Alan Shearer - first 77 league games for Southampton - 10 goals, including when he was 20 (same age as Lewin) played 36 games in the league - scored 4 goals. his reputation at that age was massively enhanced when he finished top scorer at the under 21's tournament after that season, and the rest as they say is history...
At the same age Harry Kane had played 1 league game for Spurs, Linker at the same age for example i believe had played maybe 8-9 games for Leicester?
People aren't looking at him as a 20 year old kid starting week in week out - but instead comparing him to these players who where already 1-3 years older than he was by the time they started featuring in the side.
Be interesting how our fans would have treated that Shearer 36 games and only scoring 4 goals season, my guess is he would be having the exact same things said about him as Lewin is - if not worse.
I've seen very few people writing off his career though, most are just saying he's not good enough to be playing right now. None of what you've posted really refutes that does it?
I think he has some good attributes, and I've seen enough players blossom later to know that judging his future career now would be ridiculous, but I'm inclined to agree with those who don't believe he offers enough right at this moment.
I hate this “doesn’t score enough goals” crap. If we look over the course of the season he plays a major part in almost all of the goals we’ve scored.
He might not be Lukaku but without his contribution we would be fooked right now.
You're right, but we have to put it in context by saying that would always be the case with the way this team is set up.
We don't have a load of runners from midfield, our wingers aren't really wingers, and our full backs rarely venture forward, so the striker will inevitably be involved in most of our goals. If we class Rooney as a striker, only 3 of our league goals this season (excluding penalties) have come from non-strikers. All of those have come in the last 3 weeks. In terms of being
directly involved in goals, DCL has been involved in 6, while Niasse has been involved in 5 (in around 1/3 of the gametime) and Rooney has been involved in 10, so I think it's a fair argument that he doesn't quite offer the level of threat we would like. That's no slight on him, it's to be expected at his age, but it's understandable that many fans would like to see someone up there who looks a bit more threatening.