so basically no youngster has a chance then ?. there are barely any champions league level 18 year olds. if thats the case we should never have bought sterling or stones as they aren't world class yet.
thank you for respecting an opinion different than your own.
I am often wrong. Eric Dier for e.g.. An England International midfielder , first choice. Never seen him pass forward. Yet successive managers live him.
M Rashford . A straight line footballer.
No awareness. No first touch. Yet just voted best young footballer in Europe
2 players I don't date, but must be very good.
I hope you are correct with Todin.
From what I've seen of Tosin he is very similar to Stones. Cool, calm, collected. And occasionally drops a bollock!
It's not about whether people have an opinion on Tosin 'making it' it's the idea that someone such as yourself, or anyone, can look at him now & say 'nah he probably won't' .
The point is, it's far too early to have that opinion. He has to improve, yes. I could just say 'nah Diaz won't make it, he wastes too many opportunities'. If he doesn't improve, i'd be right. But how on earth can i assume he won't improve ? And why would i ?
If Tosin was an alcoholic, or dead slow, or thick, shit in the air, or ponced out of challenges, etc, then someone can pick up on that & see a potential future probem. But you can't pick out a kid who plays mostly reserve team football, who has pretty much every footballing attribute going for a cb, & decide he can't improve on a few faults, in the 3 years it will take for him to be the same age as John Stones, who still has loads of faults. if John Stones doesn't improve, he won't 'make it' at City. We are assuming he will.
You can't, Pep Guardiola can't, nobody can, assume Tosin can't solve any weaknesses in his game at barely19.
None of us know. We will only find out, as time moves on. All we know right now, is he has a bucketload of ability. What he, & we make of it, we have to wait & see.
I can agree with your excellent summary of his attributes.
The main reason I feel he will struggle is his bio mechanical efficiency, or cadence. This would need to improve drastically to succeed at the highest level. At present his stride length compensates mostly for this deficiency.
With the support of athletic coaches it can be improved to some extent.
I now realise you are the guardian of the eds forum and will not post anything you may construe as critical in the future.
I have been shot down for my opinion.
I do not think he will have a long term future at City.
There are plenty others who I believe will make it.
We should be doing everything we can to tie him to a new contract and getting him first team minutes.
I genuinely think that he has all of the attributes to become a top CB. He reminds me a bit of Ledley King when he was younger.
He's still got some filling out to do as he's extremely scrawny. However, I'd argue that he is as good as any 18 year old CB in England and there aren't many greats that would've been much further ahead at his age.