Adnan Januzaj

BluessinceHydeRoad said:
It is difficult when the media get a whiff of a half decent young player at OT because the language never starts on anything like a realistic level: this lad was "the new George Best" and a genius after he'd played about 20 minutes and the campaign was on to get him to qualify to play for England. I think he is a very promising youngster, but he does have the weaknesses of most youngsters. He isn't always aware of what is going on around him, especially when United don't have the ball and he does try to do too much himself and he overcomplicates. I agree with Bluemoonz that our young Marcos looked much more mature and did the mundane parts of the game much better. In the third minute Marcos didn't try and cut in, beat two men, close of his own space and thump the ball into the side netting, he put in a no frills, but inch perfect cross so that the beast simply had to nut it into the net. Also last night Januzaj simply couldn't handle the pressure: his "routine" preparing for his penalty did not look like a lad who had no nerves as the TV assured us, but rather anything he could think of to avoid actually taking the penalty. No doubt some of that is the ridiculous way the rags look to a green 18 year old to fish them out of every hole but as Thaksinssoldier argues - it will ruin him. The lad would do far better at City, where as Marcos said, the world class players make it very easy to play with them. How many of us can remember how our youths of 1986 were ruined by premature exposure to relegation battles?
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Spot on. Januzaj is trying to carry a team (he aint that good FWIW). Marcos Lopes is complementing a team.
 
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He's a very decent young prospect who is playing too much football. This is completely contrary to the way Wee Davey handled youth players in the past. He nurtured Rooney and only played him irregularly. Always protecting him and easing him through. Same with Ross Barkley and Shamus Coleman and others who came through the Everton system.

I think either (i) Januzaj has insisted that by signing a new contract he gets game-time or (ii) Gollum is so desperate to appease the fans with a 'babe' that he is playing him to keep take the flack off himself and to take attention away from the rest of the sh*tness or (iii) Gollum is just desperate and needs somebody with 2 legs and a pulse who can bale him out.

As others have said, he will become jaded by getting beaten too often and getting knocked out of cups and missing penalties and being put in pressure situations too often and too soon. He's already losing that look of invincibility the quality 18 year olds start off with and often carry on through their careers.

It's good news for us but not for him. On his new inflated contract and possibly guaranteed appearances he probably won't care but the damage will be long-term and of which he is currently probably oblivious.

He's starting to look like one of our 1986 kids now, Whitey or Simpson when they start to take easier options just to avoid another walloping. They gradually lose their ambition and the will to win. They start to 'accept' a defeat given it's happening all the time and will continue to happen.

He'll end up out on loan to Kilmarnock before his contract is up and everyone will be saying Januzaj who ?
 
Would like to see him compared to other young players, either now or historically.

Wonder how he's doing vs. the likes of Gnarby now. Or vs. Rooney or Walcott when they started. I saw this posted by a Liverpool fan on redcafe:

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