Yea, this is definitely a signing that myself and the analytics community has gotten badly wrong (so far). Hopefully we continue to look stupid.
Tanev has been outstanding so far and the Hanifin-Tanev pairing as a whole has been incredible and played like an elite, elite top D-pair.
The crazy thing is the difference in quality of play between playing with Hughes (where Tanev was atrocious) and playing with Hanifin (where he's been flat out incredible). I really like how the article goes into detail about why they compliment eachother so perfectly and why they work sooooo much better together than Hughes-Tanev did.
I'm happy to be looking dumb at the moment, and I hope to continue looking that way for the entirety of the contract, but I don't want to get my hopes up just yet
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