Gomes is not strong and Paulinho's strength is useless outside the opponent's box. Again, a player's physicality is not determined by his stature or physique itself, but rather how he puts it to use, if he puts it use at all that is.
I would also like you to tell me how a player like Paulinho who has no positional awareness and abandons his position in midfield to camp in the opponent's box is a "true midfielder?"
Arthur may not be the biggest or tallest midfielder, but he wins duels in the midfield and wins the ball back a hundred times better than Paulinho and Gomes combined.
You keep judging a player's physical ability by just looking at their height and weight. What really matters is how they play and use the body they're given. You would probably dismiss N’Golo Kante as a physically weak player by saying he's just 168cm tall.
There is always one short guy who plays like a beast in defense.
On the other hand, there are 90% of other short players who are, well, like Xavi, Iniesta, Denis and Coutinho.
Look, there is a world in between players like Denis and Iniesta and guys like Paulinho or Fellaini.
Rakitic is decent technically (although miles from Xavi) and he offers some physical presence, defense and tactical stability.
About Arthur, nobody knows whether he is the next Xavi or the next Song.
Again, at Barca, for every player, there is a higher chance that he is the next Song.
Arthur is winning balls and duels in a Brasilian league where honestly all teams play very attacking and without too much defending or tactical awareness.
So, imo, you should be more cautious about someone winning duels in a Brasilian league.
Also, about physical skills, again, I have a feeling that you are forgetting how we are bullied year after year in a CL from teams like AM, Juve, Bayern and similar.
Yeah, on some occasions we won, but on majority of days we are bullied in midfield against those tugs teams due to having a 3men midfield and physically weak players.
And you have to think longterm.
Coutinho will probably play here for 5+ years.
So, one Cm is already very weak and doesn't play defense.
We will be weaker than with Iniesta, and already with Iniesta in a 3men midfield, we sucked in defense against big teams in a CL.
So, we will be even worse than now.
And now, solution from majority of you: Alena or Arthur.
I mean, do you watch football as a sport with attacking, defending, duels and 10s of other factors or do you watch at football only in a way: technique and attacking?
Your remark how Paulinho can't do shit in defense and how playing him is like playing with 10men, then why is he playing in a Brasilian NT team also?
I mean, if they have a gem like Arthur, shouldn't it be wiser to play an awesome young footballer like Arthur than "a crap" like Paulinho, who isn't doing anything in attack or defense and who is just ruining everything whatever he does?
I guess that Paulinho possess naked pics of both EV and from a Brasilian NT coach, right?
Because there is no other reason why would 2 coaches use him, since again, he is doing absolutely nothing on a field.
