Adaptation is always cited when a player comes in from another country to ply his trade in the Premier League. The physical nature of English football, with its high tempo and crunching tackles, has been a major cause of some player’s failing to perform in one of the best leagues in the world. It is said, that to make it in England, you have to have certain characteristics to adapt to its style. Liverpool manager Kenny Dalglish said this about Luis Suarez this week:
“He’s a good person. He’s bubbly and just loves playing football. For the style he is, both as a player and a person, I don’t think he’d find it difficult to fit in anywhere. That’s great credit to him.”
It is a fact that is clearly evident from the Uruguayan’s performances so far that he has seemingly needed no time to adapt whatsoever. Even those with the most ideally designed characteristics for the rigours of English football, it is said that it takes most players at least 6 months to adapt to the tempo and speed of thought necessary to play at the top of your game week in, week out in the Premier League. For some, less ideally suited to the style, it takes even longer to adapt, and for others, the adaptation never takes place at all.
Many of those who failed to adapt came from the lesser leagues of Europe, especially Holland. For every Ruud van Nistelrooy and Sami Hyypia, there is a Mateja Kezman and Alfonso Alves, and for that reason, I certainly wasn’t the only one who was thinking that spending £22.5million on Luis Suarez could have been a risk. Spending more money than we did on Fernando Torres to land the player, could have obviously back fired, but as you can tell from King Kenny’s comments, he never expected the Uruguayan to fail. Both himself and Damien Comolli had done their homework, and knew what they were getting.
Back in January I was fully expecting that I would have to write an article before the end of the season that would have to defend Suarez against accusations that he couldn’t cope with the rigours of the Premier League; that he needed time to adapt. It was clear from the first minute of his debut however, that he would take to the Premier League very quickly indeed.
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Just a quick one for you…
He is not Argentine as stated in the first line second paragraph…
Maybe he has adapted that well that you assume he comes from Argentina lol!!!
He comes from Uruguay! FYI!
Argentine?
argentine.
christ.
i give these three posts a life span of about five minutes.
lets hope the same applies to the writer
mcshattery
do you get paid for writing thrash or is it you hobby?
argentine,wtf?
Very mature of you mate. Ignore the whole article and just focus on one single mistake David made. I’m pretty sure he knows he’s Uruguayan and he knows more about Liverpool FC than you. Give him a break and grow up mate.
Sorry for the error, corrected it now. Bad proof reading on my part!
Cut David some slack, please ! He does a great job writing decent articles and keeping us posted on the happenings around Anfield, it was a mistake and he knows it. Come on people !
he corrected himself later in the article stating correctly suarez is uruguayan aman who never made a mistake never made a shilling fact
Suarez is fantastic, but as I am dutch and know him from Holland I know he can do better. The shots he fired in Arsenal and the complete miss in the united game after that solo are not Suarez like..In Holland he would have blasted them in the roof of the net. He is not quite on that level yet.
this guy is uncomparable type of player whom nobody can predict his skills any time he has ball on his foot,and i believe if the lfc can bring in some top players that has the same skills and sharpness this summer then we the fans should expect the best of [SUAREZ] from next season,he SUREZ is a true new hero that will bring a lot to lfc.
He was actually being tracked from Jan 2010 by Benitez. He tried to sign him a year ago.
Benitez tried to sign every player that turned out to be quality. Unfortunately he was forced to splurge money on the likes of Keane, Johnson and Aquilani instead… *yawn*
its about quality i’d suggest…
truly quality players can adjust immediately…if you take in Liverpools case, Alonso, Torres and now Suarez, its because they are top class players…anyone think Messi would need 6 months to adapt…?
Suarez has been an inspirational signing and is a huge part of why we are where we are now…his work with Kuyt is also bringing the best out of Dirk in the final third…
another 3 or 4 players of this quality in the summer would be superb…lets hope that fenway come good and give the management team the money to invest and move the team forward again…
I agree with you Stringy
This goes to prove something I have always known. A good player can play well no matter what league he is in. Over-rated players struggle when not in their comfort zone. Agents and armchair football “experts” are the ones who boost a players abilities only for them to fail in less than a year.
I’m tired of hearing the continued nonsense about strikers from the Dutch league – which league has a 100% hit rate in producing stars for the Premiership??