But no one who counts thought he was the next big thing did they? Otherwise one of the big clubs would have swooped for him in the summer.
The worry for him is that it doesn't look like defenders have worked him out, he doesn't seem to get marginalised, it's just that last season everything he hit ended up in the net, this season it ends up in the stands, you'll just have to wait and see which is the truer measure of his talent.
That's not strictly true - he's hit the target a fair bit this season.. he's just not had the rub of the green. Because he's not been scoring he's started to do what Rooney does - drift and/or come to the ball, which means he gets fewer chances and the story rolls on.
But no one who counts thought he was the next big thing did they? Otherwise one of the big clubs would have swooped for him in the summer.
The worry for him is that it doesn't look like defenders have worked him out, he doesn't seem to get marginalised, it's just that last season everything he hit ended up in the net, this season it ends up in the stands, you'll just have to wait and see which is the truer measure of his talent.