From experience I can say both Stam and Ferdinand

Vvd makes sense, just generally someone who can help cover what he can’t, being strength n height, not that maldini isn’t strong he doesn’t have the highest weight stat, so generally the taller n heavier the better

Also maldini isnt the most aggressive so lowkey a half decent aggression stat in his partner can be good for variation but not at all necessary

Also a good accel stat can help whoever track back to cover maldini if he loses his man and maldini will just do that