Arturo Vidal (67 Viewers)
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I thought Yaya was the best midfielder in England last season, he was City's best player en route to them winning the EPL, IMO he had a slightly better season than Vidal, who in comparison to other players in Juve, you could argue Pirlo and Tevez were more instrumental, its also arguable who was more impressive between Pogba and Vidal, even though this might be me biased to the Frenchman 
Though its tough to compare Yaya and Vidal, while both are box to box midfielders, I feel they offer different qualities. If you want your midfielder to defend, and be a good tackler, no doubt Vidal is better in that department, Vidal also has more stamina and energy. Yaya on the other hand is more technically sound, can score more goals(even though Vidal scores a lot of goals for a midfielder too) is stronger physically and is a much better dribbler. Yaya on his day is a slightly better player in my opinion, its pretty close though and you can make a compelling argument for either one.
Vidal is probably more all rounded than most midfielders out there, I'll give you that, I don't find any glaring weaknesses in his game to be honest.
I have no problem with people claiming he's the best box to box midfielder, its a perfectly valid claim, its definitely not a fact though
Though its tough to compare Yaya and Vidal, while both are box to box midfielders, I feel they offer different qualities. If you want your midfielder to defend, and be a good tackler, no doubt Vidal is better in that department, Vidal also has more stamina and energy. Yaya on the other hand is more technically sound, can score more goals(even though Vidal scores a lot of goals for a midfielder too) is stronger physically and is a much better dribbler. Yaya on his day is a slightly better player in my opinion, its pretty close though and you can make a compelling argument for either one.
Vidal is probably more all rounded than most midfielders out there, I'll give you that, I don't find any glaring weaknesses in his game to be honest.
I have no problem with people claiming he's the best box to box midfielder, its a perfectly valid claim, its definitely not a fact though
Arturo struggled second half, especially towards the end, because of the knee injury he was trying to play through. Tevez had a great season, Andrea is Andrea... those guys brought it. Pogba is amazing, but there's been so much hype around the young man in Europe during the past year, I think sometimes his contributions to date have been slightly exaggerated. He needs to bring more consistency, but I honestly think he can be the best in the world one day.
Yaya really took his offensive game to another level last year, and I do agree with your assessment about their qualities -- although Arturo is very technically sound, offensive enough to hang with the big boys, and I'd take him over Yaya every time. Can really impact the game without the ball, and his mentality is tremendous.
And for the record, I'm obviously as biased as they come, we're talking about our best player.
I'd gladly take 40M + Isco.