Naby Keita

[red g]

I still have no idea where this "exceptionally talented" comes from. I've never, ever seen it. I've seen a couple of times when he was good for us, a few when he was ok, and quite a few when he was poor albeit when the team was struggling generally. I've never understood the narrative that he was exceptional or world class, but lots of people have said it.

I remember wathcing a few of thsese and was sure he was the missing link,. Driven, Tenacity and vison....All left in Germany.

I think he made Austrian, then German, then Uefa team of year before we signed him
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[Angryred]

I still have no idea where this "exceptionally talented" comes from. I've never, ever seen it. I've seen a couple of times when he was good for us, a few when he was ok, and quite a few when he was poor albeit when the team was struggling generally. I've never understood the narrative that he was exceptional or world class, but lots of people have said it.

I can understand where you are coming from as Nabi when he fancied it, was quite brilliant but in spurts & came with quite a reputation from Germany hence the "world class" billing.

[Venton]

Even that video says to me that at his very best he's a decent player. World class I just don't buy.

[Mark79]

I don’t ever remember anyone claiming Keita was word class.

Maybe some shouts during his Leipzig days about potential to be, but that’s it.

[badpiggy]

My recollection was that Naby came to us with the same kind of buzz as Szoboslai - you may mot have heard of this guy but he's going to wow you. Difference is Szoboslai did very well at first.

[Venton]

I don’t ever remember anyone claiming Keita was word class.

Maybe some shouts during his Leipzig days about potential to be, but that’s it.

Go back over this thread,it's there

[Mark79]

Go back over this thread,it's there

There’s 94 pages!

I searched it. Nothing is showing up.

[Venton]

Wow. I just did the same search and apart from us having a little chit chat about it posts just after he left said things like "we thought we were getting a world class player". It goes right back from there.

My mum's done an internet course, I can pop over the details if you fancy a go?

[red g]

'The Black Souness'

[Venton]

'The Black Souness'

I know! Wrong on so many levels!

Thing is we've all been sold a pup on players in the past, but we don't have to continue the delusion. For me I genuinely believed that Baros would be the Ostravan Maradona. Owned.

[Mark79]

Wow. I just did the same search and apart from us having a little chit chat about it posts just after he left said things like "we thought we were getting a world class player". It goes right back from there.

My mum's done an internet course, I can pop over the details if you fancy a go?

Someone saying they thought we were getting a world class player isn’t the same as as there being a commonly held consensus that he actually was world class though. It’s actually saying the opposite.

Why don’t you quote some of these posts that actively claimed him to be world class?

Your mum can help you.

[Venton]

Someone saying they thought we were getting a world class player isn’t the same as as there being a commonly held consensus that he actually was world class though. It’s actually saying the opposite.

Why don’t you quote some of these posts that actively claimed him to be world class?

Your mum can help you.

I don't want to have a row with you but you keep talking cock. "Commonly held consensus" is your phrase, I said lots of people said it.

You said you searched through the 94 pages and there's nothing - just go to the thread and search for the word "world" and it's peppered with it. I don't understand what your problem is.

[Norbs]

He was definitely touted as being potentially the best midfielder in the world. He ended up being ****

[Mark79]

I don't want to have a row with you but you keep talking cock. "Commonly held consensus" is your phrase, I said lots of people said it.

You said you searched through the 94 pages and there's nothing - just go to the thread and search for the word "world" and it's peppered with it. I don't understand what your problem is.

I know what you said. Wtf do you think consensus means?

I didn’t read through the 94 pages! I used the search for ‘world class’.

The only instance of anyone using that term in relation to Keita is basing it on the Leipzig hype before he joined us. Hardly a ‘narrative said by lots of people’ as you put it.

Now, if you don’t want to have a row, then accept you got it wrong and stop taking ****.

[Venton]

I know what you said. Wtf do you think consensus means?

I didn’t read through the 94 pages! I used the search for ‘world class’.

The only instance of anyone using that term in relation to Keita is basing it on the Leipzig hype before he joined us. Hardly a ‘narrative said by lots of people’ as you put it.

Now, if you don’t want to have a row, then accept you got it wrong and stop taking ****.

Search for "world" in this thread. Here's 21st May 2023 as he was leaving, the first of VERY many:

The main issue is we thought we were getting a world class player who we’d be able to sell on eventually for maybe double what we paid, and that not happening is a direct result of his time here.

Genuinely, what the **** are you talking about? It's here on the site in black and white.