I agree, but average is a really unhelpful word to use here.
If you’ve only ever watched Champions League level football then your definition of “average” will be very different compared to if you’ve spent your life watching lower league football.
I posted the Lewis McGugan goal, but was a bit hesitant to call him average because he was one of the best players in the Championship at the time.
Whereas OP gave Richarlison (20 goals in 43 appearances for Brazil) as their example of an average player.
Totally, I attend a lot of National League games. The standard is still worlds above anything anyone here could even dream of getting close to.
Yet when we got to the FA Cup third round and played Watford, up close this PL also-ran team were on another planet.
Any of those Watford players (Deeney aside) would be deemed “average” by most people here yet were probably in the top 1% of football pros on the planet.
I agree, but average is a really unhelpful word to use here.
If you’ve only ever watched Champions League level football then your definition of “average” will be very different compared to if you’ve spent your life watching lower league football.
I posted the Lewis McGugan goal, but was a bit hesitant to call him average because he was one of the best players in the Championship at the time.
Whereas OP gave Richarlison (20 goals in 43 appearances for Brazil) as their example of an average player.
Totally, I attend a lot of National League games. The standard is still worlds above anything anyone here could even dream of getting close to.
Yet when we got to the FA Cup third round and played Watford, up close this PL also-ran team were on another planet.
Any of those Watford players (Deeney aside) would be deemed “average” by most people here yet were probably in the top 1% of football pros on the planet.