For those who complain, who is your suggesting alternative that can be signed with 1.5M salary?
For Agoume he is even a worse player compare to Asllani
Just looking at the basic or maintain possession: pass completion and passes attempted, Asllani at least doesn't lose the ball that easy.
Agoume even when I watched him has a lot of mis-passes.
As a midfield his contribution in the attack phrase is not bad, especially his position is a relatively further back.
He is able to find himself in shooting positions and good xAG, so his "failing killer passes" are not as bad as it feels.
The bad feeling we get, I think I understand where it is coming from, his progressive passes and progressive carries screams volume, I am not sure if it is a result of the instructions on Inzaghi, to limit his mistakes as a more inexperience player, cause I remember the first few games when Asllani played, it was almost only progressive passes and lots of take-ons attempt, which he all shy away from now.
That is probably why we have the feeling he is just doing jack, while overly rotating and recycling the ball and wait for the better opportunity to attack (not creating the space to create the play).
Despite so Agoume still is behind in the progressive passes.
Asllani's defense is not on the flashy side, so no tackle from behind, flying over to block etc. but he had good interceptions in defense position, he converted a bit in helping to press up more this year, which is not reflected in this data, but that normally would lead to less of a positional interception.
He is definitely no Totti or some young genius player type, but he can definitely shows potential he can develop up to Brozo and Hakan liking, again potential.
His biggest weakest is his physicality, he is for sure a very slow, not strong and not even high in agility player, so he really has to learn to make every one if his touches more effective and how his body is facing when receiving the ball.
His other problem is his off ball position, which I say improved this season so far.
I don't see how he is a failed developing project? Like again he is no Cassano, but is he developing while delivering something, I would say so; I don't expect 2 Hakan on the team.
Plus it is always hard to play in your non-natural position; tempo control is not his thing, that is why he either tries the hardest to not lose the ball, or attack; like his actions and choices are always fine when he is in the final third, cause he is just finding ways to attack, it is not tempo controlling. To extend further, people are even expecting him to do game control, like how Hakan and Barella would speed up and slow down, shifting the movements of both teams from 1 side to another; if that is your expectation, I don't think you can be happy with any player within our budget for a youth development, Barella is WC, I don't even think Federico Valverde can replace Barella in that sense, just look at his Uruguay games, also why Madrid is doing so bad without Kross and Modric.
Not doubt there are a lot of players that are better than Asllani right now, but they are also older and lot more expensive:
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