Phil Osophy
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Talent alone doesn't make you a good player for the top sides, and scoring aside there wasn't anything extraordinary there. Good acceleration and technique too, like many others, but carrying plenty of flaws in terms of mentality, decision making, tactically, discipline, null defensive wise, lack of creativity on the ball and some shady issues off the field on the top of it.So your post stating the following:
"Greenwood to Real Madrid? Barca? Such a disrespect for such giant clubs to even suggest it. Talent alone (even in big amounts) doesn't make you a good player for a top top club. He's so far from it is laughable, and he carries some serious flaws in his game. If somehow this happened one day he's lasting like 10 minutes there."
A player who over 49 league games outperformed nearly every other player in his age range in terms of end product, would be a disrespect for a club like Madrid or Barca to buy?
There is a very weird stance from some posters on here that all of sudden Greenwood was not an elite talent for his age under whatever metric you want to use. If he picks up where he left off (which it seems like he is doing) and he is available for a cut price due to united choosing to let him go then pretty much every elite club outside of the UK will be in for him. I honestly can't take serious the arguement that, despite outperforming his age peers in output, that because instead of having loads of assists for his age in his position, he instead has loads of goals for his age in his position, that all of sudden he's not that good of a prospect.
Madrid don't need to take cheap punt on this troubled kid and hope that he gets eventually fixed. They have money and attractiveness to cherry pick players all around the world, and go straight for someone with quality and more variety on his game, who also makes them strong in the collective sense.
In a world of football getting more and more systemic with the best teams being built to attack and defend as a unity, having a free verse playing on his own (and doing it like a crazy donkey at times) ignoring teammates, tactics etc represents a big, big problem. MG hasn't earn the credit for any top team to allow him that privilege and platform like let's say Mbappe at PSG.
If he was smart or (alternatively) well advised, he would sign for Getafe or a similar team where he could be the main star, without any egos/talents "competing" with him. Being allowed freedom on the field and even off it, being carried tactically by the other 10 players while he focuses only on attack and shooting like he's possessed. He'd be allowed to take all the risks and getting good individual numbers.
This is not going to happen at Real, Barca, and not even in this mediocre United team. Any big club going for him and expecting the kid to be "another part of the machine" is completely deluded and set for a disappointment. But I doubt they do as it takes 5 minutes to know what he's about.