The context here is a player that used to play for Manchester United and looking very much out of his depth, now playing for Nottingham Forest and looking like he's playing at a more comfortable level.
It's not like he's gone to Forest and suddenly looks like a player good enough for a team with United's ambitions. He's simply looked a bit more useful for them than he did for United, and that's because the pressure and expectations are that much lower at Forest than they are at United.
As I joked earlier, the logic that players being "unique" and "battling different things", or as our resident Forest supporter mentioned, having to meet certain club ambitions, can be applied to every player, at every club in the pyramid, and by extension, mean that, by and large, there is no difference in the pressure faced by Odegaard as he tried to lead Arsenal to their first title in yonks last season, than there is for Jaime Walker, Ilkeston Town's current leading scorer in the Northern Premier League, to keep banging in goals on a regular basis.
It's clearly utter bollocks that the pressure isn't greater the closer to the top of the game you get. It's the ability to deal with that pressure that is very often the difference between players. It's the difference between, your Ashley Youngs and your Wilfried Zahas.
