goon wrote:That comp is very impressive given that it's all from a single game. Worth bearing in mind as well that he's only just turned 22, so only a couple of months older than Iwobi.
To be fair, Iwobi would look pretty solid too if you took his best game and made a compilation out of the best bits. The bloke was bossing it against Barca when he was 19. Not a fan of how every transfer target is used as a stick to beat him with.
Ricky1985 wrote:Admittedly only touch videos on YouTube, but I've been very impressed personally. He can play any pass he likes and he has an extremely good first touch and the close control to wriggle out of pressure.
Looks technically excellent to me.
Don't get me wrong, Torreira's a good player with a lot of potential and he fits my idea of a central mid, but I think people in this thread expect to get the finished article and he's not that. I'll reiterate that I haven't seen much of him so I can't offer much insight, but he's not rated among the best midfielders in Serie A currently and might still be two full seasons away from that level even if he keeps developing. If we had finished in the top four we probably wouldn't have gone for him, so people would do well to keep that in mind and not expect him to come in and turn on the heat in Premier League right away. He's not a technical genius either. The "Santi Kanté" stuff doing the rounds on Twitter is a little embarrassing. He's good on the ball, but you don't need to watch him much to see that he's more of a hardworking transitional player who presses high and low... which is what I personally wanted this summer. Fuck these static Xhaka players with good distribution who can't play when the heat is on.
Having someone like Torreira is going to be very good on the counter, I think. It'll also help to correct one of Wenger's worst weaknesses: our complete inability to apply any form of pressure early on when the direction of play changes.
