When summer signing Lisandro Martinez was hooked off at half-time against Brentford, there were concerns that he might not make it as a Premier League defender. Pundits and supporters from other teams were already writing his obituary in career terms. How wrong they were.
Any player who touches down in the UK needs time to bed in. Perhaps not Erling Haaland, mind.
However, when it comes to Martinez, there was a pre-fixed agenda regarding his diminutive stature and how he couldn't possibly make his mark on these shores. In some cases that narrative has continued as he makes each and every one of those dissenters look more clueless by the day.
