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I watched his highlights, looks a lot like O’Brien in the way he plays, his passing doesn’t look anything worse than any of our midfielders, but he also doesn’t stand out as an exceptional passer. He’s more of a ‘busy’ player and pops up in different areas of the pitch. I think he’s a player Carrick would play tbf, though he’s definately more of a #8 and looks like he’d get knocked off the ball a lot.

It's tough to find loads of stats for the Danish Superliga to be fair. But the point I was responding to wasn't whether he'd improve us, it was whether Carrick would play him, and it seems like he's plenty capable enough on the ball to fit the bill. I have no idea if he'd improve us. His numbers that I can find look pretty good, and he's broken into the first team at the age of 20 in Denmark, so there's clearly something about him at least. But his passing numbers are good, which was the relevant bit.

Aren’t Villa still due a points deduction if they come back down.

It's the top tier. They're just playing in the relegation scrap. The division gets cut in half with a third of the season left like in Belgium. The Danish league actually get's a lot of praise for being relatively high paced, tactically good and technically much better that the other scandinavian leagues. It often takes foreign players a bit of time to get used to it. Reckon it's very much comparative to the championship. Boro certainly wouldn't win the league and I think Copenhagen would have a very good chance of getting out of the Championship. Players like Emil Riis and Pukki both looked pretty poor in Denmark but have been good in England. Mads Hermansen who got into the team of the season as keeper in the Championship played in a team that finished 6th in Denmark last season.

It probably needs more context to make it a useful stat but in isolation, it's not a stat that makes me think he's a player that would improve us.