Point taken.
I know what your saying.
My query is that I don't think City are paying for a 70 percent Busquets type player, essentially a deep lying playmaker with defensive attributes.
Busquests has taken on even more of that role as a matter of necessity due to Xavi and Iniesta having moved on.
Therefore he carries out a fair share of the building the play responsibilities at Barca.
However, City have two or three players at the club who can operate in that role from deep or even more who facillate in the build up.
Whilst one or two of them namely Gundogan may not be as robust as Busquets in the tackle, offensively Gundogan and kdb, if required can and or do play in that role.
The thing is given the amount of possession Barca tend to have I don't think Busquests defensive part of the game is something that he tends to need to utilise that much.
I see Rodri as 100 per cent Fern, defensively and positionally sound, putting out counters, screening the defence and with the ability to be in involved in building up the play.
Under Pep I think it's a fair chance he may improve in this regard even more and or even add goals to his game.
I see a very good auxillary defender in there too but time will tell.
However, although I see what you mean in relation to Rodri having similiar qualities to Busquests, the overriding facets of his game though I see as being similar to Ferns game.
It is Ferns type of game we miss when Fern is out, someone very physical with that capacity to read and see danger early which enable us to retain /dominate posession.
I don't think someone like Busquets who is a brilliant deep lying playmaker with defensive attributes is what City are after.
I reckon they feel there buying a player like Fern, who perhaps goes about the role in a more robust manner than Busquets but all the same in an intelligent way.