I do love the fact that so many of us are saying he can and can't do this.
Truth is, until he's given the chance we will never really know... and to be honest, if Liverpool for example think he's good enough to be scouted, and potentiall signed, then i'll go with their evaluation.
Being surrounded by and playing with better players may actually help up his game... not make him a bench player and stiffle his progress.
Did anyone expect Rufer to go to Europe and do as well as he did (other than Rufer himself), probably not, afterall he was a NZer and we all know we can onnly play the oval game.