Actually you make some good points. All DMs don't need to chase down players like Kante. Lindelof at CB is not going to allow him to be pressed nor is he going to hunt down players leaving empty space behind him. His passing and his reading of the game is good. He has got decent pace and his control and passing is a lot better than Fred and McTominay.
Can he play in midfield? We won't know until it's tried. I would like to see it in a decent cup game or an arranged match. Unless he turns out to be brilliant we need to get a new quality DM.
Ah yes, sorry, maybe I wrote it badly, I meant that his potential as a DM shouldn’t be judged on the fact that he doesn’t run around chasing players as
a CB. I forgot the username, but that user used the fact that Lindelöf doesn’t do those things
as a CB as an argument for why he’d be a bad DM.
It’s just not fair argumentation.
Lindelöf shouldn’t do those things when playing CB and that is the main reason for why he doesn’t do them, not because he’s unable or unwilling to. So we can’t draw a conclusion from that since it doesn’t say anything about his DM-skills.
Whether or not he would be a good enough DM for a club like Man Utd I can’t say before I’ve seen him play as a DM a few times. All I know is that he played DM in his youth career sometimes, so obviously at least someone at Benfica saw some potential in him for that position.
So I wouldn’t expect him to be horrible as a DM. He’s probably the most likely of all our CBs to play in that position, but if he’d have success as DM in the PL is a completely different story.