Looking for the best wonderkid Central Midfielders in FM24/25 Update? We've got a shortlist of all the best Central Midfielders Wonderkids in Football Manager 2024/25, Central Midfielders wonderkids are the best young players aged under 21 with high potential ability that are guaranteed to be good Central Midfielders in FM2024/25.

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These are the best young Central Midfielders in Football Manager 2024/25 as rated by their potential ability in the Central Midfielder position. Some of these are wonderkid Central Midfielders in FM24/25 Update meaning they are guaranteed to develop to be one of the best Central Midfielders in FM2024/25. Don't be put off by the fact that some of these Central Midfielders may not be very good Central Midfielders at the start of FM 24/25 Update, they have potential to develop and become one of the top Central Midfielders in FM2024/25. Others will already have high current abilities and be some of the best Central Midfielders in FM 24/25 Update already.

Name Age Position Wage Value Cost Expires Rating Potential
Jude Bellingham 21 DM, AM C £342k £175m £254m 30-06-2028
Eduardo Camavinga 21 D L, DM £136k £155m £300m 30-06-2028
Pape Matar Sarr 21 DM £80k £86m £171m 30-06-2029
Warren Zaïre-Emery 18 DM £65k £70m £174m 30-06-2028
Gavi 19 AM LC £124k £83m £196m 30-06-2025
João Neves 19 DM, AM C £40k £63m £146m 30-06-2028
Pedri 21 AM RLC £148k £79m £187m 30-06-2025
Archie Gray 18 DM £23k £71m £151m 30-06-2029
Pablo Barrios 21 DM £23k £55m £133m 30-06-2027
Heorhii Sudakov 21 AM LC £17k £98m £192m 31-12-2027
Sverre Halseth Nypan 17 AM RLC £1k £3m £7m 31-12-2025
Kendry Páez 17 AM LC £3k £17m £36m 31-12-2024
Assan Ouédraogo 18 AM LC £14k £23m £45m 30-06-2028
Lucas Bergvall 18 DM, AM C £6k £28m £53m 30-06-2028
Carlos Baleba 20 DM £18k £68m £145m 30-06-2027
Ayman Kari 19 M C £7k £8m £15m 30-06-2024
Kobbie Mainoo 19 DM, AM C £10k £104m £186m 30-06-2026
Désiré Doué 19 AM LC £51k £45m £95m 30-06-2028
Adam Wharton 20 DM £45k £54m £115m 30-06-2028
Alex Scott 20 DM, AM RC £50k £67m £143m 30-06-2027
Mateus Fernandes 20 AM C £42k £49m £104m 30-06-2028
Harvey Elliott 21 AM RC £45k £107m £203m 30-06-2026
Javi Guerra 21 DM, AM RC £18k £53m £123m 30-06-2026
Martin Baturina 21 AM C £8k £21m £45m 15-06-2027
Jacopo Fazzini 21 AM C £3k £8m £17m 30-06-2026
Hugo Larsson 20 DM £25k £68m £151m 30-06-2028
Luka Sučić 21 AM C £8k £9m £18m 30-06-2028
Petar Sučić 20 DM £4k £8m £17m 19-06-2027
Warren Bondo 20 DM £3k £14m £26m 30-06-2024
Giovanni Fabbian 21 DM, AM C £15k £4m £11m 30-06-2027
Said El Mala 17 AM/F C £3k £7m £13m 30-06-2026
Aidan Borland 17 M C £850 £5m £8m 30-06-2024
Myles Lewis-Skelly 17 DM £1k £32m £62m 30-06-2026
Ethan Nwaneri 17 AM RLC, F C £1k £28m £56m 30-06-2026
Trey Nyoni 17 AM C £769 £11m £24m 30-06-2026
Sebastian Olderheim 17 AM C £486 £1m £3m 31-12-2026
Chris Rigg 17 DM, AM C £220 £8m £16m 30-06-2025
Tyrese Hall 18 AM RLC £650 £15m £27m 30-06-2028
Unai Hernández 19 AM C £2k £3m £6m 30-06-2024
Lewis Miley 18 DM, AM C £20k £19m £33m 30-06-2027
Leonardo Mendicino 18 DM £4k £7m £15m 30-06-2026
Saïmon Bouabré 18 AM C £3k £5m £10m 30-06-2025
Kees Smit 18 DM, AM C £2k £14m £29m 30-06-2027
Noa Skoko 18 AM C £126 £1m £2m 31-05-2027
Lennon Miller 17 DM, AM C £1k £5m £9m 31-05-2025
Tom Bischof 19 DM, AM C £12k £7m £11m 30-06-2024
Jack Hinshelwood 19 D/WB R, DM £3k £32m £62m 30-06-2027
Oscar Zambrano 20 DM £4k £2m £3m 31-12-2025
Aaron Ciammaglichella 19 AM C £2k £4m £7m 30-06-2024
Luca Lipani 19 DM £3k £5m £10m 30-06-2027
Niccolò Pisilli 19 M C £27k £6m £13m 30-06-2025
Alexandr Kovalenko 20 DM, AM C £8k £3m £6m 30-06-2027
Tygo Land 18 DM, AM C £3k £6m £12m 30-06-2028
Hugo Sotelo 20 M RC £3k £9m £16m 30-06-2024
Bobby Clark 19 AM RLC £3k £10m £21m 30-06-2028
Jhon Solís 19 DM £3k £34m £72m 30-06-2027
Oliver Arblaster 20 DM £800 £15m £31m 30-06-2027
Habib Diarra 20 M C £4k £15m £30m 30-06-2027
Matteo Prati 20 DM £7k £14m £31m 30-06-2027
Williot Swedberg 20 AM RLC, F C £3k £23m £50m 30-06-2026
Andrey Santos 20 DM £50k £31m £70m 30-06-2029
Lesley Ugochukwu 20 DM £50k £27m £59m 30-06-2029
Kacper Urbański 19 DM, AM LC £5k £15m £28m 30-06-2024
Renato Veiga 20 D LC, DM £16k £25m £54m 30-06-2030
Rafael Luís 19 DM £3k £3m £5m 30-06-2027
Yehor Yarmoliuk 20 AM C £5k £36m £74m 30-06-2027
Abdoullah Ba 20 AM RLC £4k £9m £17m 30-06-2026
Cesare Casadei 21 AM C £35k £13m £28m 30-06-2027
Yunus Musah 21 AM RC £42k £39m £80m 30-06-2027
Carney Chukwuemeka 20 AM C £100k £19m £40m 30-06-2027
Unai Gómez 21 AM C £11k £35m £74m 30-06-2027
Aster Vranckx 21 DM, AM C £27k £43m £81m 30-06-2024
Kamory Doumbia 21 AM C £9k £11m £23m 30-06-2028
Mads Enggård 20 M C £2k £4m £8m 30-06-2027
Fabio Miretti 20 AM C £31k £9m £20m 30-06-2027
Adil Aouchiche 21 AM C £11k £10m £21m 30-06-2027
Kian Fitz-Jim 21 DM, AM C £7k £20m £43m 30-06-2026
Ricard Artero 21 DM £3k £7m £15m 30-06-2025
Roméo Amané 21 DM £1k £2m £4m 31-12-2025
Ilaix Moriba 21 DM, AM C £66k £30m £60m 30-06-2025
Arne Engels 20 WB R, DM, M RC £13k £21m £44m 30-06-2027
Nikita Krivtsov 21 AM C £12k £6m £14m 30-06-2028
Hannibal 21 AM C £23k £34m £67m 30-06-2027
Ezequiel Fernández 21 DM £57k £21m £45m 30-06-2028
Dani Lorenzo 21 AM C £3k £1m £2m 30-06-2026
Gustavo Puerta 20 DM £14k £5m £10m 30-06-2027
Andreas Nibe 21 DM £600 £926k £2m 30-06-2026
Otto Rosengren 21 DM, AM C £2k £2m £4m 31-12-2026
Ísak Jóhannesson 21 DM, AM C £8k £4m £7m 30-06-2028
Federico Redondo 21 DM £4k £6m £13m 31-12-2026
Manuel Ángel 20 AM LC £1k £252k £427k 30-06-2024
Javi Serrano 21 DM £7k £4m £7m 30-06-2025
Mateusz Łęgowski 21 DM £6k £3m £7m 30-06-2025
Wesley Adeh 17 D C, DM £55 £2m £3m 30-06-2024
Beto 17 DM, AM C £248 £5k £7k 30-06-2025
Jamaldeen Jimoh 17 M C £1k £897k £2m 30-06-2026
Finlay Cartwright 17 DM £220 £2m £4m 30-06-2024
Fer López 20 DM £284 £418k £635k 30-06-2024
Hunor Németh 17 DM £50 £1m £2m 30-06-2024
Callum Olusesi 17 M C £1k £3m £6m 30-06-2025
Aarón Ochoa 17 AM C £416 £2m £3m 30-06-2026
Yu Takada 18 M C £0 £337k £438k 31-12-2023
Kenji Goes 17 M C £85 £890k £1m 30-06-2026
Jack Fletcher 17 AM C £2k £13m £27m 30-06-2026
Kiano Dyer 17 DM £5k £12m £24m 30-06-2025
Jaden de Guzman 17 M C £85 £3m £6m 30-06-2026
Jayce Fitzgerald 17 DM £220 £435k £731k 30-06-2024
Nick de Koning 17 M C £389 £3m £6m 30-06-2026
Emmanuel Dzigbah 18 M C £204 £207k £359k 30-06-2024
Sidney 17 DM £255 £1m £3m 31-12-2025
Cheveyo Tsawa 17 DM, AM C £225 £2m £5m 30-06-2025
Thijs Kraaijeveld 17 AM C £712 £5m £8m 30-06-2024
Josen Escobar 19 DM £5k £1m £2m 30-06-2025
Victor Okishor 17 AM LC £205 £959k £2m 31-12-2024
Danila Kozlov 19 AM C £4k £4m £9m 30-06-2028
Matvey Kislyak 18 DM, AM C £825 £3m £8m 30-06-2027
Benjamin Cremaschi 19 M RC £1k £4m £10m 31-12-2026
Cristo 19 AM C £1k £3m £4m 30-06-2024
Amouri Faisal 19 DM £156 £35k £81k 30-06-2025
Figueiredo 18 DM, AM C £83 £480k £908k 30-09-2025
JP 19 AM C £865 £2m £3m 31-12-2026
Gaël Lafont 18 AM C £553 £2m £3m 30-06-2025
Yassine Khalifi 18 DM £553 £1m £2m 30-06-2027
Mahamadou Diawara 19 M C £5k £5m £10m 30-06-2025
Jobe Bellingham 18 DM, AM/F C £8k £8m £16m 30-06-2027
Fodé Sylla 18 DM £756 £4m £8m 30-06-2025
Sebastien Koffi 19 M C £213 £144k £253k 30-06-2024
Moussa Yeo 20 M C £2k £10m £17m 30-06-2026
Mauricio Benítez 20 DM £674 £5m £14m 31-12-2027
João Teixeira 18 DM £1k £319k £475k 30-06-2024
Michael Golding 18 DM, AM C £9k £5m £9m 30-06-2027
Daniel Kelly 18 AM C £2k £6m £10m 30-06-2025
Kodai Sano 20 AM RLC £2k £9m £19m 30-06-2027
Nicola Profeta 18 DM £246 £381k £795k 31-12-2026
Jens Hjertø-Dahl 18 DM £636 £2m £4m 31-12-2026
Dani Pérez 18 AM C £506 £3m £5m 30-06-2025
Ebenezer Akinsanmiro 19 AM C £5k £3m £4m 30-06-2024
Manuel Mendonça 19 M C £2k £485k £655k 30-06-2024
Aleix Garrido 20 DM £5k £5m £8m 30-06-2024
David Ozoh 19 DM £900 £2m £4m 30-06-2025
David Watson 19 DM £1k £3m £6m 31-05-2025
Oscar Højlund 19 DM, AM C £6k £2m £4m 30-06-2028
Aitor Gismera 20 M C £2k £5m £10m 30-06-2025
Tim van den Heuvel 19 DM £1k £4m £7m 30-06-2024
Martin Gjorgievski 19 DM £293 £375k £702k 30-06-2024
Thiago Fernández 20 AM C £959 £6m £11m 31-12-2024
Lewis Hall 19 D LC, DM, AM C £30k £32m £65m 30-06-2028
Christopher Olivier 18 DM, AM C £2k £2m £4m 30-06-2027
Kevin Zeroli 19 M C £4k £2m £4m 30-06-2027
Tommaso Berti 20 AM C £5k £1m £2m 30-06-2025
Guilherme Santos 19 AM C £2k £566k £861k 30-06-2024
Riccardo Pagano 19 AM C £3k £7m £14m 30-06-2025
Rocco Robert Shein 20 DM £1k £1m £2m 30-06-2024
Niklas Jensen Wassberg 20 AM C £1k £2m £4m 31-12-2025
Ronald 21 DM £936 £1m £3m 31-12-2026
Umut Tohumcu 19 DM £8k £11m £21m 30-06-2025
Martín Tejón 20 AM RLC £2k £8m £15m 30-06-2025
Silvano Vos 19 D C, DM £3k £5m £9m 30-06-2028
Jordan James 20 DM £5k £3m £7m 30-06-2027
Diego Gómez 21 DM £8k £4m £11m 31-12-2025
Cameron Humphreys 20 DM, M LC £5k £12m £23m 30-06-2025
Luciano 21 DM £902 £3m £5m 31-12-2025
Edan Diop 19 AM C £2k £4m £7m 30-06-2027
Magnus Bech Riisnæs 19 WB R, AM C £774 £2m £3m 31-07-2026
Leon Avdullahu 20 DM £2k £7m £15m 30-06-2027
Cher Ndour 19 AM C £9k £9m £18m 30-06-2027
Luis Hasa 20 AM LC £3k £5m £8m 30-06-2025
Charlie Webster 20 DM, AM LC £5k £995k £2m 30-06-2026
Dave Kwakman 19 DM, AM C £2k £7m £11m 30-06-2024
Mohamed El Arouch 20 DM, AM C £0 £0
Khalil Fayad 20 M C £2k £5m £9m 30-06-2026
Tim Iroegbunam 21 DM £21k £24m £41m 30-06-2026
Yasin Ayari 20 DM, AM C £8k £16m £28m 30-06-2026
Andrés Romero 21 M RC £699 £630k £1m 31-12-2024
Christos Zafeiris 21 DM, AM C £3k £6m £16m 30-06-2026
Tobias Gulliksen 21 AM RLC £2k £2m £3m 31-12-2026
Andy Diouf 21 DM, AM C £5k £13m £27m 30-06-2027
Gvidas Gineitis 20 DM £3k £9m £20m 30-06-2027
Liam Gibbs 21 DM, AM C £12k £8m £17m 30-06-2027
Joe Hodge 21 DM £10k £17m £35m 30-06-2026
David Ayala 21 DM £8k £5m £12m 31-12-2024
Mamadou Gning 17 M LC £27 £55k £113k 30-06-2025
Lamine Camara 20 AM C £8k £6m £12m 30-06-2028
Rodrigo Alonso 21 DM £3k £3m £6m 30-06-2024
Robert Wagner 20 DM £12k £5m £11m 30-06-2025
Arthur Atta 21 DM, AM C £5k £4m £8m 30-06-2025
Lewis Bate 21 DM £7k £3m £5m 30-06-2026
Iker Muñoz 21 DM £3k £7m £16m 30-06-2026
Tochi Chukwuani 21 DM £4k £3m £7m 30-06-2027
Caspar Jander 21 DM £6k £1m £3m 30-06-2026
Damián 21 DM £4k £2m £3m 30-06-2026
Jens Castrop 20 D/WB R, DM, M RC £6k £2m £4m 30-06-2024
Lasso Coulibaly 21 AM RC, F C £5k £4m £8m 30-06-2027
César Pérez 21 DM £3k £4m £9m 31-12-2027
Tom Louchet 21 M RLC £3k £2m £3m 30-06-2024
Malibongwe Khoza 20 M C £952 £159k £268k 30-06-2024
Bryant Ortega 21 DM, AM C £15k £6m £12m 30-06-2027
Jabes Saralegui 21 DM, M RC £724 £4m £11m 31-12-2027
Florian Engelhardt 21 DM £3k £295k £506k 30-06-2024
Rokas Pukštas 19 M C £4k £3m £7m 31-05-2026

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