Tor Kristian Karlsen has always seemed to me like a bit of a fraud. For some reason he keeps getting jobs aroudn Europe, but he never seems to hold them down for long. I have always wondered what his background is. How did he get into the game in the first place? He just seems to have popped up from nowhere and somehow created a name for himself. I don't know why his opinion should be valued more highly than the opinion of anyone else who watches a lot of football.
As for Paulinho, I have seen quite a lot of him by now, and he simply doesn't appear to be good at anything apart from occasionaly making well-timed runs into the penalty area. Okay, he can perhaps also on a rare occassion play a creative pass/through pass in the final third. That is where it stops. As a sitting midfielder he is useless as he doesn't have any of the attributes needed to fill that role. He is not a playmaker from a deep position. Most of the time he doesn't seem to want the ball at all, and when he does get it, he rarely knows what do with it. He can't set up attacks from that position. Defensively, he is also useless. He moves his feet slowly, he doesn't cover the right areas, he is phyiscally weak. He is simply useless.
And, yes, I have seen him play for Brazil too. I saw him play in the Condfederations Cup before joined us, and I was very sceptical about him then. He was the least impressive player for Brazil in that tournament along with Hulk, and he played very much in the same way he does for us.
