So Coutinho is worth 142 million pounds? Pogba is worth 80? Is Chilwell being overrated because he’s English? Or because he’s being overrated?
When we sold him Coutinho probably was on that market.
But other than that, yes Foreign players can be overrated too, but that doesn't mean that English players don't generally get overrated due to the fact that they are English. There is a much higher proportion of overrated English players from the English media, than there is overrated foreign players. It's understandable, all media's would do it for their local talent, but it does mean than generally there isn't huge value in English players for English clubs
Even with quality english players around, a lot of definitely average players get branded as quality due to them being English. Players like Wan Bissaka, Maguire, Chillwell, Maddison, Barkley, Rice, Mount, Winks, Calvert Lewin, Grealish, even at some point real shite like Mings.
This also generally leads to inflated prices, because there are some clubs who actually buy into the media hype and pay over the odds for these players.
Thats not to say those players are even bad, players like Maddison and Grealish are good, but nowhere near as good as the media say. They are not £80 million players, which the media and their clubs would tout them