If you're a good player you don't need time to settle at a team, even if you come from a different country, there are plenty examples of players who made great first-seasons at their clubs. That's just an excuse.
Plenty of players hit the ground running, plenty are shi...te and stay shi...te and plenty take a season to show their best form. You only have to look at the improvement Sakho made from season 1 to season 2 as a good example of one of our own players getting their act together. First season he went to ground WAY too often and way to early, often selling his position or giving away FKs and bad areas, his heading was also poor. Fast forward to last season, huge improvements in both areas and I'm expecting to see him lift his game another 10% this season providing he stays fit.
In terms of Moreno I have no doubt he has the capability to improve, my worry is that he is quite probably not in the best environment to do so. He plays in a system that asks him to get forward at every opportunity, is often without protection in front of him and he wont get drilled from a defensive perspective in the way he might if he played for a team like Chelsea. Positioning and defensive awareness can be improved in any player but it takes good coaching, analysis and repetition.
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