Alex Telles

AI Scouting Report

Telles is a specialist masquerading as a fullback, a dead-ball artist whose left foot operates more like a playmaker’s wand than a defender's tool. In a Serie A tier-C side, he is an offensive outlier; his 0.41 goals per 90 put him in the top 5% of all defenders, while his shot volume and key pass metrics consistently haunt the league’s elite percentiles. The counterintuitive reality of his 89.2% pass accuracy—top 20% in the league—is that it stems from technical precision rather than high involvement, as his low total pass volume suggests he is often bypassed in build-up until the final third. Defensively, the profile crumbles; sitting in the bottom 10% for interceptions, he lacks the anticipatory instincts required for high-level transitions and remains a liability in the air.