The so called ‘Engine Room’ is as the name suggests the epicentre of activity in any football game. And it also home to one of the more tactically flexible positions in football. After all, the term central midfielder per se is host to a variety of different roles that we have learnt to associate with various players. Holding midfielders, box to box midfielders, central attacking midfielders, or if you’d like to call them registas or trequartistas, all are essentially entities under one common name: the central midfielder.

Here we compile a list of the Top 5 Young Central Midfielders in European Football. To maintain some sort of standard and consistency, this list includes one central midfielder from each of Europe’s top divisions.

The stats for this infograph have been supplied by @TypicalBlueMoon. The infograph itself has been made by @RazimRefai

FURTHER READING:

Geoffrey Kondogbia Scout Report

Marco Verratti Scout Report