Pjanic on the streets of Islington?

[Sir C]

What does he do, anyway?

[SWv2]

What does he do, anyway?

Midfield footballer for Juventus.

[the splendor of antigone]

Would be nice with someone who knows how to take a freekick. It makes sense with Cazorla being dead and all.
Lacazette, Pjanic, Lemar, Mbappe, and Mahrez Long gone are the days of Trabelsi, Kalou and Sebastien Frey rumors

[Sir C]

Midfield footballer for Juventus.

What sort of midfield footballer, sw? Holding midfielder? Deep-lying playmaker? No. 10?

I need facts man, not wishy-washy vagueness.

[redgunamo]

Would be nice with someone who knows how to take a freekick

And Calhanoglu has gone to Milan

[the splendor of antigone]

Calhan is just too good

[SWv2]

What sort of midfield footballer, sw? Holding midfielder? Deep-lying playmaker? No. 10?

I need facts man, not wishy-washy vagueness.

I am not sure why you wish to dumb down your understanding of the game to playground terminology such as “holding”.

One thing MP is not is a player whose focus is on defensive duties within a team structure, yet having played in Italy he is not adverse to the defensive side of the game. Is he a play maker, certainly he can be, is he restricted in his positioning and movement as to be “deep lying”, he is not.

I would say he could fulfil any positon in a midfield in a similar way to Cazorla could, yet you would not dream of labelling SC as a holding player or such like.

He is a very intelligent player on the ball, bought by Juventus to replace Pogba but to see one as a clone of the other would be incorrect and would simply further embarrass you down the pub when you offered the duo as a conversation piece.


What is going on here anyway, is he now being linked with a move from Juventus to Arsenal after but one season?

[Pokster]

I am not sure why you wish to dumb down your understanding of the game to playground terminology such as “holding”.

One thing MP is not is a player whose focus is on defensive duties within a team structure, yet having played in Italy he is not adverse to the defensive side of the game. Is he a play maker, certainly he can be, is he restricted in his positioning and movement as to be “deep lying”, he is not.

I would say he could fulfil any positon in a midfield in a similar way to Cazorla could, yet you would not dream of labelling SC as a holding player or such like.

He is a very intelligent player on the ball, bought by Juventus to replace Pogba but to see one as a clone of the other would be incorrect and would simply further embarrass you down the pub when you offered the duo as a conversation piece.


What is going on here anyway, is he now being linked with a move from Juventus to Arsenal after but one season?

OOOOOh look at you becoming the knowledge on here

[Just Trent]

I am not sure why you wish to dumb down your understanding of the game to playground terminology such as “holding”.

One thing MP is not is a player whose focus is on defensive duties within a team structure, yet having played in Italy he is not adverse to the defensive side of the game. Is he a play maker, certainly he can be, is he restricted in his positioning and movement as to be “deep lying”, he is not.

I would say he could fulfil any positon in a midfield in a similar way to Cazorla could, yet you would not dream of labelling SC as a holding player or such like.

He is a very intelligent player on the ball, bought by Juventus to replace Pogba but to see one as a clone of the other would be incorrect and would simply further embarrass you down the pub when you offered the duo as a conversation piece.


What is going on here anyway, is he now being linked with a move from Juventus to Arsenal after but one season?

He's certainly developed well in recent years. In his early days at Lyon he sometimes looked like a bit of a flaky number ten. A bit of Italian coaching has done wonders for him though. Last season Allegri used him in CM against Barcelona and he ran the show. Sounds like the end for poor old Santi though?

[Burney]

Calhan is just too good

Loved that show

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