Kjetil Osvold's Cat
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No, I'm leaving cost completely aside - and I wouldn't consider Jorge a lightweight player anymore (although he certainly was when he left us).
What I see with him, is a player who has worked hard on the obvious flaws in his game - building up physical strength to allow him to impose himself on games and working on the defensive side of his game to compliment his more natural creativity.
He now plays in what would effectively be one of the two 'holding midfield' roles for us - albeit in Peterborough's 3-5-2 system - which does have two clear holding midfielders and a more advanced role, the advanced role usually being filled by Sammy Smodicz.
I don't - up to this point - seen anything in Joao to suggest he would work on his game to the same degree.
It would probably be a fairer comparison to put Jorge up against James Garner if we want a comparison to the current Forest team.
Interesting - maybe not a like for like comparison with Joao right now then, even in terms of role in the team. Maybe you'd see him playing in that deeper role, or at least as a central midfielder rather than number 10, if he ever played again for Forest then (not that that's a likely thing to happen)?