Feels like there's a specific pattern where a player gets hyped heavily at 17-19, has a genuinely strong breakout season around 20-22, and then plateaus rather than continuing the trajectory everyone assumed was coming. Not sure if this is a data-backed pattern across football broadly or just confirmation bias from a handful of memorable cases that get brought up more than the ones who did keep developing.
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