I'm really pleased for Rogers and glad he seems to have cemented his place in Villas starting line up.
Not sure he's worth £80m like and not sure we'll see him in an England shirt imminently. There's stiff competition in his position(s). He's competing with Foden, Bellingham, Palmer, Gordon, Grealish, Maddison, Eze etc.
I always find it interesting when people drag up old threads and try and claim a bit of superiority on why they were proved right or someone else was proved wrong. As time goes by, there can be a lot of things forgotten.
That thread was from the 2nd of September which was the evening after we'd been beaten by QPR at home 2-0 and we had been shocking. It was our 5th game without a win and Rogers had started all 5 matches. He had been poor up until that point. He had shown a few glimpses of what he was capable but on the whole he hadn't done enough. Carrick obviously agreed with this as it was the last league game he started for a long time. In fact he didn't start another league game until 28th November, 13 games later. Crooks, McGree and Greenwood were all played in front of him. When he came back into the team he really started to show what he was capable of. I just think people should bare this in mind when looking back and it gives those posts a bit of context.
I'm active on that thread that has been linked but more having a moan about Carrick's selections. I haven't made any posts about Rogers that I regret in that thread or the other one that was bumped up. I think the only post in either of them where I've made a direct comment about Rogers is this one
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