With the start of the new football season, there will be the same old grumbles about a footballer’s ability – how Lukaku has a poor first touch, how Sterling is a waste of space in the Premier League and how Paul Pogba takes 60 shots instead of passing the ball. But what if we put aside all these flaws and just look at these footballers from a perspective of a human? We would appreciate their abilities just that little bit more, after all we’re all humans and humans most definitely have flaws.
Raheem Sterling was criticized by the whole of England after he failed to score a single goal at the World Cup. But his runs off the ball were vital to England reaching the World Cup semi-finals, it allowed Harry Kane the space to score goals.
Yes, Sterling had chances to score and probably should’ve scored at least one goal but all players miss shots. Harry Kane had an absolute gem of a chance to put Croatia away in the semi-finals.
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Raheem Sterling is already such a great player and under the tutelage of Pep Guardiola, he scored 20 Premier League goals. If he fulfills his potential, he will be a quite frightening player with all the attributes a player needs these days, pace, guile and finishing.
Romelu Lukaku has shown all the critics out there that he as a footballer has room to improve and he can improve. In his first season at Manchester United, his much-ridiculed first touch has improved dramatically and his hold-up play was essential to Manchester United finishing second.
He is showing signs of becoming the complete footballer, particularly as he netted against Chelsea to show he is more than a flat-track bully.
Paul Pogba is a great example of a player that has been elevated to a level in which people expect him to single-handedly take Machester United to the Premier League title like Maradona did for Napoli.
In reality, Pogba is simply a guy that wants to play football with his mates just like everybody out there but because of the hype surrounding him and the transfer fee paid for him, people have sky-high expectations.
Yes, he is extremely well paid and should be producing match-winning moments off his boots but people seem to forget that Pogba is a human, and some of the criticism aimed at him is truly unwarranted.
People simply seem to forget that a footballer is a human that has flaws. The next time before you berate a footballer, just think to yourself, is your criticism warranted at all and extends to comments made from managers and journalists out there? Because we are all people who love the beautiful game that is football.