What a smug post.. This isn't a dick measuring competition bro.. If you want it to be one then I guess might as well play along :
1. Nice argument and totally expected TBF. It seems the United outsiders and ABUs are failing to differentiate between United's apparent "decline" last season and the tactics of a backward coach that inhibited the attacking prowess of his squad.
2. Again why does this matter in any way or form ? Some players make early debuts. Does it mean they're going to be better than those who're 6 months late ? Scholes was a first team player at 19 like Januzaj. Iniesta wasn't a full first team regular until 20. Does it mean midfielders who started playing regular top level football at 17 or 18 were better than them ?
3. And Januzaj is just a purely a finisher I gather ? He doesn't build up play and is never involved in the lead-up to goals.. Nice one indeed.
4. Januzaj chose not to play international football until he got the call up to Belgium's senior team so there is absolutely no comparison here. Also if you want to compare Januzaj's international success in the future to player XYZ then we have to consider that it's only Belgium... And a coach like Wilmots under whom one of the Top 3 young attackers in the game Hazard looked a shadow of himself and failed to register a single goal..
5. Again players have different progression rates and potential cannot be judged solely by their performances or clinical exploits in junior age groups. Januzaj is still quite raw and physically weak so others might be more efficient in their style of play. A lot of times last season he showed traits of being a misguided virtuoso, trying to do things by himself. With time these flaws will be ironed out and from purely a technical point of view you can't find even one fault in his game. We are talking about pure talent, not how other players did better in their clubs. Yes Meyer is a very good player and barely 6 months older than Januzaj but is that conclusive evidence ?
6. A bit of a distorted comparison but you look at Podolski and Ronaldo when they were Januzaj's age. One had scored 40 goals for Cologne by the time he was 20, the other only 15 and not even considered among the best players in the league.. One was the best young player in the World Cup. The other was sent off and ridiculed to no end. Which one had a better career ? A two time Ballon D'Or winner and 4 time runner up (who was a one trick pony, "overrated" by United fans and certain quarters of the English media, would never be as good as Figo, played for a team that got dominated by Chelsea during Mourinho's first tenure) or the one who was better and more efficient at a young age ?
Again we're talking about projections, not only how good they are right now but how they'll turn out to be in the future based on their skillset and ability to grow further. If you want to disagree by all means do so. But with the same measure there are loads of people who're of the opinion that he'll turn out to be a special player. You want to claim Meyer is a great talent, fine we might even agree with the assessment. But don't make ridiculous arguments that Januzaj has been overrated by United fans and English media and Gazetta or how he's only played for a team that finish 7th when he was the best U-20 player in the league last season alongwith Sterling and Shaw (another overrated United player)..
