I don’t think they are different types of midfielders now. They’re both essentially ball carriers. They play in the same areas, or at least start in them. They’re both there to relieve the luddites of the ball and get it to the piano players. Maybe beforehand Silva was the piano player, but now his main attributes are basically strength, retaining posession and short passing. That’s what Dembélé does well.
I’m on the wind to some degree in my initial post. I like watching Dembélé and have considered him very underrated…but it’s weird how the entire media notices these things simultaneously and the public can only measure everything by it being The Best. A month ago, outside of Spurs fans, hardly anybody noticed him.
Would enjoy watching a weekend of 1st in England vs. 1st in Spain, 2nd vs. 2nd etc. All the way down to west Brom-deportivo for the ‘vest league in the world!!’ trophy. Maybe add in serie a and get the bundesliga to add another couple of teams and they can join in.
would love this, and i can also see it being accepted by the organisers cos it would increase interest in countries that would otherwise have lower viewing figures… so more £££ and ultimately that’s the thing that would make them change their minds