Baby Jesus on a motorcycle.
- Joins us from a foreign league
- No pre season, recovering from an injury
- A first team that's not settled in
No idea why some are so quick to judge. It should hardly come as a shock that a midfielder from a foreign league needs a bit of time to settle in and adjust to the tempo.
In regards to complaining about lack of goals and assists, I doubt his main purpose on the pitch is to provide that. If his presence on the pitch allows Pogba to play with more freedom, and we unlock his full potential, then I'll sure as hell prefer that over another midfielder that adds a goal or an assist every once in a while. You can get players that gel with the rest of the team, making the whole team play better, without being the one banging in goals or assisting others. Look at the effect Edgar Davids had at a struggling Barcelona team.
Now, I'm hardly saying that Fred is going to turn us into an awesome-sauce team, destroying every opponent, but having a go at a newly signed player that's had no pre-season, complaining that he doesn't look like a footballer that will add goals or assists and is thus a pointless player, just seems a bit daft.