Does he really not look good or is it just revisionism as usual? I’ll probably choose the latter.
Doesn't look as good as expected, but it's easy to forget his age. He might be brilliant when he is 27 or 28 but he was never going to be here then anyway, not a chance.
The issue with him is simple, if he wants to leave he goes, the club never held anyone back in that position.
What I don't see from him is marked improvement, he doesn't look significantly better now than the 19 year old at Ajax. And when you're playing in a so-called defensive team it should be easier to stand out as a defender. Ok, he's not exactly playing under Conte's Juve but who honestly didn't expect more from him?
To me he was an investment on both the financial and technical side, we knew we'd at least get our money back if he was either not great or wanted to leave. Best case scenario would have been him actually playing very well and we could have gotten well over €100m for him.