Winston BiscuitURZZZZ The nature of how teams set up is vastly different in the Prem to the Bundesliga
The impression I get from occasionally watching Bundesliga games (perhaps the likes of Stranded could confirm/reject this) is that the games are quite open, hence for the likes of Havertz/Minamino, there's pockets of space to play in and also for Werner, there's more space to play in behind. Compare that to the Prem, where, especially against the top teams, lower sides will form a low block, and will play deep to the extent to which there's very little room to play in, negating the likes of Werner/Havertz
I, for one, am frequently left disappointed watching Sancho play for England, and in the majority of those games, we're up against defensive teams. Yet for Dortmund, he apparently excels. It's arguably the same for Gnabry too, who struggled to get game time for both Arsenal and West Brom - yet is a regular for Bayern
Of course, it works the other way too. Onto a slight tangent but Bale and Hazard were brilliant players for Spurs and Chelsea respectively. Since they both went to the BBVA, neither have lived up to the high expectations. Always think it's generally better to look "in-house" rather than going abroad if possible
Agreed. Still blows my mind that a football club cant see that a player really excelling somewhere else is often doing so because of factors outside of themselves too. A player scoring a boatload of goals in one team may be doing so because the tactics used and other players in that team have worked hard and spent a lot of time focusing on getting the ball to them in very specific situations. You can't buy a player excelling doing a very specific thing and throw him into your team asking him to do a different role and wonder how it all went wrong.
Diego forlan comes to mind
. Sounded like the Leicester defeat was the final straw.
Renowned for playing defensively
