Dude, what are you talking about...
Stop mentioning Italians here, I'm not hater and I'm not being biased. How can you say he's not overrated, weren't you following transfer section? When we talked about a possible striker do you know people called his name? Many of them? Did you check that poll? When his price was mentioned nobody said a thing about it, they didn't mind it. What else has to be said to call a player overrated?
Its not just you, but since there are vacuum/drought of really quality italian players to replace its world class stars (except De Rossi and Chiellini), which is obvious, and due to that there has been too much downplaying or dismissing of every decent italian player, even if people dont expect them to be world class (or compare them to the best in the bussiness), there is this attitude of "he is italian, he is shit" with many 20 something italian player.
And in this Pazzini is a clear case, who the fuck expects him to be the new Vieri or whatever? But I kept reading is him being called shit, terrible or whatever, when he is not at all. There is a clear gap between shit player and top player.
And I dont really care about random polls, people are usually rather fickle with those, I have yet to see ANYONE making disporportionate flowering remarks of Pazzini that elevate him above what he is. Thats usually a good sign of overrated.
And FYI, if he is to be sold, it will be for 15m or such, Samp bought him for 9m when he couldnt score more then defenders, and now for 1 year he has been prolific and consistent scorer for them, so that price is just the expected valuation. Whoever wants to pay that though, is another question. Genoa would be fools not to, IF he wasnt at Samp that is, hehe.