Don’t think your facts quite match your point there.
He’s been a young player at Chelsea. Like so many other young English lads at the big clubs he hasn’t had a cat in hells chance of getting anywhere near their first team. He gets shipped out on loan all over the place. Managers there don’t have to “assess if he’s good enough or not” – they just want to fill a gap for a couple of months.
He ends up with us. Our manager decides he wants a right footed centre forward on the left, even though we don’t have a centre forward worthy of the name in his place. He doesn’t get a chance.
Ends up at Swansea with his best years of development time at the top level: ages 18-21 behind him. He’ll never be the player he might have been.
Scott Sinclairs career so far is the epitome of all thats wrong with English football, as shown in the World Cup. If he’d been German, maybe, just maybe he may be an international regular by now.
On the other hand, he may be a terrible trainer with a bad attitude. Or never quite up to it. My point is, we have no idea of that from what we’ve seen at Latics.
