Quote Originally Posted by Smjffy View Post
I was looking at Monaco's transfers out and it's staggering how many flopped. Lemar has been decidedly average since moving to AM, Kongolo and Diakaby both got relegated, Ghezzal couldn't even prove to be a budget version of Mahrez, Mbappe I'm not including since he left technically on loan the year before and Fabinho took a while to get going to.

I legit fear these bigger ££ signings from Ligue 1. It's a bigger lottery than the Dutch league.

It's not just Ligue 1, I think this always happens when you have a team from one of the smaller leagues that has a "golden generation" that over-performs as a unit. More often then not they are all quite young, and have played together for a while, has a manager that manages to get the best out of them as a team, etc. Then when they split that, they individually don't hold up to the task required to change league and team environments (to a higher lever, as well).