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Player Valuation: £1m
Siggy is a bit of a throwback player IMO. Has something in his locker, a moment of magic or great technique but he's not an all rounder. I'd say whenever we have played him out of his preferred 10 position he has struggled, and in that sense he better suits a team who actually have less of the ball, so they can sit back and soak up pressure and then rely on him to pull something out of the bag from the few chances they engineer a game. In our more possession based game he struggles to dictate play - he's great at an instinctive through ball but not as good with more controlled passing in general play, and for someone as technically good as him he rarely takes the ball on the half turn as Eriksen, Coutinho, Silva or Ozil do. He's in the same bracket as Walcott for me, a good but not great Premier League player who isn't going to take us to the next level and who is very good at a few specialist things but could actually hold back the team from developing a new style of play. That being said he can be a useful squad player for a couple of seasons more, but I imagine he will be sidelined pretty quickly when the midfield revamp begins in earnest.
