Rumoured Charles Aranguiz

[oldportblue 547]

Can any Chilean on here confirm that this is indeed basically a done deal?

[Lukaz 19]

Can any Chilean on here confirm that this is indeed basically a done deal?

nope, the last news about it was from 2 or 3 days ago and most of the info came from England, the local media just repeated the info.

[chrismada9 1,948]

Question...

Does the potential signing of this guy hinder the possibilities of signing Isco? I'd love to see someone like him sign as well!

[xPetrCechx 13,570]

Question...

Does the potential signing of this guy hinder the possibilities of signing Isco? I'd love to see someone like him sign as well!

Isco > AMC

This guy > CM/DMC.

[BlueLyon 9,359]

I have seen he is quite agressive and strong for such small size, but can he add steel to our midfield? We were overpowered last season on many occasions.

But PL is whole different beast, hopefuly he will handle the likes of Schneiderlin well. Plus he is so small, he wont win a single header...

[Lukaz 19]

I have seen he is quite agressive and strong for such small size, but can he add steel to our midfield? We were overpowered last season on many occasions.

But PL is whole different beast, hopefuly he will handle the likes of Schneiderlin well. Plus he is so small, he wont win a single header...

smaller players have other ways to fight in the air, moving the opponent when they jump meesing they timing for a header, they don't need to clash with their oponents, if you see in the video of Aranguiz uploaded 3 or 4 post ago, he go usually from the side to get the ball. All this techniques are not exclusive of him, I just saying that exist a way to deal with everything. Smaller player usually have a low center of gravity, so they are not that easy to push when they are holding the ball, In fact he can create fouls in those situations (I'm not talking about diving) placing his body properly so he get fouls in those situationsother thing is when they are running. In the case of Aranguiz he doesn't carry the ball too much, he is more of passes so doesn't have issues with tackles against him. He move quick enough to avoid the fouls with bad intentions.

[BlueLyon 9,359]

smaller players have other ways to fight in the air, moving the opponent when they jump meesing they timing for a header, they don't need to clash with their oponents, if you see in the video of Aranguiz uploaded 3 or 4 post ago, he go usually from the side to get the ball. All this techniques are not exclusive of him, I just saying that exist a way to deal with everything. Smaller player usually have a low center of gravity, so they are not that easy to push when they are holding the ball, In fact he can create fouls in those situations (I'm not talking about diving) placing his body properly so he get fouls in those situationsother thing is when they are running. In the case of Aranguiz he doesn't carry the ball too much, he is more of passes so doesn't have issues with tackles against him. He move quick enough to avoid the fouls with bad intentions.

Obviously some small players can jump quite high and/or have different tecnhique to get that air ball.

I admit I havent seen Aranguiz but I checked his stats (something I rarely do with players, but Aranguiz is someone I only saw in few Copa games and WC last year, but I dont remember him much) and he has realy poor aerial duels stats on both squawka and whoscored. While its not something truly important, if he can battle for the balls in different ways, but our team aside from defence has only Matic who is capable to beat opponents in most air duels. Hazard, Cesc, Oscar, Willian just cant do it for obvious reasons, while even Costa is one of the players with worst jump I ever saw, considering his height and strength.

And the only reason Im putting this is because in Mou system, the way we play in big games, parking the bus or however you call it, you need physical dominance in midfield to protect the defence or the opponent will break through sooner than later. From what I seen Aranguiz is Ramires replacement with better technique based on his copa games. How will he fare in Premier league if we sign is another thing. Unless he is some extraordinary player with top mentality and phyisique, he will likely struggle in PL. Moving for first time in life at age 26...I dunno.

[laeth 527]

I have seen he is quite agressive and strong for such small size, but can he add steel to our midfield? We were overpowered last season on many occasions.

But PL is whole different beast, hopefuly he will handle the likes of Schneiderlin well. Plus he is so small, he wont win a single header...

Hazards a beast at getting to headers and he's tiny. His timing for the jump is impeccable.

[iseah100 5,612]

Poor mans Vidal.

[Lukaz 19]

Obviously some small players can jump quite high and/or have different tecnhique to get that air ball.

I admit I havent seen Aranguiz but I checked his stats (something I rarely do with players, but Aranguiz is someone I only saw in few Copa games and WC last year, but I dont remember him much) and he has realy poor aerial duels stats on both squawka and whoscored. While its not something truly important, if he can battle for the balls in different ways, but our team aside from defence has only Matic who is capable to beat opponents in most air duels. Hazard, Cesc, Oscar, Willian just cant do it for obvious reasons, while even Costa is one of the players with worst jump I ever saw, considering his height and strength.

And the only reason Im putting this is because in Mou system, the way we play in big games, parking the bus or however you call it, you need physical dominance in midfield to protect the defence or the opponent will break through sooner than later. From what I seen Aranguiz is Ramires replacement with better technique based on his copa games. How will he fare in Premier league if we sign is another thing. Unless he is some extraordinary player with top mentality and phyisique, he will likely struggle in PL. Moving for first time in life at age 26...I dunno.

he is not Mikel or Zouma to get physical, but will ran and recover balls as much as any other player, the difference with Ramirez is I think Aranguiz can keep the ball more and help the team to keep and move the ball around when is needed. He seems small, in fact Chile was the smaller team in Copa America but they were the most physical and intense team, so don't worry about that.

[CHOULO19 24,332]

From the vids Ive seen hes everything Ramires should be. If he was to come here, he would flourish under Jose.

Now just watch vids of Ramires to see everything Messi should be!

[termninja 5,290]

Now just watch vids of Ramires to see everything Messi should be!

Yeah fair point. Still I said in a previous post I've never seen him play

[Unionjack 7,531]

With Roman supposedly flying out to do the old pals act to get Witsel where does this leave us with Aranguiz?

[illmatic 901]

With Roman supposedly flying out to do the old pals act to get Witsel where does this leave us with Aranguiz?

If really we sign Witsel, surely we don't sign Charles. Don't have sense sign Him, if we buy Witsel. Similar style of player, both would have the same place and function on the team.

But I should to say that for me, the Witsel rumor is bullshit, sadly.

[Jype 6,398]

With Roman supposedly flying out to do the old pals act to get Witsel where does this leave us with Aranguiz?

I don't see why there wouldn't be room for both. Matic-Cesc-Witsel-Aranguiz to rotate deeper midfield positions and I'd bet Fabregas to often play AM as well so there would probably be more than enough minutes for Ramires too.