Your posts are very confusing and you have me doubting what I'm even supposed to be trying to argue but I'll reply to you on this one last time as it's becoming increasingly tedious.
- So the only thing that would be stopping them being amazing / huge successes is actually playing then?
Not the only thing, no, but the most important. You buy a football player to play football for you, if you don't allow them to do that then it's quite unlikely that they're going to be a big success for you - unless they have another hidden talent?
- okay i see your point. if you are an amazing talent all you need to have is the opportunity to show this, once given that opportunity you will most probably be a huge success?
This is more or less the same as the first point. No player is guaranteed success but given the right conditions and treatment, you give them a good chance of being just that. Lamela obviously needs to adapt to things outside of playing football given he's moved to a new country with a different way of life and language, he needs to be settled off the pitch for him to perform on it. No one knows how he's doing externally but even if everything was perfect for him and he was settled, he still needs time and opportunities on the pitch, that's where his workplace is, not at home.
- So assuming these players were given the opportunity to showcase their ability and they continuously didnt stand out or perform well enough to take someone else's place.....what then?
Is this what you think of Lamela then? He's been given an opportunity and failed to deliver? The answer to your question is that it would depend on the time and opportunities you've given to the player. For example, if we're concluding that a player doesn't deserve his place after three league starts in five months then I would consider that unfair, if a player had played ample amount of games over say two seasons and hadn't shown anything to justify him keeping other players out of the team then you'd have to look at maybe moving them on. It's just a shame that nowadays a player gets a couple of games rather than a couple of seasons.
- further more i take it that lamela hasnt been played or given an opportunity to show his much greater than standard prospect ablilties, because if he had...he would probably have turned in big time performances that would keep him in the first 11? is that right?
He does have "greater than standard prospect abilities", he's shown that in his short career elsewhere. That doesn't mean to say he will 100% definitely realise that here, it may take a run of 3 games, it may take 10, 20, 30 but I don't think you write him off when he's yet to even make consecutive starts. At least give a player a run of games before concluding anything.
My view on you is that you've come across as quite bitter with regards to Lamela for a few months now, it's like you're taking on this role to take him and his fans "down a peg or two". You seem to blame him for the money we've invested in him and blaming him for not turning in Messi-like performances on the rare occasion that he's been given a few minutes. I may have that completely wrong but that's how you've come across in this thread, whenever someone has something positive or constructive to say re. Lamela, you're always the first to offer up the opposite view.
