People said this about Grealish. Turns out that everyone who was creaming themselves back when we signed him bought into the hype a little too much.
He's a good player but he's never realistically going to be the same level as Kev, David, Gundo, Bernardo, Yaya etc and rightly or wrongly, that's the level our fans have gotten used to. Those are players befitting of a club wanting to be the best in the world.
I can only speak for myself but it's got nothing to do with nationality, it just seems a step down from the peaks of aging players rather than a top up of the standard I expect.