Walk, Walk, Walking Away?
Kyle Walker is on the verge of leaving Man City.
This is a guest article by Chirag Sharatkumar. Subscribe to Sideline Stories.
Kyle Walker has been a Manchester City player for over eight years, and there’s a reason for that. There’s also a reason why, now, his time is coming to an end. But none of this — the speculation, the shifting form, the talks of decline — should take away from what he has accomplished at City, much less how he has done it.
He has lived through an era of extraordinary dominance; not only lived through it but in some ways, defined it. Six Premier League titles, including four on the trot, two FA Cups, and a Champions League title that made up only the 10th treble in the history of European competition.
And yet, somehow, Walker is still often reduced to a footnote, a man valued more for what he has and less for who he is.
He has been, for lack of a clearer metric, one of the Premier League’s finest defenders for the better part of the last decade. Let’s get the obvious out of the way: yes, he’s rapid. Or at least he was until his age very naturally started catching up to him. But that’s not all he is, and it’s not all he should be thought of as.
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