Memphis will always divide opinion because he is a flair player - like Di Maria & Nani
All three will try flicks when a simple pass in on, have shots from 30 yards that have people 50 rows back ducking and might also get caught out defensively.
In my opinion though, give me a player who tries things and has real raw ability over a Lingard or a Mata any day. You can afford to have one player, especially a winger, who is a bit of a maverick when you are playing teams who put XI behind the ball.
Some people need to realise that you cant have your cake and eat it. The same people slagging off Memphis will be over on the LvG out thread saying we are boring, conservative and pedestrian....
The thing with Memphis is that unlike di Maria and Nani, I haven't seen any of his fancy things work, nor have I seen him try that many actually.
The thing he tries consistently is long shots, that's not the mark of a flair player. He doesn't seem to have a large number of tricks 1v1 with a defender, it's mostly feint one way, go the other. And nowadays since people have worked that out, it's feint inside, go outside, cross. If it worked everytime it's still ok but hardly in the same league as Nani, who could shoot with both feet and was utterly unpredictable for his marker.
Memphis seems strong, decently quick but not rapid, and has shown very few flashes of vision. His crossing and shooting is strictly ok. I definitely don't see him as an antidote to our sterile play, like Nani sometimes used to be in SAF's last season.
Of course, he can get better, I just hope the raw materials are still underneath somewhere.