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[Sausage Roll]

Maybe he's just not as good as we think?

Yeah, right. 

I was being serious and playing devil's advocate. We know he's been excellent for us and we love him, but maybe he's just not that top international class defender we have him down to be. He has obvious talent but maybe we look at him with rose coloured specs?

It's a fair observation. We've only seen him in the context of the Premier League where so far he's looked excellent. It'll be interesting to see how - if we do qualify for the CL and he's still here - he does against top-class club competition. And the same for all our players of course.