I hear you, but casado like you yourself said, probably needed a extra season in the B team.
This casado is miles better than anything de jong did for us in years.
Pedri is more playing as a proper CM, than a pivot TBH, double Pivot, but he's very much a CM running the game, but I get what you were getting at.
Yeah, the extra time under Marquez to marinate helped too. I think on that tangent, that the B team crop would be developing a longshot better had Marquez stuck around or we signed a better coach there.