1’s seventh-placed side Lorient to eighth-placed Nice. Figure 1 above is a pizza chart displaying Moffi’s percentile rankings among Ligue 1 centre-forwards from the 2022/23 campaign.

In terms of passing, Moffi wasn’t heavily involved at Lorient and definitely wouldn’t be described as a ‘playmaker’ as such. However, the Nigerian attacker has a decent level of hold-up ability and, crucially, used his movement when dropping to offer himself as a passing option with his back to goal to drag defenders in and create space for others around him.