Thing is, at Liverpool he is often a standout player. But how difficult is that when you're standing next to Balotelli, Allen, Henderson, an-old Gerrard and a crocked Sturridge (we'll leave Coutinho out)? Even last season he was our 3rd best player wayyyyy behind a phenomenal SAS pairing. He couldn't hold a candle to them two, so yep you guessed it he was standing out from the rest already mentioned above. Its all relative, smoke and mirrors, etc.
He's not good for 15 league goals a season and barely that number of assists yet. He's far too uncut. You could argue he'd get better stats in a 'better' team. But he's the one fcking up the chances he's at the end of, and he often plays in the pick of best positions at Liverpool more than he would Chelsea or City. For the rumoured £150-180k he wants NOW I'd expect the returning stats NOW. Otherwise we need to feed his 'wold class talent' spiel to the media in hope someone bites at 40-50 million.
He is a world class talent but he's not worth 150k or £50m just yet. Jump the gun and you get disqualified for false starts.
