After leaving Argentina he went to Valencia where there's a lot of pressure. He failed. Then he went to Udinese where his biggest achievement is avoiding relegation and beating teams like Crotone, Parma, Cagliari, Torino, Genoa and the likes. I don't consider it such a great success that gives guarantees he will succeed at a top club. He's in a situation where there's zero pressure for him. Zero. De Paul is a GOD at Udinese. Even if when he has off games no one at Udine is going to complain. The expectations there are a lot lower.
What did Milito achieve at Genoa? Cambiasso and Sniper were flops and bigger gambles. DePaul has consistently been among the best midfielders in the league. A mainstay with the NT. Where's the concern?
If i had to choose between De Paul and Pellegrini, i would go with Roma player all the way.
Pellegrini is talented as hell, more so than RDP perhaps, but he's not a grafter. He doesn't have experience as the go-to-guy when results are going in the wrong direction the way DePaul has.
At a top club like Roma, or even worse, Inter, there's a lot more pressure to perform week in week out. You aren't allowed to have off days. Take our players for example. Even Lukaku, who is our best forward, and Barella, who is our best midfielder, a fan favorite and an Interista, are getting criticism from the fans when they don't play well.
So if we turn back the clock to 2009, would you go with under-no-pressure Diego Milito, or plays-for-a-top club Vucinic?
That's not the point, the point is you sign a player for his abilities and stats not because he produce offensively even with defensive duties. Like I implied earlier, you can't use that as a criteria or you will end up having to look at only players from small teams or defensive teams. You might as well go on and sign the likes of SMS, vidal of juve and koopmeiners (15goals this season) over de bruyne, Bruno Fernandes e.t.C.
this is not a general rule. You asked why I would chose RDP ahead of Pellegrini, bascially why he is more suited to Conte ball, and going forward he can play under any coach. He may not be world class but he is more of a guarantee to succeed at Inter. This would apply to players like Fabregas or KDB because they can produce in various systems under different conditions. We see with Eriksen there's a lot of tailoring that needs to be done for him to be of use to us. WHy not pick a versatile player who is a fit for our successful system?
Besides, even Pellegrino has had defensive duties and still produced good offensive stats. He played as cmf in his sassuolo days and in Roma a lot.
Roma and Sassuolo are attack-minded teams. They're not the sort to grind out 1-0 results like Inter. RDP would work for us in that sense.
I think de Paul has had the luxury of having almost all of the att play of udinese go through him, and he even takes all their set pieces, that's an advantage for him getting those goals and assists. Unlike Pellegrini at Roma where there are other attacking outlets which he had to share but yet he produced almost the same numbers as de paul. In a nutshell, it's easier to produce for a small team where there is low pressure and you are the main man, than when you play for big team with higher standards and different better and big players than you.
Luxury or burden? You realize if RDP doesn't perform Udinese are in relegation trouble?
The pressure of having to finish top four every season in a league where there are more than 5teams fighting for those slots and this teams strengthen each year, is a bigger obstacle than having to avoid relegation with the luxury of battling teams that are almost always by default going back to serie B after the first year they got promoted.
You just said Pellergrini has to share creative duties with other stars which is why his stats are lower, but that also means he is burdened less, if he has a bad game, there's Pedro, Mhiki, Dzeko, zaniolo, etc
With all his days in two know clubs in sassuolo and Roma? Been playing in serie a for years, more than de Paul. Lol. People barely know de Paul for his entire career, only in udinese. I just checked his biography and saw he played for Valencia and failed miserably there. That tells you a lot.
He flopped in Argentina too. So did Bruno Fernandes (various serie a clubs) and KDB (chelsea). What's your point? RDP has been a top 5 midfielder in the league last 2-3 seasons, in terms of stats and ability.