I think its international football most of the time, it seems to leave a big imprint of people's heads.
I've seen this with Rice for england, milinkovic savic - even I've used Sancho's RW performances for england to tone down my hype a bit for him.
Rice's passing stats have been 87% accurate throughout the season last time I checked in the PL.(I'm not accurate myself with data though).
I think you’re right. People see one game and think they can judge a player.
It’s like the Camavinga PSG game. I guarantee barely anyone watched that game but people go on about it like he’s the second coming and ignore all other games he’s played since.
It’s all flavour of the month with some people rather than being open to actually gaining an informed opinion or learning from others.
You’re slightly off with his stats it’s 86%.
Sorry for the ranting but it’s just a frustrating forum at times.
I don't see anything he brings that Fred/Mctominay don't already tbh.
He's a huffer and puffer but do we really need to spend 50/60m to get that? not for me.
I'm sure he will improve a lot considering he's only 20 but he isn't ready for us yet IMO.
How often have you watched a full game of his?
Do you believe you’ve watched enough of him to make a fair assessment of him over time?
I’d argue he’s very different to Fred and
McTominay at the moment in terms of positioning and discipline. He’s a very sensible footballer in terms of decision making which in a poorer side is difficult!
He is absolutely not a huffer and puffer which implies he’s just a hard worker. Lazy lazy comments.
I don’t know of any DM in world football who was the finished product at 20. It’s harder to be a great DM because so much of it is mental ability compare to attacking players who can occasionally shine on instinct.
Fred certainly could not do Rice’s job and McTominay needs more coaching to get there too.