He was one of the best young players in Europe, and he lost a season and a half or more of development at a critical stage of his career. He also had to deal with the psychological fallout of what happened. That is an incredible amount of mental stress and personal turbulence for someone to deal with, especially someone so young. It is logical to assume that this also detracted from his professional development.
What would we expect from Greenwood had he not been charged and placed under house arrest? Surely we would be expecting 15+ goals/season and a starting place at our club. He is just not there now, so from a football development standpoint he took a big backward step in his career, and football careers are so short that this has lasting impact through the years. Maybe he will get back to where he would have been, but i don't see how this could be true logically... Hence my lowering the ceiling comment.
Sorry but all the above reads as is the club you support no longer have access to a player, said player is going to be successful elsewhere so you’ve built some mythical ceiling that he’ll never reach no matter how good he eventually becomes.
His
ceiling remains the same, he’s lost valuable time in getting to it but his
ceiling isn’t significantly lower. I agree he’s had a ‘set back’ in his development but that doesn’t not collapse his
ceiling.
What’ll happen is, he will go to a major European club & win things so to make yourself feel better you’ll talk of some career he didn’t have all whilst he was ‘never’ any better than Caf fav Buyako fecking Saka anyway.
He’s not scoring 15+ goals because he’s on loan at some mid-table Spanish team, this is where context matters & the discussion ventures into being disingenuous. You could be coming at this saying he’s spent 18 months out the game so some ramping up is required & he’s playing in a team that doesn’t always dominate but no.
When, if ever, was the last time Getafe got 15 goals from a 21 year old RW? Might be last season for all I know but I highly doubt it is a regular occurrence around La Liga as a whole.
I get it mate, I’m pissed he likely won’t make it here too.