Following reports that interest in Martin Odegaard is building after some excellent performances in recent weeks for Arsenal, it has been suggested that the Norwegian international could now fetch £50m.

Were Real Madrid to stick to that figure when the playmaker finishes his loan spell in the summer, the Gunners will have a difficult decision to make over whether to hand over the cash or pursue other avenues.

To assess potential alternatives, we used StatBombs’s Shot Creating Actions (SCA) metric to assess a player’s creativity. A Shot Creating Action is a pass, a foul or a dribble that directly leads to an attempt on goal.

Press the next page as we list five midfielders who could be targeted based on their SCA per 90.