Your looking at this the wrong way round.
Explain why being strong and quick aren't positive attributes to have?
How can you discount those attributes?
What no one has been able to explain is when Norway said he disguises positional deficiencies with his speed and strength. Other than choosing to use the word "disguise". Why is it a negative for him to have pace and power to save situations?
Remember of course pace and power comes in handy when covering other mistakes and allows us to play higher up than you could otherwise with cart-horses like Konchesky and Hall or even Hill at the back
Pace and power are very much a massive part of the modern day footballer. Despite your decision to ignore it, actually It's part of what makes up a footballer.
You could have the best positional sense in the world but if your weak and slow you ain't going to be a footballer.
Nedum Onouha has played his whole career before now at Prem level with one exception a promotion season from this league as a key part of the best defence in the league. He's experienced and intelligenty so its plain wrong to say he doesnt have positional sense.
If he didn't get playeD out of position so often and was white and had a more English name like Grant Hall he wouldn't get anywhere near such unfair an unbalanced assessments.
I guess Hall is more easy to relate to than a black guy from Manchester with an unusual name.
Hall has come in for so much over-exagerated praise this year vs Onouha in their stats:
Tackles per match: Hall 0.7 Onouha 1.9
Interceptions per match: Hall 3.4 Onouha 3
Clearances per match: Hall 5.9 Onouha 5.9
Blocks per match: Hall 0.5 Onouha 0.9
https://www.whoscored.com/Players/11669/Show/Nedum-Onuoha
https://www.whoscored.com/Players/70513/Show/Grant-Hall
When you see that its hard to think that the sub-conscious isnt involved in skewing reality.