Mourinho eyeing Van de Ven? Madness or masterplan?

On paper you can understand the attraction because pace in defence changes games and gives you recovery options that slower centre-backs simply do not have, but the more you think about Mourinho wanting him the less it adds up, because this is the kind of player people usually want for a higher line and more aggressive covering rather than sitting deep and dealing with constant box defending, and then you add in the fact that the price is being thrown around in such a ridiculous range and it starts to feel like a story built out of hype, speculation and a bit of wishful thinking, which is exactly why these windows do my head in, every day it is a new headline, a new fee, a new club supposedly interested, and by the end you have no idea what is real and what is just people taking the piss
 
The tactical angle is simple enough really, if you want a defender to protect space behind him then Van de Ven gives you that recovery pace and allows the line to stay higher, but if Mourinho is genuinely the guy asking for him then I am not sure the rest of the setup makes sense because he is not the sort of centre back who wins every duel in a deep block and that is where the debate comes from, so the fit is questionable even if the talent is obvious
 
People are acting like this is a done deal and it is absolutely hilarious because half the thread is already talking about him as if he has failed there before he has even signed, proper internet football nonsense
 
The funniest part of all this is how quickly people go from pretending they know the player inside out to declaring he would be a disaster at the biggest clubs in the world, and I am not even saying he is flawless because nobody is, but the amount of certainty flying around is mad, one minute he is a pace merchant and the next minute he is apparently not fit for the shirt, all based on rumours that may not even be properly sourced, and then you get the fee being pushed around like it is some official number when it is obviously just gossip, and honestly the whole thing just sums up transfer discourse now, everyone shouting over each other like they have the inside line when really none of us know anything until someone actually signs or doesnt sign and even then people will still argue about it for weeks
 
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