I don’t agree. I don’t watch a lot of Leeds but I’ve seen him for England and he’s unrecognisable. There’s clearly a very good player in there.
And while yes he’s been a flop at City I’ve not even seen enough of him to judge whether he’s been bad or not. He’s simply never played. Not like he’s played week in week out and been awful.
Yep, that sounds like good sense. If Kalvin had been given four or five games in succession as a starter, and had been taken off in the second half two or three of those times because he was having a mare, I'd feel more qualified to judge him as useless. Such a thing has never, ever happened, since he arrived.
Now Pep hasn't been picking him, so Pep must be seeing something during the week that
really doesn't impress him. It's the only possible conclusion. That's why I think that public declaration by Pep is odd. You don't apologise to a player for not picking them, surely? It's a hard, hard world, the world of professional football. Many kids whose whole dream has been to play for their boyhood team are discarded at fourteen, sixteen, eighteen, etc. The vast majority, in fact. They are
devastated. Some of them can take years to get over it. Some of them never quite get over it. I've seen this fairly close-up, as it happens, with a friend's daughter.
But anyway, that's Pep's decision, and it concerns only him and the player. For myself, even when he played, he didn't seem
that bad. Perhaps just not good enough for City.
