Some thought he was, as far as I can make out it was purely on the basis of the Liverpool-Atleti Round of 16 European Cup match in March 2020, a game in which he was monumental.Don’t ever remember (even arguably) him being the best DM on the planet!
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Trouble is that this was a one-game-in-twenty performance, the other nineteen being somewhere between proper shit and "meh, worked reasonably hard I suppose". Ask any Atleti fan and they were both amazed and delighted that someone had activated his €50 millions (£45 million back then) release clause. My mate's take was "What the fuck do they think they're getting for all that money?"
There were quite a few who were cooing about him on here before the Arse bowled in, I tried to tell them, but my prophecies fell on deaf ears, not for the first or last time