I think you’re creating binaries here. Nobody expects three Eriksen’s in CM- to suggest people expect that is just as unreasonable as the expectation itself. Poch himself has publicly stated that Dier is a much better CB than a CM. We don’t have to sign Pirlo mark II to probably get a more natural number 6 than Dier.
Agree with this. He's got more of a playmaker mentality than Moura...always dribbling with his head up looking for the incisive pass...in that way he's a bit like Eriksen. But, he has dribbling skills and pace that Eriksen just doesn't have. But, he doesn't have the striking ability of Eriksen or son but he isn't nearly as gun shy about taking a pop as Moura seems to be. I think he'd be a great understudy to Eriksen personally...and Eriksen plays far too many matches as it is. As for quickness, I bet he's a bit quicker than Moura flat out running but very few players anywhere are as tricky quick with the ball as Moura is. Pulisic is not that far behind though. We should remember too that he is doing this all at 19 years of age. He's only going to get better and this may be the last time we can afford him.
I'm just interested in hearing who would be a better fit that is likely achievable? Sure I'd love to have Busquets for that role but imo those types of players are amongst the rarest in the world.
I think of him as much better than Aaron Lennon but I just don't see him as really that much different than Lucas. I think they both serve the same role on the pitch and do the same things. Lucas came up as a 10 and then moved out to the edges of the pitch just as Pulisic has done at Dortmund, their speed allows them to attack players from that part of the pitch with their skills. I don't think either can dictate the tempo of a game like an Eriksen can. Maybe Pulisic can one day but he hasn't proved that in the Bundesliga yet.
Thiago is rumored to be available at Bayern, keep waiting for that link to pop up.
I think you, and other posters, are far more knowledgeable than me on the wider footballing market so would welcome suggestions too.
We'd fly to them if we were looking to negotiate!
You saw a BVB painted plane? I mean, i’d have a hard time believing they have their own private plane painted in BVB colors. You’d think their exec’s would fly around in something a bit more low key. Could just be an airline has a BVB livery on one of their planes that happened to make the London route today. Unless you know the tail number on their private jet, in which case, you’d think that information would kept private...
Just looked on flightradar as it immediately showed up on google searching borrusia dortmund plane. It was a scheduled commercial flight making a Dusseldorf-London-Dusseldorf routing
Maybe if his dad was German...
