Scouseinthehouse
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Frustrating best sums up Can. There's just no consistency. When he's on it, he's very good to excellent. When he's not, he's horribly bad. With no in between. And this goes through games. Not just game-to-game. You look at his stats from the Sunderland game and you'd think he had a real good game. High percentage of passes. Same with his tackles won. But that skews the fact his passing was awful most all game and he was bailed out a good few times by quick teammates recovering balls played behind them. He just isn't as quick in thought as the other players. Which has shown even more this year with his new, more advanced attacking role from the middle. When he see's things, it's too late and his passing is invariably too slow. Yet other times he'll look Molby sublime spraying it around and McMananman like surging through. (Although with his bulk It looks more Titi Camara-esq lol.). No consistency. Hopefully that comes the more experience he gets. He's physical rather than relying on his positional nounce and anticipation to win challenges like a Carrick which stands him in good stead for that side of this league and it is worth remembering he's moved from a more traditional DM role more often than not last year (and a host of other positions under Rodgers as a fill in from RB through centre half to out the wing); so he's having to re-adapt to the intricacies of that role alongside Wijnaldum or Lallana further forward.
But Klopp selling him at 22 ..... That's not even worth debating with your friend. He's a developing work in progress and a big part of the first team squad going forward. He has the tools and his versatility is very useful depth to have. Just needs to tie it all together on a consistent basis.
I won't speak as to the best overall summer signing the league as thats too subjective. But Wijnaldum's certainly up there as arguably our best. He's made just as big an impact as Mané and has quietly established himself as one of the most vital cogs in the XI. I've recently been gushing about him the L'pool thread so I won't rehash: #30718
So your friend did at least get 1 out of 4 right!
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