That's fair then, I didn't remember he had a release clause. He's still nowhere near a £70-80m player for me, though. More like a £40-50m player. A well-rounded versatile player, with a seemingly excellent mental profile and work-rate, who does most things to a good enough level that they can play for a top team, but I'd say he clearly doesn't have anything in his locker would distinguish him from that range and put him alongside the £70m+ level of talents.
So now we went from the initial High level on everything to Good enough level.
Macca also is the flavour of the day (not even month) because of his form, with apparently not good enough carreer on his shoulder...
yet Kobbie it's already a proven player.
We went from ignoring lots of traits where he is elite:
Passing, Ball retention, Intelligence (on everything) and more recently even defensive tasks, that everyone mentioned...to ignore those and repeat post after post "in what he is great".
And you find
"insulting" that someone might preffer him over many of the players you've mentioned, while the lad it's a Liverpool main player, World Cup and Copa America winner being vital in all of those teams since years,
yet he isn't Elite nor proven enough.
With Macca It is rare to have someone who is so skill and composed on the ball, making almost always the right decision on every aspect (defensivly, offensivly, controlling tempo, etc), while at the same time being so agressive, so strong mentally without being chaotic, that in a nutshell?
it's Elite level and quite rare.
I tell you sthg, if you've just said, well he ain't muy Cup of tea, it's alright, more than all right; but when you treat others preffering him above some of your choices "as insulting" and you are the only one "seeing it", come on...it's not the first time you act in such way.
PD: as aside note, nope, Mac Allister winning or playing in great form in big matches, like in a WC Final, against Madrid, against Manchester (even in Brighton), City or you named it...it's not as simply as "ok he is way better than his rivals in a similar role", YET him even like in this last match, that was left quite alone with many mates not being in their best self, still making Liverpool not loosing their shape, being intelligent enough to hold them, or like against Madrid making very clear which of the two teams had more brains, it's quite a trademark of his game and MORE than that a tendency: the man tends to be great against the biggest rivals or ocassions, that's also quite Elite.
And BTW It's not the goals, nor the assists, those can be consequences of his perfomance. The best thing with him it's that he plays like if he is watching from the stands, almost always what the game demands at a certain point, succeeding or not (he mostly does it) and it's very very noticeable. Not few times he does that, in great style too, he has his great quote of flair even stealing balls.
That game in particular that was mentioned against Madrid, if sthg was showed, it's how Madrid lacked the composure he gave to Liverpool and he is not precisly surrounded by Messi, Modric, there, on contrair he has players that are more incline to rock and roll than anything, that makes him even better in what he does, to impose in such way when he is at his best.
PD2: Pun intended, the in your words justified 70 million + (at this point in his carreer, or better said two years ago) forward talent from United, played in his pocket last match too and he is quite a much bigger and powerful fella than him, yet Macca it's quite smart and even strong to deal with him.
Anyway, sorry Rojo for the long post and everyone for the derrail
