#Dont push the red button acheivements professional#

Then, he made the ill-advised decision to return to England to rejoin Chelsea, where his stock plummeted once again. Romelu Lukaku rebuilt his reputation at Inter after a trying time at Manchester United, which ended with Gary Neville accusing him of being overweight and unprofessional. And maybe he would flourish in a more attack-minded side.īut there is a growing and justifiable fear that a move to Atleti may have been a case of too much, too soon for one so young.

He's yet to reach double figures over the course of a single campaign and hasn't scored once so far this term. He's found it tough going in La Liga, though. However, he was being compared with true legends like Kaka and Rui Costa, and even the latter was convinced that Felix had the footballing intelligence and strikers' instinct to make a real name for himself.

#Dont push the red button acheivements professional#

That also felt like a colossal sum of money at the time, of course: the teenager had only one season of professional football under his belt. Indeed, since arriving at Atleti from Benfica in 2019, he has sparkled only sporadically, largely failing to justify his staggering €126m (£106m/$138m) transfer fee. Joao Felix already has a plaque on the 'Legends Walk' at the Wanda Metropolitano, having passed 100 appearances for Atletico Madrid earlier this year.īut it would be difficult to portray the Portuguese as a big hit in Spain. The argument goes that he benefited enormously from Antonio Conte's inspired decision to switch to a back three in 2011, as it meant the ball-playing Bonucci could focus on instigating attacks with his wonderful and wide range of passing, while being carried by the two other famed members of Juventus' 'BBC', Giorgio Chiellini and Andrea Barzagli, for the best part of a decade.Ĭertainly, Bonucci has looked a little more exposed with Chiellini and Barzagli now gone, but it does seem a little harsh to completely dismiss the defensive qualities of a centre-back who was named man of the match in the final of Euro 2020, and included in the team of the tournament, more for the dirty work he did in defence than his eye-catching contributions further forward.

However, there is also a school of thought in Italy that Bonucci has never been a particularly good defender either. Leonardo Bonucci is under fire again from his own fans, with Juventus ultras upset that the centre-back is their club captain: 'He has never been a leader, and never will be.'