According to Romano's latest report, De Jong's agent has officially informed Manchester United and Barcelona Club that De Jong will not leave Barcelona in this summer window, nor will he accept Barcelona's request for a salary cut. At this point, De Jong's transfer deal has gradually become clear, and it seems that this soap opera will continue to drag on.
So, according to Romano, after Manchester United fails to introduce De Jong, they will participate in the competition for Leicester City midfielder Tielemans . There are currently rumors that Arsenal have begun to contact Tielemans and are preparing to spend 30 million pounds to introduce the Belgian core midfielder. Manchester United is already competing for Arsenal's target Lisandro, and they probably wouldn't mind grabbing Tielemans again. The question is, is Tielemans suitable for Manchester United?
Tielemans can play as a defensive midfielder but not as a defensive midfielder
Manchester United would choose Tielemans as an alternative to De Jong. It is indeed surprising, because the characteristics of De Jong and Tielemans are completely different. Before we discuss the technical characteristics, let’s first discuss the positions that the two are good at. Whether in Leicester City or the Belgian national team, Tielemans' best position is a player between the 8th and 10th positions.
As a right-footed player, Tielemans is mainly responsible for the area between the two penalty areas, which is what we commonly call the B2B midfielder type. So we can see that Tielemans scored 6 goals and provided 4 assists in 32 Premier League games, averaging one goal in 3 games. If Tielemans is a defender As for a midfielder, his offensive ability is too strong.
Tielemans is better at attacking than organizing
If we compare the game data of Tielemans and De Jong last season, we will find that Tielemans has only three statistics that are higher than De Jong. First of all, Tielemans averages 1.95 shots per game, which is 1.3 more than De Jong. Secondly, Tielemans averages 0.1 more goals per game than De Jong. ; Finally, Tielemans had 0.8 more steals than De Jong in confrontations.
These three data show that Tielemans is actually more suitable for directly participating in the offense, rather than being a player who arranges passes in the backcourt. Because De Jong's performance in terms of forward data, passing success rate, etc. is much better than Tielemans.
In addition, in terms of passing data, Tielemans and De Jong's average passing data per game are actually not much different, but Tielemans has a higher proportion of mid-to-long-distance passes, while De Jong seems to be better at mid- and short-distance passes. Distance pass. In Belgium's 1:0 victory over Poland in May, Tielemans scored the highest score in the game and had the highest touch ratio in the game, but his coverage was still a B2B midfielder role.
Secondly, Tielemans is not an explosive and fast player, but his coverage is very large. To a certain extent, you can think that Tielemans is a more stable passer than McTominay player of. His average number of confrontations per game reached 4, but his success in confrontations was only 48%, or even less than 60%.
Tielemans is equal to the attacking midfielder
I still don’t quite understand why Tielemans was chosen as a defensive midfielder, because it seems that Manchester United is about to sign a player with a role similar to Tielemans: Eric sen. So, if Tielemans is forced to play in the midfielder position, will it have the same effect as Pogba playing the midfielder? Judging from the current situation, the probability is still relatively high.
So, if Manchester United must use Tielemans as a midfielder, it means that Manchester United needs to place the soon-to-be-introduced Lisandro beside Tielemans to protect the space on both sides of Tielemans. The problem is that Manchester United has sacrificed the role of a frontcourt organizer. In fact, Manchester United already has three attacking midfielder players in B Fee, Van de Beek and the soon-to-be-introduced Eriksen. The introduction of another Tielemans will not actually help Manchester United's backcourt play.
