I am sad for Seri.
I haven't watched him before, but he wasn't too good in these 2 games.
He was horrible yesterday. Slow as Rakitic at times. Tired all the time, unable to run in attack in counters. Horrible in defending.
Also, there is a chance that he is way older than 26 and that he could lose physical abilities very fast (and he is already weaker and slow in that area).
To some extent, he offers nice passing (some sort of Xavi), but in terms of pressing, defening, tackles, counters, running, he is on Arda's level. Or even worse than Arda.
If we have bought him and he turned to be a new turtle, people on forum would yell: fuck this board, another 40M wasted (Arda, Gomes, Paco, Seri).
Now, if we won't buy him, people will yell again: fuck this board.
Again, I have watched only youtube videos where he looked fine.
But yesterday, against a stronger opponent, he was horrible.
He is good in going deep like Xavi, collecting the ball and passing it sideways and he has nice off the ball movement while he is asking for the ball.
But that is more or less it.
If his real level is somewhat close to a level of yesterday, I don't see how he could help on a Champions league level.
Some people will reply: but he was awesome in Ligue1 last season.
Well, even Neymar looks like the best player in the world in Ligue1 with 23-24 successful dribbles and 3 goals in 180 minutes.
I haven't watched too many matches from a French league in the past.
I watched Psg-Tolouse and Nice-Napoli in the last 3 days, and all I can say: Tolouse and Nice don't run too much and teams don't press as much as in La liga.
La Liga teams like Betis, Rayo and any random team are running and pressing like crazy.
While French teams play more like Italian Seria A midtable teams, with less running and pressing (unlike Spain and England).
Match from yesterday was posted already, but you guys should look at Seri's physical skills.
He doesn't run too much and his pressing and defending are horrible.
And again, most of his passes are sideway passes and backpasses, and some random long balls which were intercepted all the time: