Barcelona star Pedri has been receiving plenty of praise this season after starring for club and country.
Manchester United legend Paul Scholes has described him as a “combination of Xavi and Andres Iniesta” and has now gone a little further to explain why he’s such a fan.
Scholes has been asked to name his top five current midfielders and put Pedri top of the pile.
“My number one is Pedri. He’s like Xavi and Iniesta in one. He can beat a man. And we’re not talking about legs. We’re talking about the
brain of a footballer,” he said.
“Sometimes he’s in tight situations and the way he gets out of it with a little one-two or a drop of the shoulder. Technique is brilliant.”
And Pedri isn’t the only Barcelona player in Scholes’s list of top midfielders. He also revealed that Frenkie de Jong was another of his favorites.
“[De Jong] I love watching technical players. I’d have him as Number 5,” he added.
Scholes filled out his top five with Liverpool star Alexis Mac Allister at number 4, PSG’s Vitinha at 3 and Manchester City and Spain star Rodri taking the runners-up spot behind Pedri.
