Doesn’t really bother me. It was always a possibility, which is why I said what I said because I’m an adult who understands that players play well but sometimes they don’t. But it’s become a bit of a thing here that once a player is linked he A. Has to play well in every game or else (see: Zubimendi) and B. He dare not even get a knock or he’s a crock.
Players are scouted and analysed for months if not years before they’re linked to a club, and fans only start paying attention after.
I still think he’s a great player and a good fit in more ways than one, and I’m not so much of a goldfish that the last thing he does convinces me that it’s all he can do. If clubs scouted and bought players like fans we’d be buying Amad, Amrabat, or even worse, Bruno Fernandes, based off of last nights game and probably sell Ødegaard based on how he performed at that same ground a few days earlier.
Bruno G plays way more good games than bad ones in the same league we play in, and I’d still be excited if we bought him.
A good example of this AM thinking was us being linked with Rice, fans starting to watch WH games and many peoples takeaway was “if you’re gonna spend £100m, buy Paqueta, not Rice.”
So I’m gonna fall back and let you guys have this one and keep daydreaming about a player we’re not even legitimately linked with over the one we sort of are
I’m not anti FDJ by the way. I’m just not going to do that typical fan thing of wishlisting a player, and then using that wishlisted player as a stick to beat the player we actually end up with.
