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All true and it makes a mockery of the £100m valuations the media puts on these players.Games like yesterday massively illustrated the weakness of both — neither of them can play with the ball in the middle third, they need that conductor type of player there for them. Rice wants to protect and screen the back 4 and that’s about it, whilst Bellingham wants to make runs further forward and impact the final third.
England don’t - and haven’t had for years - the type of central midfielder who kind of sits in the middle of the football field, averages a feck tonne of passes, and ensures the ball circulates around without things getting too stale.
I saw that Florian Plettenberg guy saying again yesterday Dortmund want €150m for Bellingham. How on earth can any club be expected to pay that for the English Leon Goretzka? Yes, Bellingham is a very good player for a specific role. However, he's never going to be a Veratti type midfielder.
The people who say he can do 'everything' just see a big lad, who has good stamina, good touch and passing and gets up and down the field. That's not everything. That's just the stuff we tend to value in England.
As for Rice, Talksport were trying to say he's better than Casemiro two nights ago. Utter madness. Casemiro is levels above him and it's fairly clear Rice will never be able to pass like Casemiro. He's just this generation's David Batty. IMO Nicky Butt was a better player than Declan Rice.