FriedClams
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It's coming from people having watched him play football.
Even when he was a United player, it was something regularly noted about him:
And so on.
And the context for us is our manager commenting on our struggles with physicality pretty much every week, the club reportedly looking to specifically raise the athletic levels of the team, and both the fullbacks we've signed and been most strongly linked with (Leon and Dorgu) not-coincidentally being much better athletes.
Alvaro has always had quality, but he just isn't the profile of player we're looking for to improve a team everyone can see is physically lightweight.
To be he doesn’t look slow. Obviously raphinha got the better of him at the end, but he did catch up with him. He may have just got faster over time