goon wrote:
Ornstein reckons we're after a box to box, does he fit that profile?
He's an 8, not a box-to-box. He's a very technically gifted player. Even though I mentioned Ramsey, he's not going to replicate some of Ramsey's attributes of getting into the box and scoring. He didn't score tons of goals before but that might be a result of not playing as much.
Rather, he is going to get on the ball and dictate play. He is a very good passer with an extremely high passing percentage, and a very high number of completed passes into the final third. So he's a proper playmaker, the kind we haven't had since Cazorla maybe. If you look at our midfield and its inability to retain the ball or to distribute from the middle, this is the guy who would solve this. So the type of role people were saying Iwobi should move inside and do, he would do much better.
