Just wondering, not sure yet, hasn't sunk in. Perhaps we shouldn't have bought him in B...
You all know that i'm his biggest fan here, but even though you always agreed with me on this, I don't know what are you trying to achieve with this thread.
I was involved in every discussion about Hamsik and I really don't remember people calling him overrated (except for Fred, who was kinda fooled with Napoli's awful form last year and now Ahmed, who's, I think, saying this in anger).
The disagreement about Hamsik wasn't about him not being good, but it was due to this:
The guy knows were too be. Right place, right time.
Some folks "blame him" for not being more involved in the game and for being invisible throughout the matches.
Now, as someone who follows Hamsik a lot, I agree to certain degree (he does disappear on some matches) but I completely disagree with those who think that he's always like that and he's only about being in the right place at the right time.
Many times, on many matches, he's the engine in Napoli and their playmaker who takes the ball when nothing else works.
I don't have another way how to prove it but by using statistics.
These are the stats about successful attacking passes this year in serie A:
1. Pirlo 426
2. Gargano 328
3. D'Agostino 314
4. Montolivo 307
5. Seedorf 302
6. Melo 292
7. Milanetto 288
8. Hamsik 276
9. Morrone 274
10. Candreva 267
11. Guarente 258
12. De Rossi 251
13. Diego 249
etc
Seriously, can a "ghost" be among the top 8 passers in the league? He's got to be involved in the game a lot, and a lot has to go through him if he wants to be in top 8 passers, right?
Anyway, here's a prediction from me.
Injuries aside, I think he'll score at least 15 goals in serie A this year.
Do you know how much 15 goals in serie A are for someone who isn't a striker? Of how many non-strikers in serie A you can think of from the last 20 years who were scoring 15 goals or more in the league per season?
Baggio? Kaka? Totti?
Fucking Baggio, Kaka and Totti. Legends of the game.
And Hamsik is just 22 years old.
What more can you guys expect from him?
Well, first he needs to score those 15 goals

So far he has 7. None of them were penalty kicks. And he's their penalty kick taker. With this tempo he'll go way over 15, but i'm predicting 15. I won't be pushing it.
