Nelson Deossa

Key strength: Work rate

Box-to-box midfielder

In the sun-baked heart of Seville, where the battle for midfield supremacy never rests, Nelson Deossa fights a quieter war. Real Betis sit 11th in La Liga, their WLWDW form a portrait of a club caught between European dreams and mid-table reality. Within that struggle, the 25-year-old Colombian midfielder finds himself on the periphery—just 360 minutes across four appearances this campaign, his stat sheet a brutal ledger of zeros: no goals, no assists, only a single yellow card to mark his presence. Yet Deossa's €5.5 million valuation hints at something untapped. He's a box-to-box battler in the purest sense, compensating for modest technical gifts with tireless running and an engine that refuses to quit. But Manuel Pellegrini's midfield belongs to the reliable Sergi Altimira, leaving Deossa to feast on scraps. At 25, the window for converting raw stamina into tangible output narrows. The tenacity is there. The opportunity is not. Deossa stands at a crossroads—either prove Betis's faith in his potential or risk becoming another what-if in the club's crowded midfield graveyard.