I mean, if we’re doing condescending then you’ve absolutely got the right guy here.
I’ll try to provide an even shorter summary for you. This is a Rasmus Hojlund performance thread. Those performances have been largely underwhelming, hence the performance reports being largely underwhelming (see Kobbie Mainoo thread for comparison of when a player is performing well).
Hojlund should be judged off of the performances he produces, otherwise close this and reopen it once he has a ‘well drilled, mentally astute team’, maybe in two years, maybe never. He has had good games this season (see reactions in Rasmus Hojlund thread following good games), and had poor games (see reaction following poor games), and some in between where he has shown a few good things. As you said, those are available to read in this thread.
For someone telling me to go and read what has been written, heaven knows where your ‘agents and families’ retort has come from. Also, for someone who wants to talk about cherry-picking and ‘only looking at goals and assists’, that is also nonsense, as I’ve literally said across many threads on RH that he is not producing ANYTHING. I also said that IF, all that were missing was goals and assists, I’d be far less concerned. Do you watch either of his performances against Liverpool in the last month, or Chelsea, or Bournemouth and think to yourself ‘he did everything but score?’. He didn’t do anything at all, including score. He didn’t even manage to miss or nearly score. He didn’t do anything, barely touched the ball. I’ve seen many vitriolic posts directed at Martial for being ‘useless’ after games where he simply barely touched the ball.
I don’t need educating on what it means to be a young and developing player. Garnacho isn’t where we want him to be. Last season, he showed plenty of moments, without being the 20 goal forward we hope him to be at 23. Everyone said he was playing well. I watched Ronaldo here at 18. He was a million miles from the developed Ronaldo he became. He got 5 goals. his decisions were poor. BUT, he was widely praised for his performances. I could go on and on. Martial came to a similarly dysfunctional team at 19 and was several levels above Hojlund. I’m calling Hojlund’s performances this season for what they are, not what I hope them to be, not adjusted for mitigation, simply what they are. He was great in the CL. But he’s had a poor league campaign, despite a purple patch. During that purple patch, posts were positive, now he’s gone back to being poor, guess what has happened? None of this means that he can’t become a top striker in two years. That’s up to him. If he becomes one, then I imagine everyone will say ‘he’s a top class striker’. Right now, he isn’t m, and I would say that he’s not playing at a level of a player even good enough to be starting for us. My hope if that a senior striker comes in this summer and he can then do his apprenticeship and develop into a top striker. But right now, he’s a long way from one.
. Cracking line.