Oh yea great point, got injured at the wrong time there.
I was so excited about that Feyenoord loan, had all the makings of a real breakout move and he goes and pings his hamstring the morning of the medical. Proper sliding doors moment.
Because he played well against AC Milan and Wolves? Not that hard to decipher. He might have had some off games initially but if he kept playing (as he has at Sunderland) he would have adapted fairly quickly.
Yep, agreed. He's always been great with the ball at his feet and even his decision making (often a young player's downfall) has looked good. As you say, the issue has been with his stature and with imposing himself on games throughout as opposed to drifting in and out. I would personally give him a loan to a suitable PL side next season and see where that leaves us. We're well stacked in his position at the mo and I worry that he wouldn't get the game time he deserves if he came back now.
Sorry pal, but I'd take what three managers and their coaches working with him day in, day out say over your take on this. As the poster above notes, his ability with ball at feet wasn't in doubt but he wasn't ready to play PL football at that stage.
You say this like it's a nailed on fact, which is far from the truth. Again, as evidenced by the people that worked the closest with him making the decision to loan him out. As for the Milan and Wolves point, does this mean you think that any player that has a couple of good games against high level opposition is ready to be a first team starter?
Obviously not any player who has two good games would go on and adapt but for an 18 year old with Amad's talent, I would have been willing to take that chance. Especially when you consider that at the time we had nothing down the right and team was hardly pulling up trees. I also wasn't saying he should be a starter but he easily could have been a regular option off the bench like Garnacho is now.
Some work out really well, though. Conor Gallagher to Palace, for example. If we choose the right club, it's a smart move.
Amad's record in the Championship is on course to better the likes of Zaha, Mount, Grealish. Maddison got 21 g/a before moving to Leicester and his is currently on a better mins per g/a if I did my maths correctly. (There's more to football that stats but its all I can go on in the championship).
I take your point, but don't you think he's benefited more from the Sunderland move than he would have coming off the bench every now and then? As Pogue said, even now he's older and more physically developed than he was when he arrived, so while he may be ready now, he wasn't initially.
Oh certainly the Sunderland loan was a good thing for his development for sure.
