Haha! I think they just believe the hype that Boateng got when at Hamburg. It'll be like our media with our young English talent. They aren't just young English talent; they're the next great hope, the white Pele, they're potential world class after playing 18 games for a mid table team... you get my point.
Boateng will probably have got that same kind of hype in Germania. Hamburg will have played on that and then came the World Cup where the Germ's were okay and Boateng was probably looked upon in the same light as their other young stars Müller and Özil. The thing is, he wasn't that good, really. Coming to City, within a few months it was blatently obvious that Jérôme lacked many fundamental skills of a defender, a football even. The world was duped by this daft media know-nothing journos who hype up their own too much!