Konstantinos Mavropanos always seems to be the topic of debate immediately after he’s played for West Ham United.
Konstantinos Mavropanos joined West Ham from Stuttgart in the summer of 2023, for a fee believed to be worth around £19 million.
He was surprisingly linked with a move to Juventus in the summer, but he remained with the Hammers in the end.
Whilst the 26-year-old has undoubtedly impressed at times since moving to the London Stadium, he has also produced some shambolic displays, and has made numerous errors that have led to goals against us.
He cost us points during our clashes with Brentford and Crystal Palace last season, and he hasn’t looked anywhere near the levels required this term.
Mavropanos has actually featured in eight out of the nine Premier League games the Hammers have played this season, with six of them starts.
So Julen Lopetegui clearly sees something in the Greece international that he likes, and maybe there’s a very good reason as to why.
West Ham ace Konstantinos Mavropanos has stunning stats
Described as a player who’s ‘nowhere near Premier League quality’ by talkSPORT pundit Tom Rennie, Mavropanos has received his fair share of criticism since joining West Ham.
I think the main frustration with Hammers fans is that he was actually very good for Stuttgart the two seasons before he moved to the London Stadium, and that he actually has all of the basic ingredients needed to be a top-class centre-back.
However, his stats in the Premier League this season actually make for very good reading indeed.
In eight Premier League appearances, Mavropanos has averaged 1.3 tackles, 1.5 interceptions, 4.3 clearances, 1.1 blocks and 1.6 successful aerial duels per match (Who Scored).
His passing has been pretty impressive as well. He has made 37.9 passes on average per game and has recorded a completion rate of 84.5%.
Those numbers really are fairly impressive, and maybe he deserves more credit than he actually gets.
However, it has to be said, stats aren’t everything.
Konstantinos has failed the so-called ‘eye test’ time and time again when playing for West Ham.
He might look good for 70 minutes, but there always seems to be a lack of concentration or an error that creeps into his game that ends up costing us.
And that’s why I think he’ll never reach the heights that he’s truly capable of in my opinion.
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