Caporegime
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What comparison, Hernandez is inept in most parts of his game, this won't change in 10 years. What fair comparison, Ibra 10 years ago was still a player with flair, ability, vision. Top players aren't crap at 21 and brilliant at 25, they are brilliant, then more brilliant, then more brilliant. You don't go from Hernandez to Ibra because of time, you go from Hernandez, to a marginally better Hernandez over time, nothing more or less. He will never ever be a well rounded striker who has no weakness in his game who can change games, dominate teams, he is not that guy.
It's a completely fair comparison, great players start and finish great, just different levels of it. Was Cesc crap till he was 22, or was he ridiculously good at 16, and epically good at 20. There is NOTHING on earth preventing a 20 year old player from being better than a 30 year old one, nothing, they play football on a pitch in the same competitions, with the same rules. Ability is the only thing that prevents Hernandez being better than Ibra, and that will ALWAYS prevent him being better. Falcao is 26, not a decade older than Hernandez, Hazard is younger than Hernandez(well I assume he is, if he's not its close) and he's a vastly superior player. There are loads of players better than Hernandez who are the same age. Aguero 3 years ago was a vastly superior player to Hernandez and Aguero is only marginally better today than he was 3 years ago.
Hernandez could score 54 tap ins next year, it still wouldn't make him a brilliant player, it would make him a successful goal scorer, nothing more or less.
There are players who are significantly, massively better when they are older but that is usually very different reasons. Say, not taking football seriously as a kid, being a lazy trainer, personal problems, injuries and the like. I've never, in the history of football seen a Hernandez type player turn into an Ibra/Villa/Falcao, ever. Have you, if you haven't, then why would you expect Hernandez to become a completely different player in 5 years? The simple fact is he's an incredibly limited player, theres nothing wrong with that, the only thing I've ever said is Utd should aspire to have Falcao's and Ibra's in their ranks, not Hernandez's.
One of the ways you can afford players like Falcao, is to stop wasting cash on players like Welbeck, Hernandez.
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