Jack Wilshire – Bournemouth
The big ‘I AM’. This diminutive player struts around the pitch like he’s lord of all he surveys yet, he doesn’t actually do anything. He’s skillful enough and a reasonable enough player when he’s actually fit but, he stunk for Arsenal for years and it’s only now at Bournemouth that he’s flourishing. That tells me he’s found his level. He’s overrated and not good enough for the elite.
Aaron Ramsey – Arsenal
Another Jack Wilshire. What does he actually do that merits plaudits? Nothing, that’s what. He floats around the midfield passing a few balls and doing little else of note. It’s incredible he’s lasted so long but then, it’s Arsenal.
Theo Walcott – Arsenal
Do you know what I still hear about Walcott? “The lads got potential!!” POTENTIAL!! He’s twenty eight years old FFS!! When is he going to fulfill it? In time for FIFA 20.. Walcott has pace to burn – and that’s it. He’s a woeful striker and a fairly inept winger and I’m not sure how on earth he is still with Arsenal. They are like a home for the useless.
Jordan Henderson – Liverpool
Look at Aaron Ramsey and Jack Wilshire. Henderson is exactly the same and how on earth people can compare this guy to Steven Gerrard is beyond me. Gerrard could cut both of his legs off and play better than Henderson – seriously!
Raheem Sterling – Man City
Liverpool did one thing right two years ago. They sold this greedy overrated sack of shit to Man City. Had he stayed at Liverpool and learnt his craft under Klopp, things might have turned out very different for him. However, he and his agent got greedy and forced a move to City where Guardiola came in and benched him for the most part. When he did get on the pitch, he was generally crap with his passing, wasteful in possession and missed umpteen open goals. That has continued both with City and England and I don’t see things improving for him anytime soon. He’s not good enough so that makes him a prime transfer candidate for Arsenal..
Renato Sanches – Swansea
Look at that sad picture. Look how glum he looks. If pictures could tell a thousand words, that picture alone would be a Pulitzer prize. He’s been rumbled and he knows it.
It’s probably a little unfair to pick this guy so soon into the season but, the question has been asked and whilst we might only be 4 games in, I think he’s overrated. WELL OVERRATED in fact. I honestly couldn’t understand what all the fuss was about regarding this guy after the Euro Championships last year. Everyone was crowing about this amazing midfield talent from Portugal called Renato Sanches.
Yet, what did he ‘actually’ do? All I saw was a young lad running around like a headless chicken making a nuisance of himself with no end product. This apparent uselessness inexplicably saw him secure a move to Bayern Munich who after one season, then appeared to agree with me in that he was a complete waste of time, and shipped him off on loan to Swansea.
The loan move protects Bayern’s investment just in case he comes good. Looking at his first games for the Swans though, my money is on him bombing and being sold on because he’s one of those players who appears to beguile managers into blindly thinking that they can be the one to tap into the class hidden within. Now who does that remind me of….? Oh I know, Balotelli.
Vincent Janssen – Spurs
Dutch strikers rarely do well in the EPL. For every Ruud van Nistlerooy, there are ten Metaja Kezman’s (former Chelsea striker – by all accounts). Vincent Janssen appears to be from the stable of the latter. For all the hullabaloo surrounding his arrival last year, he scored an astounding six goals in all competitions, which let’s face it, isn’t going to give Harry Kane too many sleepless nights. Has Janssen scored this year? I don’t know and I don’t care because you can’t go from scoring 30 goals a season in the Dutch league to scoring six in the EPL and ever hope to survive. If he doesn’t hit 20 goals this season he’s gone and that’s where my money is.
John Stones – Man City
The Jury is still out on Stones. At Everton, he had one great season before attracting the interest of Man City and moving there for a colossal fee. Last year he was nothing short of abysmal. However, he’s still a young lad who has the ability, so could well improve and his performance against Liverpool on Saturday was encouraging but, he needs to produce those performances consistently and not against 10 men. Overrated at the moment but, time will tell if that remains the case.
Eliaquim Mangala – Man City
Has this guy ever had one good game in a City shirt? I can’t remember it if he has and neither can my City supporting mates. Considering he cost somewhere in the region of £40m, you’d have expected a Rolls Royce of a centre half. Not a chance, Man City would have been better buying a clothes mangle than Mangala. It would have been more useful. They did jettison him to Valencia last season but he’s back at City now. Unloved, unwanted and unable to understand the art of defending even at it’s most basic.
Jesse Lingard – Man United
What is the point of Jesse Lingard? What does he do? What makes a manager like Mourinho offer him a new five year contact? I don’t get it – I honestly don’t and I don’t know many United fans that do. I remember Lingard coming through the ranks with Pogba and Morrison and never thought anything other than, ‘he’s quite good’. I never thought he was great. He was nowhere near the level of Paul Pogba, much less that of the supremely talented Ravel Morrison. He was just a decent young player who you expected would be shipped out to a lesser team. That was his level then and that is his level now. He’s an average squad player – at best. He’s like Danny Welbeck who whilst a toiler and a grafter, doesn’t provide or offer anywhere near enough end product consistently.