Player profile

RomaCentral MidfieldFrance24 yrsAgent · Relatives
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Neil El Aynaoui · #100 overall
Quiet · Heat 27 · Serie A · Midfielders
Fan totals + per-90 · Top-5 league · current season row
Assists
2
0.18 /90
Goals
1
0.09 /90
Passes
583
53.11 /90
vs peers · same league & position
Percentile rankInjury & sideline log · current status + two-year history
Fit · no active injury on file
Hamstring injury
Jan 2025 – Jan 2025
Muscle tear
Sept 2024 – Oct 2024
Knee injury
Jul 2024 – Sept 2024
85 days out recorded in last 2 years
Status clears when return date has passed or the daily injury sync marks the player fit · not medical advice.
Estimated market value over time
€20.0M
+13233% over window
RT estimated values · updated every few days · may lag breaking news by one revision.
Documented moves (4 on record) · "Fee not public" = transfer fee was not reported
Lens→Atlético
Jul 2025 · 25/26
Club not on file→Lens
Jul 2023 · 23/24
Club not on file→Club not on file
Jul 2021 · 21/22
Club not on file→Club not on file
Jul 2020 · 20/21
Youth loans and friendlies may be missing · club names matched from RT team directory.
Estimated value rank vs peer groups, plus where they have played by position.
Estimated value rank
Lower number = higher estimated transfer value in that group (e.g. 74th = 74th-most valuable in the pool).
529th
Worldwide
All tracked players by estimated value
73rd
League · Serie A
Players in Serie A
10th
National team · Morocco
Players from Morocco
69th
Position
Players in this role
65th
Birth year cohort · 2001
Players born 2001
Position distribution (career apps)
10G · 7A
W/D/L from your club's score · match rating when Sportmonks supplies it
24 May 26 · 44'
17 May 26 · 90'
El Aynaoui is the kind of midfielder Serie A clubs build defensive structures around without the wider world quite noticing yet. Operating in one of Europe's most tactically demanding leagues, his interception rate places him in the top 5% among midfielders—meaning he's not just pressing hard, he's pressing intelligently, anticipating rather than reacting. That press intensity, also top 10% in the league, compounds the picture: this is a player who suffocates opponents through positional discipline, not raw aggression. The counterintuitive detail is his aerial dominance—71.4% win rate, elite for a midfielder—which signals a physical and spatial authority that makes him a genuine asset at set pieces in both boxes.
Based on 503 min this season · DNA refreshes weekly.
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Season rates refresh weekly · peer percentiles from league cohorts · match log ~6h after FT.
6G · 0A
1G · 1A
Rankings refresh when extended player data is loaded · not every player has a full row yet.
10 May 26 · 31'
25 Apr 26 · 90'
18 Apr 26 · 60'
10 Apr 26 · 25'
22 Mar 26 · 51'
19 Mar 26 · 16'
W/D/L uses final score for the player's club that day. Match rows sync within ~6h · ratings may lag on some PL fixtures (Sportmonks column drift) · event minutes ~1h.