Bukayo Saka doesn’t need another breakout season to prove what level he belongs at.
The consistency, the pressure he carries, the goals, the assists and the way defenders prepare specifically for him people sometimes forget how difficult that is to maintain.
Give Saka space and he hurts you. Give him two defenders and he still finds a way. Arsenal’s star boy. ⭐️
🚨𝗠𝗔𝗝𝗢𝗥 𝗕𝗥𝗘𝗔𝗞𝗜𝗡𝗚: It's reported that, Manchester city paid more than £51m for Erling Haaland, they paid more than what PSG paid for Neymar (€222m) in 2017.
Allegedly, City paid close to €250m but reached a secret agreement with Dortmund not to disclose the actual amount and also, Some journalists were paid to report £51m as the transfer fee.
Bruno Fernandes on meeting Erling Haaland:
“I respect Haaland a lot. He is one of the most dangerous strikers in football, but what I admire most is his mentality. He always wants to score, improve and win.
Meeting him was a great moment. We have competed against each other many times, but there is always respect between players.” 🇵🇹🤝🇳🇴
The issue is that Chelsea fans judge or want to see Neto like a YouTube winger.
Managers judge him like a footballer. That's why he keeps starting.
Since different Chelsea managers have trusted him and different Portugal managers too have trusted him, I don't think we should be asking
"Why do these coaches always start Neto?"
It should be...
"What are we the fans missing"?
Most people think his biggest strengths are his pace and work rate.
They're not.
Imo, his biggest strengths are his tactical discipline and reliability.
Managers love players that follow instructions and players they can trust.
Neto is that guy.
Tell Neto to press, he'll press.
Tell him to track back, he'll track back.
Tell him to protect his full back, he'll do it all game.
He's like the dream right or left handed partner for every full back...especially the shaky and most violated ones like Kounde.
He may not give you 200 stepovers or flashy YouTube comps, but he'll give you a lot of structure, intensity and discipline.
That's why managers keep picking him.
You call him Pedro Neto
I call him our Buggatti.