i think the worrying from some of us is normal, but I also think we should look at the situation in a logical manner. The lad has not scored a ton for us, but every time he's been on the pitch he put himself in a position to do so and looked dangerous. This is happening in the middle of our worst start to a season in recent memory. The service he's received has been subpar, the players playing around him have been subpar. He came on against Leipzig and banged 4 in, came in against City in the Community Shield and put another one in, and he also scored in the opener against Fulham. All those games or moments in games have been periods of time where the team was actually turned on and playing our football. On top of that I think he hit a couple of crossbars and narrowly missed a couple of others. Had he scored a couple more so far and people would be ecstatic.
He does miss, and his finishing has not been the best so far, but I wouldn't worry when our manager has a track records of taking forwards and bringing them into the next level: Lewandowski, Aubameyang, Barrios, Salah, Firmino, Jota, etc. Jürgen will make him score tons, but everything takes time. Some people are getting rattled because they bought into the stupid Haaland v Nunez comparisons on social media when it was clear that those were two players you cant compare. One is a damn near finished product with talent we haven't seen in a very long time while the other is a promising forward with promising physical and mental attributes, but still is not nearly what Haaland is. The only similar thing between those two is the ''pricetag'' people keep throwing around when in fact we know that City had to pay about triple the amount they ''officially'' paid.
All of that and I'm not even talking about the time it takes for some players to adapt to a new league, system, environment , etc. Just wait and see what happens. There's no sense in coming here panicking and jumping to conclusions after, what, 5 games? All of that in the middle of a season start that has us cursing every player in the team except the goalkeeper.
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