Blue Smarties
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Issue is Ake, despite his injuries, played almost a 1,000 minutes. Phillips, whilst available for more games, played just 500.Despite having countless examples Bluemooners still fall for the trap that a player will never make it here. And don’t give me that point about “other players who eventually found their feet showed signs that they would come good unlike Kalvin.” I recall it was said about Nathan Ake that he wasn’t our level and he’d never come good.
We make this judgment call every time and we get it wrong every time. By now I thought we’d be humble to see how things pan out in the second season at the very least but no, we want to make the definitive judgement now.
Ake also showed signs of what he could offer, whereas there’s been no suggestion Phillips even understands what he’s asked to do. Likely resulting in him hardly getting on the pitch.