I think Rogers will struggle after a big money move. He has credit in the bank with us and is, relatively speaking, ignored by the media.
That will quickly change if he’s a £100m player and at a “Man U”. He’ll be torn to shreds when he has one of these bad runs; and the risk is he’d never recover.
I’m not condoning selling him but I’m pretty confident the villa version of Rogers will be his best version.
Hmmm, not sure about that. I think that in a team where there are more creators opponents will perhaps give MR less attention (relatively) than he currently gets and therefore he will have more space to do what he does well. And, he's still in the developmental stage of his career.
Like Watkins, he seems to be physically pretty resilient and that will put him in good stead too.
If he does go, it'll all be about where: if he goes into a team that is too reliant on him he may fail to live up to the hype; if he joins a more mature and successful team he will thrive and grow.