newyddion
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Downing was treat with far too much familiarity by our fans, he got shafted out of a dream move to Spurs to keep boro stable financially, he stayed in the January to keep us up when yet again he could have moved. Came back from injury to boss it at Aston Villa, was hard done to at Liverpool imo and had a tough time if it with England.. very Chelsea centric.. his state speak for themselves.. he was amounght the very best in the prem and still flying high with West Ham when he returned to boro to fulfil a lifelong dream.This thread makes me realise that I often feel I see a different game to others.
For example, I read the threads about Traore, who I have nothing against, seems a decent enough lad who always tried hard but in my opinion didn’t earn the plaudits he received.
Conversely Stuart Downing, positively the best footballer I’ve seen us produce, a Boro lad also has been unduly hammered on here by some. Despite being a sublimely gifted player and one of the best crosser and long range passer I can recall.
I just can’t fathom it??
Traore was like a shiny toy that we weren’t meant to have, at the same time as him being the new Lionel Messi.. he was non league at best, brainless, like a headless chicken.
Folks came around when he left or £18m but he had his knickers the same as Shwarzer and more recently Tavernier. Raw pace is easy to understand, it’s exciting.
Creating chances, creating space and intelligent movement is more difficult to understand. Not many managed to get te best out of Downing while he was here Karanka, Monk, Pulis.. Mowbray got a tune out of him at the end with Blackburn.
Adama Traore was linked with Spurs, loaned out to Barcelona.. now it looks like he’s gonna leave on a free at the end of the season. Still only 26
2019/20 at his peak with Wolves
2020/21 great again
2021/22 went on loan to Barcelona in the January
With a handful of games for Spain he should have really been there with them at the World Cup if he was progressing as expected.. still could get picked up with a decent contact.
Wolves have offered £3m a season, meanwhile he’s linked with Leeds as well as Napoli