05-03-2019, 12:37 PM
Keiran Dowel played well last night, and has been playing well for Sheff Utd since he went there. He has undoubted quality but faded badly when he was with us. Wilson at the Sheep Dip was tearing up the league but now has faded, as have a few other of their young players.
It's what happens to young talent in the championship after Christmas. The rigours of the demading & relentless league, on top of them learning how to be senior pros, and then having to deal with poor weather, injuries, pressures to get results etc gets too much and they burn out and fade.
Carvalho is a similar age to those others I've mentioned and will be having similar issues. And, on top of all that, he's also living in a foreign country and dealing with that too. I've not writing him off yet, just maybe this season, or this part of the season.
He'll probably be on fire again in August, after a rest, some time at home and an O'Neil pre-season under his belt.
It's what happens to young talent in the championship after Christmas. The rigours of the demading & relentless league, on top of them learning how to be senior pros, and then having to deal with poor weather, injuries, pressures to get results etc gets too much and they burn out and fade.
Carvalho is a similar age to those others I've mentioned and will be having similar issues. And, on top of all that, he's also living in a foreign country and dealing with that too. I've not writing him off yet, just maybe this season, or this part of the season.
He'll probably be on fire again in August, after a rest, some time at home and an O'Neil pre-season under his belt.