Looks like you misunderstood my post.
You were talking about attributes of FDJ and suggested signing a similar player, albeit of lesser quality (whilst declaring you don’t get paid to identify such players). You’ve been saying that Caicedo is a better fit than Mount and I was pointing out that when comparing FDJ’s attributes to those of Caicedo and Mount, Mount is rather more similar to FDJ than Caicedo is.
I wonder if you have seen much of Mount? Possibly you haven’t been purposely tuned into evaluating him which would be quite understandable, why would you necessarily bother? And actually he is not an easy player to describe. When we were first strongly linked with him, I posted “What IS he?”. The first reply I got said “A footballer, apparently.” Strangely, that reply was exactly right. He doesn’t have a specific, conventionally recognised position but he is a footballer, and a good one. EtH would rather have FDJ but I think he has looked at Mount and thought “this guy could do something similar”.
What can I say. If I’m wrong I’ll donate my slippers to Oxfam.
I don’t think FdJ and Mount are similar at all. Just because they can dribble and pass doesn’t mean they are both similar.
why I’d be happy with Caicedo is because he is a proper central midfielder who if it works out can be at our club for a long time. He could easily replace Casemiro in couple of years time. My opinion is that Bruno, Casemiro and Caicedo partnership would work much better than Bruno, Casemiro, Mount midfield. We don’t even have to sign Caicedo but someone like FdJ is okay as well. Caicedo is a good option right now because we don’t know if and when another similar talent would be available in the market for something like 80m.
Signign Caicedo would mean weakening our rivals as well. That’s an added bonus.
We had a similar dilemma with Pogba as well, I see Mount as someone similar with better workrate and less skill on the ball. We have attempted to play Bruno, Eriksen, Pogba before in that role and none of them have adapted. For me there is no reason to believe Mount will transform successfully. If anything prior experiences shows that it will end badly.
even if Caicedo doesn’t work out moving him on would be easy. Mount will never move outside of England and no one in England will match what we will pay him. That will be another saga on its own.