Can you pull up a post of mine where I critiqued the signing after we’d made it? Can you find an example of me saying it was a poor signing and he wouldn’t be any good for us? They’re conclusions that you’ve just come to in your head by connecting an imaginary set of dots, all because I had reservations about whether it was a signing we were ever going to entertain in the first place. Yes, of course, I got that bit massively wrong. Our interest was obviously real and not click bait journalist crap which I initially thought it was.
If someone offered me the chance to sign him permanently for £50m right now, I’d still think that we shouldn’t do that. That’s not because he’s utter crap lad and not good enough for this club NSNO, it’s for a much wider variety of reasons including the price, wages, his age. It’s just not as straightforward as “you don’t think we should sign him so you think he’s crap lad”.
And yes he has had a bigger impact in his first two games than I ever thought he would have. I thought it would take him much longer to get his fitness levels up to speed than it has done. Fair play to him he’s proven me wrong on that one. I’ll repeat once again though. It’s been 2 games.