Ederson (defensive midfielder Atalanta)
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Zenmanc
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FYI... Wikipedia is tantamount to a dummies guide to facts... It shouldn't be your be all end all.
That was my point
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Fernandinho was an attacking midfielder for Shaktar until he was about 28.
If he has a couple of tools he can easily be coached into a pure DM if that is what Pep wants. But need to remember that actually having someone capable of covering ground and winning the ball in midfield could actually make current Gundo or Kovacic look competent as the holding midfielder playing beside him. Put 34 year old De Roon for example into our team and he will look like a pensioner. We need someone that can make life easier for the players we already have
If he has a couple of tools he can easily be coached into a pure DM if that is what Pep wants. But need to remember that actually having someone capable of covering ground and winning the ball in midfield could actually make current Gundo or Kovacic look competent as the holding midfielder playing beside him. Put 34 year old De Roon for example into our team and he will look like a pensioner. We need someone that can make life easier for the players we already have
johnny crossan
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It isn't but Wikipedia is a fantastic resource - if used intelligently. The simple point is that they are both described in it as defensive midfielders - which contradicts the claim "Title of the thread is wrong he is a central midfielder not DM" (which Dax is supporting) to the extent that the information in both entries is reliable. Which I believe it is.
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I think my claim was that some viewed De Roon as the DM and Ederson as the CM.not that i think that.
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I think if we are being technically accurate. They play with 2 central midfielders both kinda working the middle with Ederson being the more mobile of the 2 which lead some to concluded he is the CM and the other guy more the DM.
I don't care one way or the other, players are not positions and sometimes tactics change the meaning of a position. A DM is just a CM with a more defensive orientation.
More important is that he has the attributes to play DM. Kinda like Fernandihno when he joined us.
Uh........no....
johnny crossan
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That'll do me, sign him up.
Its a middle 2? Where are you getting 3.
He absolutely is a DM.
You need to actually watch Atalanta play, he very often slots in the back line to make it a 4.
It might get into semantics on the difference between a DM and CM.