It's a team game at the end of the day and Middlesbrough (who finished only 10th last season) would have been outplayed by a lot of teams above them, so Azaz would see far less of the ball. Feels like a bit of a cherry picked stat to be honest.
Yeah, hardly a revelation that teams at the top of the table are harder to play against and concede less goals than those at the bottom.
I could definitely be wrong, haven’t watched too much of him. I’d agree that he’s more similar to Fernandes in that he has more to his game. I get the impression Azaz and Spertsyan are purely AM and don’t really have the all round skill set to play further back. But I still thought Rudoni was primarily an AM that can fill in at CM and at a push out wide. Whereas Fernandes is more of a CM who can fill in at AM or out wide. I certainly got the impression we were looking at Rudoni to fill the AM role that we've been trying to sign regardless of outgoings all summer. That he has more to his game would only be a benefit. Anyway, we aren’t getting him (this summer) so it doesn’t matter No Saints fan wants us to sell Fernandes because there's basically no chance we can replace his quality, but yeah, especially this late into the transfer window we'd be leaving ourselves with a lot to do. We'd then have to keep one of Aribo or Smallbone otherwise we'd have to bring in two CMs! If we sell both then we still need to bring one in anyway. Plus the two wingers. Just realised this is the Azaz thread and not the transfers one or the other transfers one. Soooo. Let's hope Azaz is done and dusted today and can feature against Watford on Saturday!
