Here are the stats that prove the aforementioned to be total made up bs:
Eriksen: 22/23 season: 28 matches - 60.6 touches per match.
McTominay: 21/22: season: 30 matches - 56.7 per match. 3.9 less touches per match totally debunks the "hiding from the ball line.
Do know what counter pressing is?
if Player A has the ball. In order to stop Player B from closing down Player A, you'd need Player C to mark Player B.
Let's pretend for a moment that professional footballers know more about football tactics than the general fan.
If people don't like McTominay that's completely fine. What is not fine, however, is making up stuff, particularly when thd stays don't back up the lie.
Don't pretend that EtH is infallible. He's spent a fortune on Casemiro, Anthony and Mount and you could say that it's hardly improved the midfield.
I've seen him McTominay dominate the Norway midfield and hold his own against Spain (including scoring twice).
United are threadbare when it comes to central midfielders. If Mount plays there, it's going to be a bumpy ride.
I'm curious where you got those stats from. FBRef (which tends to be the most comprehensive stat site available to the general public) has very different.
Over the last 365 days (so basically the 22/23 season in the league and Europe combined):
Casemrio: 76.98 touches per 90 minutes
Eriksen: 74.46
Fred: 68.40
Bruno: 65.73
Sabitzer: 54.11 (in the PL only)
McTominay: 50.46
So even Sabitzer, somebody who also was getting many criticisms (and rightfully so) for barely getting involved, was getting on the ball more often than Scott. Otherwise he's getting on the ball about 35% less than Casemiro (the most direct comparison since they were mostly playing in the same position) and Eriksen, and about 25% less than Fred and Bruno.
21/22 PL season
Matic: 79.12
Fred: 72.03
Pogba: 71.92
Bruno: 70.73
McTominay: 59.76
VDB: 58.39
20/21 PL season
Matic: 92.52
Fred: 79.95
Bruno: 78.70
Pogba: 77.81
McTominay: 67.76
VDB: 59.26
19/20 PL Season
Pogba: 87.83
Fred: 85.67
Matic: 81.80
Bruno: 76.34
McTominay: 65.67
So Scott consistently has significantly less touches of the ball than our other midfielders, beating only VDB who gets even more criticism for being completely invisible. Averaging out over the seasons that they played together (obviously not perfect since they played different amount of games in different seasons but it gives a rough idea), he's on the ball 21% less than Fred, 24% less than Matic, 19% less than Pogba and 17% less than Bruno. With the differences being even larger last season. There are quite often games where he has about half the amount of touches as his midfield partner, with one game in 21/22 where he was almost a third of what Fred had.
Scott consistently moves around in an opposition players cover shadow (a seemingly new term for something that is perfect to describe what Scott does). It's nothing to do with marking that opposition player, in fact it's the exact opposite. He's going out of his way (either deliberately or not) to allow the opposition player to take him out of the game.
Do know what counter pressing is?
if Player A has the ball. In order to stop Player B from closing down Player A, you'd need Player C to mark Player B.
Firstly, that's not what counter pressing is. Counter-pressing is a strategy to disrupt the opposition as soon as you yourself lose the ball, quickly winning it back again before they have a chance to do anything with it.
Secondly, that doesn't even make sense. The way to stop Player B from closing down Player A is for Player C to make themselves available to pass to. Standing a few metres behind an opposition player does nothing to stop them closing down the player on the ball.