Messigician
Senior Member
I feel like he will never reach Xavi's level 
Arthur
- Thread starter Jair Ventura
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I feel like he will never reach Xavi's level
Does he have to? Barca was playing beautiful football before Xavi as well.
Messigician
Senior Member
No but it's just a shame because he has everything to reach Xavi's level just his contribution in the final third let's hin down immensely.
Gnidrologist
Senior Member
Xavi for CM was what Messi is for an attacker. You don't realistically expect every new talent get to their level of greatness even in current lifetime, let alone next generation.
xXKonan
Senior Member
Reaching Xavi levels was always going to be impossible considering he's an all-time great in his position. Same with the likes of Iniesta.
Arthur can and will improve as time goes on. And you also have to look at the coaches he played under so far. Tite and Valverde are conservative coaches who like to have players drilled to do certain things and it seems under both Tite and Valverde, he's tasked with keeping posesssion and help maintain control of the Midfield while the Fullbacks/Forward line does the creation.
But it does get annoying to watch sometimes like yesterday with Brazil. It seems like Arthur and the other CMs are forced to just pass it to Neymar and let him do the rest. Same here with the pass to Messi stuff.
Arthur can and will improve as time goes on. And you also have to look at the coaches he played under so far. Tite and Valverde are conservative coaches who like to have players drilled to do certain things and it seems under both Tite and Valverde, he's tasked with keeping posesssion and help maintain control of the Midfield while the Fullbacks/Forward line does the creation.
But it does get annoying to watch sometimes like yesterday with Brazil. It seems like Arthur and the other CMs are forced to just pass it to Neymar and let him do the rest. Same here with the pass to Messi stuff.
Joan
Well-known member
Then he doesn't have everything to reach Xavi's level. Anyways, there's a long career in front of him and he already starts for Barca and Brazil. I wouldn't worry about Arthur.
serghei
Senior Member
Yeah, well said.
Joan
Well-known member
I miss seeing Paulinho play. Did he at least score? How did Arthur do, more importantly?
xXKonan
Senior Member
He was fine considering he was playing mostly as a DM for 90% of the match.
Paulinho on the other hand... was dreadful and he didn't score either.
Total-Football
Senior Member
put on his shift. He did nothing wrong and still dared to make successful forward passes. Class player and an indisputable starter to me.
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