And when exactly Seville has been a barometer for anything exactly? And hell even Winks has 10 caps for England, so what ?
Who are you trying to convince that Lenglet is somekind of great player, when he never was top level, neither in Seville where he was promising, and not a single season in Barca. And Barca are **** in the market in the last 10 years or so. On top of that, in the last few years, playing for Barca doesn't mean much, looking at how **** they are.
Our guy Sanchez is a regular starter for Colombia, why didn't Conte make him looks like Nesta in his prime ? If it was that easy, no one would have trying to buy top class players, they would just let their manager do the so call "magic".
I can go on and on and on with our backs, with Lo Celso(39 caps for Argentina lol), Ndombele, Tanganga and so on and so on.
As far as defense and our midfielder, if Conte was so happy with them, we wouldn't change 90% of this positions.
While some improve, obviously Conte is world class, we still make kinda a lot of individual mistake, and the passing in some games where the opponent is tight and was pressing, was just straight up s***!
One more thing i wanna mention is. You can help and push a player to a certain degree/level, and that push most of the time not going to last long enough.
The moment his momentum drop, and he is down on his usual level, and maybe even under that, and then the problem starts.
Stats again are showing some stuffs, but are hiding the most important things. They are not barometer, and shouldn't be.
Bastoni and Lenglet are not on the same level.
I got no problem with us getting Lenglet, cause we obviously can't get our main targets, or don't want to overpay(which is 100% right), or for whatever reason, but yeah he is a risk.
Premier League is a different beats, he will have to fit in your formation, totally different style, and way stronger and competent league. With current City, and even Liverpool, 1-2 mistakes and the chase is over.
Lenglet have good passing, no doubt about it, but he is super prone to mistake, his defense is just plain stupid, and he often is out of position, and he ain't a fast defender.
His step up was Barca, and he failed to show that he belongs at that level.
Still saying all that i will judge him fully with our shirts. I will hope to have a decent season with us, and hopeful help us reach our goals. So far my opinion is not high for him, but again when he become our player, my judgment on him will be only with his play for our team.
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