That is what you believe. However Pundits and all those who rated him at the time are certain the opposite was true and I personally don't think they were wrong. Anderson was scary good at Porto that everyone major wanted to sign him. is potential was that high. He just sadly hasn't lived up to it.
Totally and completely wrong. There was nothing wrong with any of his technique Nor his passing as a youngster. I insist you are confusing the current stop start Anderson with the previous one.
Stew.
If he's one of the first players Van Gaal will be working with after the World Cup (while most of the squad is still on holiday perhaps?), he might impress him. But I very much doubt it, although the exiting thing about Van Gaal is that everything's possible. If his contract runs out in 2015 the club might want to get any money they can get and it saves us salary. Perhaps Porto will take him back.
To be fair chief, you kept rating Ando till it was perfectly evident that he was shit. You always had a soft spot for the kid.
Of course I did because of his potential which for me was never in doubt. It's his fulfilling it that was and sadly he proved my hope that he could fulfill it wrong.
It just show the amount of faith they have had in his potential.
By "just about everyone in this thread" you actually mean "a handful of posters", don't you? The former couldn't be further from the truth.
Everyone I can remember posting about the loan at the time it was confirmed.
Yeah, I largely agree. I don't think his talent was all hype. He did have something at an early stage - something which made our purchase of him at that price less than crazy. But he obviously hasn't lived up to it. The latter fact may easily distort people's overall perception of him, though. He wasn't a shite/overhyped player we never should've gone for - that's revisionism in my book. He was a genuine talent -at the time rated very highly - whom we took a legitimate punt at, even at that price.
Well your memory is highly selective. At most, three or four people said he might do ok in Italy.
That sort of stuff...
Can we burn the bathroom down and start again?
I 100% agree
A lot of posts making fun of his size in his picture and saying he was bad for us, but those who mentioned Fiorentina and Serie A suggested he'd be a success there.
No he doesn't and most definitely shouldn't. The club would be insane to give him another shot.
No clean slates, only clean plates in Anderson's case.
Aye. Hargo's knees were so bad they also injured Anderson.
He might turn Anderson into a left back, like he did with Alaba, and fulfill Scholesy's prophecy.
That's what I did in PES tbh
Agreed. I would find it staggering if he ever pulled the shirt on again. Get rid of him on a free if thats what it takes.
I would have liked to have seen what LvG might have got out of Fabio.
