it doesn’t make you right just cos you knew him before i do..and if you say that asamoah is better than him..can we sell asamoah for 40 m as witsel worth ? i don’t think so
You really are saying the strangest things here.
First you start by saying "witsel is massive signing". Witsel plays best as a CM who can mostly infiltrate forward. But Witsel is greatly limited. His defensive positionning is horrid. At Belgium he is known to be running out of position all the time when not actively coached. Our midfield improved immensely when Nainggolan is there, who corrects him all the time and covers his mistakes. Witsel is one of the key weaknesses we have. He's nice allrounded
offensively and he's good at infiltrating, but for a cm that doesnt compensate his defensive and positionning shortcommings.
Lets follow that path. Is witsell a massive signing considering he's a cm ?
Current starting CM : Marchisio, Vidal, Pogba.
Marchisio is hands down a better player. Replace him with Witsel and our midfield collapses. Despite beeing 3 years older and in a financially poor league, he's valuated nearly the same as Witsel aswel. Says enough.
Pogba i probably dont even need to explain. He's better then Witsel in everything, and double the value.
Vidal, despite comming of a serious injury and having an average season, still worth allmost double. Different style from witsel, but defends MUCH better, better positionning, MUCH higher workrate, more assists and more goals.
So, all our starting CM's are higher valuated and clearly better then Witsel. Wich removes the possibility of him beeing anything other then a very good benchplayer. And no, Witsel is a poor CAM.
Asamoah ? Bit lower in value, but playing a position thats undervaluated in comparison. Better and more complete player, and more versatile.
Lastly, you mention the 40mil that Witsel was sold for. Excellent business by Benfica that was. And taking a look at Witsels market value, we see that he has since dropped quite a bit in price despite merely beeing 26 years old, wich is before his prime.
If we need a CM or CAM from the Belgian team, it would eighter be Nainggolan, or De Bruyne. Those players i hold MUCH higher in regard