first can you refer to the strange things that i say ??? and i’ll show the real strange things that you say.. witsel is playing offensively ?? that’s a joke right ?? witsel is pure defensive cm..you can see more matches for him before you say things that you don’t know..
and when nainggolan played for belgium in the first place to correct witsel’s mistakes that you talk about ?? nainngolan played just 10 matches for belgium and most of them come from the bench..i don’t think you know what you saying..witsel played 54 matches for belgium and he’s always start
then you started to talk about our cms and you compare them with witsel... i told you in previous post that he’ll come in case of selling pogba.. so he plays as defensive cm and vidal,marchisio easily playing around him in cm..
and about the marketing value of witsel you use double standards i mean you say that vidal worths double witsel’s value so it’s 80 million..when vidal worth 80 million or just you imagine ??? and the higher marchisio worth came from monaco and it’s about 25-30 million..and don’t let me start about asamoah’s value which is more less than marchisio..so don’t just make things up
See, this is the thing. You know very little of Witsel, Nainggolan, and the belgian NT.
For a while, despite having an exceptionally talented generation, we fucked it up. We kept fucking it up. At some point, the NT coach introduced Simons. An aging cm to bring balance to the team, that was largely imbalanced. When the talented generation kept improving and doing well, the results improved, but we never really played close to what we can do, and our midfield was a horrible joke.
We scraped trough to get to the world cup, in a group that was talentwise so far behind us. All the offensive players and wingers, kept underperforming. At the worldcup, we needed a lastminute goal in each of the 3 groupgames, while beeing in a group with the 3 worst teams of the entire worldcup. Argentina later humilliated us, by making chance after chance, scoring and afterwards, lock the play up, we didnt get a single chance in the entire game.
But allready then, there was great controversy around Nainggolan. Back at cagliari, despite beeing extremely good, our NT coach didnt even bother watching serie a. So he went to Roma. Then when he came at the NT finally, he was dropped cause he had a disagreement with Kompany, wich created quite the fuzz around here,as most people who actually watch football knew we were leaving the only actual CDM (and a very fucking good one) at home.
After the worldcup, Wilmots decided to use Nainggolan. Suddenly, the entire team explodes. Hazard, De bruyne, whatever central forward, they all start to play to their level. Nainggolan is now widely regarded by every analyst as the only CM that is a certitude. We cant play without him in the midfield, because he balances out the entire team.
Defour did it a bit, but isnt good enough to do it entirely on his own.
Witsel and De Bruyne at some point tried to do it at the worldcup. We were mocked about cause Witsel is a horrible defensive cm, who is the opposite of Marchisio. Always out of position, never cutting run and passing lines, poor tactical sense.
Nainggolan is simply doing it. He allows the other 2 cm's to be alot more free with a decent workrate while he balances out the midfield
What you are doing, is simply looking at statistics. I actually watch all our games.
You go on saying Witsel should be a defensive cm. Thats the big mistake. He is simply awfull at it. Witsel thrives if he can play forward with not to much defensive work, and infiltrate the opponents defence. Bit like Marchisio used to do a few years ago.
It is extremely obvious to everyone, that Marchisio is the CDM, and Witsel and Vidal should play ahead of him. But witsel would be such a huge drop in quality, and the team would be better off using asamoah instead, or go 4231.
Market value, is market value. Its not what benfica sold him for. At this point Witsel is worth about 25 mil. Vidal is still over 40 mil. Cheesio was 30ish before his injury, and Pogba is 50+mil
40mil for Witsel, would be a good joke for EPL teams.