I hope and presume Mourinho plans to get him playing as something resembling a holding midfielder, and that he has the skillset to do that. My Saints fan mates all say he's more box-to-box by nature, and his stats seem to support that - here's his radar for all CM matches at Southampton over the last 4 seasons:
His standout stat there is that he has a fair amount of shots (e.g. more than Ndombele, Sissoko, Dembele, Winks, Wanyama or Dier). But also that he's well below average in actual goals scored! Indeed this season he had 46 shots in the PL, without a single one of them going in. Back in January my mate said this clip was Hojbjerg in a nutshell:
But I'm sure Jose knows what he's doing. And he has to be an improvement on Winks or Sissoko... Looking forward to seeing him in action.
His standout stat there is that he has a fair amount of shots (e.g. more than Ndombele, Sissoko, Dembele, Winks, Wanyama or Dier). But also that he's well below average in actual goals scored! Indeed this season he had 46 shots in the PL, without a single one of them going in. Back in January my mate said this clip was Hojbjerg in a nutshell:
But I'm sure Jose knows what he's doing. And he has to be an improvement on Winks or Sissoko... Looking forward to seeing him in action.