I've no interest in getting respect from someone who responded to me out the blue with an arsey, sarcastic comment.
Pereira is also not 'a little ahead' of Trent. That is rather deluded to suggest. And again, just like with our conversation on Dendoncker, you claim that a player will somehow struggle in the Premier League based on nothing really. You aren't an expert on players even though you like to pretend to be no matter how little you have seen of them. When I judge a player I havent seen much of myself, I try read as much as I can from people who have actually seen him. Most of those people suggest he is a great player and that there isn't much between him and Semedo who just went to Barca for 40m and has started very impressively. There is nothing to suggest really that TAA will be the 'FAR' better of the two. If anything, I'd be shocked if Trent ends up as a RB long term because he is so far off it defensively. Or to quote Jurgen, he 'defends like a boy not a man'
Trent to me looks like a midfielder who's using fullback as a way to get in the team like to different ends, Gerrard and Carra did.
It's just the fact that a lot of players struggle to adapt to the Premier League. Especially those at perceived smaller clubs who aren't playing European football. The intensity is a lot higher and there is more games and a colder climate. It all means players bodies needs to adapt to it. The younger you are, the more likely that is to happen, if at all. Some simply don't adapt. Which is why a lot of players will come in at a lower level than ourselves and then the bigger clubs hoover up those who show they can adapt. It's why the likes of Southampton become farm clubs, unfortunately for them.
I have said the same words of caution on Keita. The difference being he plays this system already at both Salzburg and Leipzig. There is still some concern over the fact though he plays once a week in his career and tires late in games due to his style of play.
Agree with TAA btw, he may very well end up as a #6 or #8 for us.
As for opinions of people who have seen players - it's still just an untrained eye looking at a player and making a guess. Fans over exaggerating their own players. It doesn't really mean anything. It just means a lot of people - whose skills as scouts are unquantifiable - believe something to be true. Confirmation bias means that we tend to search out opinions that agree with our own and dismiss those who don't so it becomes hard to put and quantifiable value on unsourced people saying he is good. From a data point of view, it therefore means little to nothing.
When you scout players, you look for weaknesses, not strengths. And how those weaknesses are tested. And draw similarities to others to see how convertible what they are doing in say France is to England. How do full backs - in general - fare when they make that move. And what weaknesses showed up in them when they made that move that prevented them succeeding, and if there were any signs of that bfore the move. Stuff like that.
Players tend to fail because of their weaknesses, not succeed because of their strengths basically.
