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Is five time Premier League winner and Manchester City talisman Kevin de Bruyne actually… Underrated? 🤔
Teammate Kyle Walker recently put him in the same bracket as Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo. High praise for a player who’s never… Checks notes… Won the Premier League Player of the Month award?!
Something has to give. JJ Bull investigates.
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44 Comments
I really love watch Kevin de bruyne 😊
Now search the same statistics outside Prem in the whole world you'll notice he is second first is messi just showing how he is a midfielder for in his later stages
People spent a week talking about it
Then the athletic gets this guy to say it like its new knowledge
Everyday I hate Internet even more
I’m 25 years old and kevin de Bruyne easily goes into the top 5 of best players I’ve ever seen and when I say that I mean actually watched a full career essentially, not old clips on YouTube
No he’s the opposite not fit enough and as good as he is availability is the best ability
He isn’t underrated right now. Put a poll out on the best PL midfielder of all time, he’ll top it atm, people are hyped + recency bias
Possibly the best player to have ever played in the prem
Yeah, look what happened with injury. Haaland scores because he trusts KDB, And KDB is a sodding machine, and Grealish just don't quit for em.
Damn salah
I think he's actually slightly overrated currently, however he definitely deserves some player of the months and thankfully pundits have often credited him as one of, if not the best player in the league across many of the past seasons
People genuinely thing bruno is better than kdb when he just only passes it forward on their one chance to score from counter attack open play
Maybe we got desensitized looking at how good he is
Antony: 17 matches, 0 goals, 0 assists.
KDB: 2 matches, 1 goal, 1 assist.
Who is the most underrated player in the Premier League? 👇
Mufc fan here and i have said KDB is the best player in the league since 2017? We the fans give him the praise, the media do not. Ofcourse not. He is not english.
English media is very scared to be positive towards foreigners as they reserve that spotlight for their love and hope:
The lord himself reincarnated. Lord Harry Maguire☺️
Is it a question of him being underrated OR goalscorers being overrated?
The guy needs a ballon d'or. The fact that jorginho and modric won one, makes it absolutely crazy that he didn't won one. He is 20 times as good as both of them.combin3d
In premier league….
Honestly, I didn't know he's never won a PL player of the month award and in my own circle of football fans I've not yet come across a single person who doesn't think he's world class – he's certainly been my favourite PL player ever since he joined City.
Bad take. He's the most creative player in the best team that scores the most goals, of course he is going to lead the stats in creative aspects. Put him at Brentford and see how he does, obviously he's an amazing player but these stats have nothing to do with it
Where are you getting it from that Kevin De Bruyne is underrated?
Kevin De Bruyne is not underrated. I don't understand why isn't winning player of the month but he's not underrated.
Yes, it is just you. KdB is appropriately rated. Every debate involving him I see ranks him as one of the greatest midfielders ever.
never won player of the month is absolutely unbelievable
MOST UNDERRATED
He’s incredibly high paid and a starter for the best club on the planet. It’s just you…
Essentially a victim of his own success
I gave the same reason when i heard this question. He is doing great which is kind of normal for everyone. But suppose Rashford scores a goal he automatically becomes player of the month.
Camera angle is really weird.
He will finish his career best prem player ever !
JJ BULL!!!
KDB is so good that you just have to enjoy him. Rival fan or not, you just have to enjoy him.
He's the best Prem midfielder ever, without a doubt, and he's getting close to being in the mix for best midfielder of all time. If he stays at this level for a few more years until retirement then he will undoubtedly be in the conversation
Nah he's not underrated, everyone knows he's a midfield legend
Kdb is overrated, hes good but nowhere near the best player midfielders
He won 2 undeserved player of the year awards
A short like this should be made for Mohamed Salah not KDB. KDB gets all his due credit and more.
Is he underrated? I thought most people consider him the current best player in the world?
I felt like he was underrated a few years ago. I think people realize how important he is but maybe still not enough know.
Nostalgia merchants will never convince he's not better than Kaka
De Bruyne would have already been named the best midfielder the premier league has ever seen, if his name was Kevin D. Brown, from London.
U can have your opinion but for me
He is the 3rd best player of this generation ofcourse after messi ronaldo.
Not neymar no lewa no suarez
8 years of prime, magic on field
And i am telling u right now, after 6,7 years u will see a midfield generation full of inspired by KDB.
After
He should've won the 2023 ballon d'Or…
🤯 not even a player of the month award? I'm kinda surprised
He's very good. Inconsistent a tiny bit.