But I also suspect that with Micah he simply did not have the football brain, while Dele's attitude is his failure. His upper body is not really disproportional to his legs - and his legs may not be muscularly thick but are still strong enough to support that upper body.Watching a MOTD thingy, was struck by Micah Richards reflecting, he said that when he was 19 he was playing for Man City and Patrick Viera said to him after a game "you have all the tools to be the next Lillian Thuram". He said, then he saw him 5years later and he said "what happened to you?"...
Thing is, still now I suspect he has no real focus on the fact he put on 30kg odd of muscle he needn't have carried around for several seasons and destroyed his athletic qualities.
The same Dele, to some degree, way too much upper body increase for those chicken legs to not get clogged up in double quick time...
Alfie beware!
Several young talented footballers have taken the world by storm only to be found out sooner or later.