In every transfer season, foreign players desire to come to the Premier League but also accompanied by high risks if they did not adapt to the terrible intensity of this tournament. Statistics show that players from the remaining 4 tournaments when coming to the Premier League have a decrease performance due to the inadequate.
Reality and illusion
Up to this summer, the Premier League teams have spent at least 35 million euros for 21 different players. Among them, 12 people from the Premier League clubs.
The two most expensive contracts in the summer, Florian Wirtz and Hugo Ekitike, both moved to Liverpool, from the Bundesliga. Arsenal's two biggest rookie, Martin Zubimendi and Viktor Gyokeres, came from the Spanish and Portuguese league respectively. In the three biggest deals of Man City, Tijjani Reijnders and Rayan Cherki from Serie A (Italy) and Ligue 1 (France).
If you have been watching the Premier League long enough, you may react instinctively when listening to the above: mocking a extremist supporter to call TalkSport or imitating an amateur audio expert on Sky Sports. But then you could not stop yourself: “Can he do that in the Premier League?”
In 2010, commentator Andy Gray was famous for his speech: Lionel Messi “will have difficulty in a cold night at Britannia”, Stoke City's home ground.
Note that when Gray said that, Messi headed his goal in a 2-0 victory over Man United in the Champions League final a year and a half earlier. And in the following season, that comment, Messi continued