Quote Originally Posted by cricketsi View Post
It might be ridiculous in your opinion, but your hyperbolic response is clearly that.

Saka started 3 games for England at Euro 2020. His average scores on the BBC player ratings, i.e. mostly not from Arsenal fans, were 7.74, 7.04 and 6.53. Sky Sports gave him 8/10 for the tournament, The Independent gave him 7.5/10, Evening Standard 8/10, Mirror 8/10, etc.

There might be calibration differences - some people might think a rating of 4/10 is a baseline average, others a 6/10, so maybe your own personal quantitative measure of performance may vary.

I think the majority of Arsenal fans would agree he looked as though he was suffering from burn out by the end of last season. It would be foolish not to take that into account, and your observation that he fades as games go on probably reflect the fact he's overplayed - hence the club clearly looking at a RW addition in the transfer market. If he's allowed a decent rest and used appropriately, then hopefully you'll end up seeing him in the same light as most of the rest of us.
As I said, I've watched him play utter shit only to get MOM and an 8/10. There's some mental hype/agenda around him that most seems to have just bought into. It's fuckin weird and, frankly, doesn't do him any favors long term, imo (= fact).

As for him burning out towards the end of the season. I didn't notice that at all. I think people were actually just starting to realize that he is a total hype job at this point and rather than admit they were wrong/bought into the nonsense used fatigue as the excuse.

He was consistently poor for the entire season.