Raketa10
Senior Member
Technique without physique wins against physique without technique.
Since technique alone is a core of footballing skills.
Technique with average physique wins against technique with weak physique.
World class technique with very good physique more or less wins against everything.
A current Barca has nice technique but quite poor physique, pace, strength, stamina, some level of aggression.
Of course that would be ideal but to find this kind of a player is unbelievably hard maybe even impossible at the moment. This description means basically top 3 midfielders in the world right now. Look at Sergej Milinkovic Savic, what a hype for an average player who was abysmal at this world cup.
If I had to choose between physique or technique I would always opt for technique. As things stand we basically have two options right now. Either to spend 60 or 70 mil on Thiago or 80 mil on Arthur and De Jong together and gamble with them. Maybe De Jong could become a world class combination of technique and physique one day but as I said it's a gamble and they for sure won't contribute much in their first year. In the end I am OK with either choice as long as we try to find a solution for our aging midfield.
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