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Diego Brewster? Swings and Roundabouts?
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I note that some blunt Blunts fans are comparing Rhian Brewster's lack of success to Diego de Girolamo a few years ago. In some ways of course the comparison is apposite. Both players were being touted as superstars. Brewster had been the tournament's star player when England won the U-17 World Cup and Diego had represented Italy at every level despite living in Chesterfield, was getting raves from people like Mauritzio Sarri and had every top Italian club stalking his every move. Both players then got enormously serious injuries from which many people never return to professional sport. They both lost over a season at a vital point in their development.

Diego was never the same again. He certainly tried to be. He was loaned out to places like York and Chesterfield, showed a few flashes, but the devastating bursts, extraordinary skill and power shooting were no longer in evidence. He was subject to a lot of abuse for his failure. It was somehow suggested he didn't want it enough, but he still wants to play. Unfortunately he has again become the star man, but it is only with Buxton Town, he may top the charts for the whole league and is certainly a feared player at that level. But whether he could even function again at perhaps Chesterfield's level is questionable, much as he'd like to.

Brewster was on to be a world-beater, but though he worked to get back he hasn't been able to capture that same edge. Whether the injury scarred him mentally, physically, or both remains open to question but he commanded a high fee, because he managed to get a long way back along the road with Swansea where he ended up somewhere in the teens of goals. Marooned at Bramall Lane in a team which was searching for its own lost form from the previous season he never had a chance. He spends much of his time out wide and when he is down the middle he is served by team mates who have seen only failure from him. No wonder he can't re-find any of that lost brilliance.

If I were the Blunts I'd take him out of the firing line. Arrange some friendlies, give him some easy youth and reserve games and play to get him in on goal and keep doing it until he either finds the confidence to start scoring and making the searing runs again, or it becomes obvious he just can't manage it. At the moment he gives me the impression he doesn't really want the ball, and when he does get it he tries to do exactly what he thinks will satisfy the coaches. When he was good, he was cocky and selfish.

With Diego de Girolamo's decline the Blunts had seen how a young player can go backwards due to serious injury, yet they paid a big fee to get Brewster on the basis of a few goals at Swansea who had handled him very carefully. It looks like terrible business, but on the other hand they sold Ramsdale for £800,000 to Bournemouth, after experiencing three relegation campaigns they paid was it £8miilion to get him back and now after getting relegated themselves they've got the best part of £30million for him. Swings and Roundabouts? You pays your money and you takes your chance. Stop whining maybe?
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