A guy who reads the game and covers defensively as well as Bentacur, and who scores, assists and delivers incisive passes more. That's not a dig at Bents, it's just that coz he's silky smooth on the ball people overlook his shortcomings yet are ready to stick the knife into PEH at every opportunity. I dreed to think how many points we'd have dropped in the past two season without PEH - he's no Fernandinho or Kante but Jesus wept give the guy some credit.
I cant wait for bissouma to get into the team and see what he can do, but it would not surprise me if its at the expense of bentancour rather than PEH (either way, happy to go with contes decision!).
PEH is stiff, so it sometimes looks awkward and means it will hit a horrible pass here and there, but he puts it all out on the field and comes up with very useful attacking output more often than he gets credit for. Bentancour moves so smoothly but im not convinced his production overall is better.
Will be interesting to see how our midfield evolves over the season.