With you mindset, one could say the same about you dressing your opinion as fact over Henderson, right?
Every player have a level of technical ability, some are not as highly proficient as others(yes, even at the highest level), but what they lack in the technical department, they gain in others.
Whether you think Hendo is on the same or higher level as the likes of Wijnaldum, Ketia or Fabinho is your own opinion, but from what I have seen, I would disagree. I would put Hendo in the industrial bracket where the emphasis is more focused on his strengths, something similar to Kante.
Nope, not at all.
I base my opinion of Henderson on solid evidence.
You've been presented with these stats time and time again, but you either ignore them, or try to muddy the waters, a classic example being "He never passes forwards", and when shown that he does, it becomes "yes, but it's the type of forward passes"
It's disingenuous, to say the least.
What you don't seem to understand, is that at the top level, there is very little between any of these players in terms of ability, technical or otherwise.
What they do, is sacrifice expression in favour of doing the job they've been told to do.
As I said, it appears to be just another way of attacking the player.
Lucas for example is a wonderfully technical player, but he put that aside to do the job he was asked to do.
I wasn't too sure when we signed Fabinho, and even asked around on forums, but I decided to go back and re-watch full matches of Monaco to see what type of player he was, and over a good dozen matches, I understood what type of player he was, and felt he was something we have missed for so many season, so yeah, I got excited, but I got excited based on the matches I saw in competitive matches(as I mentioned many times) and friendlies (for us).
Also, have you considered that maybe some actually sit down, watch the game and then form an opinion instead of forming an opinion via social media comments?
nah, you kept banging on about how good he looked in pre-season, and only later started saying you'd watched matches in the French league, so I'm not buying that for a second.
Besides which, looking good in the French league is no guarantee that he'll be successful in the prem, and pre-season matches are no way to judge a player.
I remember Markovich looking good in pre-season.
I see strengths and weaknesses of every player (yes, even Fabinho) as you can see throughout my posts, so how is that hiding behind anything?
You've done it constantly in this discussion, even trying that tired old nonsense about "being allowed to have an opinion".
Here's the thing, everyone can have an opinion, but that doesn't mean other people have to value it, and when you constantly slate a player that Klopp clearly values, instead of trying to understand why Klopp values him, you retreat behind "well, that's my opinion" as if your opinion equals that of our manager.
It doesn't.