Quote Originally Posted by ollie the optimist View Post
what exactly has he done wrong off the field? not that i really pay attention to footballers gossip but as far as i can make out, the only thing that has hit the press is him having one cig during a night out. now i could be wrong here but he hasn't been racist, hasn't been pictured smashed out of his face vomitting everywhere at 4am and nor has he slept with thousands of women who are not his girlfriend. he's gone out a few times, (haven't we all) but generally not done anything to bring the club into disgrace.


while its fine to doubt his ability in becoming the next messi, its clear he is talented, we can disagree on how good he is and thats fine, we both have valid reasons but you keep bringing up his behaviour off the field and i just don't get why. its not bad at all
Obviously there's the ciggie, but there's also the comments about English players and the national team and all the Twitter stuff he posts which I have to say are cringeworthy at times.

Anway more to the point, he seems to have built up a massive reputation without really having had much to do for it, he's been injured more often than not in recent times. Once he proves himself on the field then people can rave about him, but the odd moment here and there really isn't enough, thus far in his career he's been guilty of overrunning the ball.