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Originally Posted by OldRed1
What do you mean by the 'highest level'? If you mean playing in the Premiereship then Evans has done that, If you mean playing Internationals against top opposition (eg Spain) then Evans has done that, if you mean playing for United then he's little chance of doing that if he's not at OT. Maybe we should let him go for 5mil then if he proves to be the terrific player a lot think he'll be buy him back for 20mil.
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There is a big difference between small EPL sides and big EPL sides. Richardson is the classic example of that. He saved West brom arse, he also had the international debut anyone would dream of having, and yet.....he was pretty shite with us. Taibi is another example. The classic case of a player who was capable of playing incredibly well at small team's level and yet he kept on bottling it when playing with bigger teams.
As stated before Evans is just a young defender with potential, nothing more nothing less. He will have to work hard to remain in the team (expecially since we are already well stocked up of 'potential greats' who werent able to develop to the next level) let alone win a first team place. As stated before, this 'you're destined for greatness' attitude will only damage the player. We are already well stocked up with such talent on the bench not to forget the countless number of new Bruce's and Gary Neville's we have shown the door in the past few years.