Eriksen averages 20-30 goal involvements per season in the Premier League.
He’s an absolutely phenomenal player. Pogba is slightly better at most. De Bruyne is handily better than both.
This. Eriksen and Pogba are alone in the tier below De Bruyne as far as PL midfielders go. Pogba for his potential top level being so high, and Eriksen for his actual performances.
If we hadn’t made such a mess of our midfield over the last 4-5 years, he’d be the ideal pick up and we should be all over it, but as things stand and with the difficulty we are having offloading our surplus mids we just don’t have space for him or his wages on this team.
On your Beppe point, didn’t we just extend Matuidi? Or was that only reported? Regardless, it seems it is just a club thing and not specific to our last manager. Also, as Tootsie was our guy scouting, and getting ready to take over as sporting director, I’d imagine he was part of the deal for Can and extending Sami. Who knows, but I doubt Marotta was doing all this solo without any consultation with Tootsie, Nedved, Agnelli.