NinjaFletch
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No, you're not "happy to accept the argument that it's difficult" to play after being left out of the team for long time. You actually expect him to perform from minute one no matter what, when it's clear most players need to get used to the league and more importantly, some proper game time.
It took Pogba a few months to get into the game rhythm this season. It took Fred a whole season, and he was way worse than van de Beek, who is a decent player just not spectacular. And I guess that is his biggest problem, because people expected him to be Bruno replacement and he doesn't look like one at all. The question is what do we do with Donny-it doesn't seem like Ole has an answer yet.
If you want to play that game, I can put an argument into your mouth that you haven't made, too: I can't believe you think that Donny should be sold to Qarabag purple monkey dishwasher, where are they even going to get the money from ? I don't think he will go to Azerbaijan at any rate.
Wasn't that fun and productive?
Why don't you read through the argument I have made over the last few pages rather than inventing one for me? I could not have made it clearer that I'm not looking to seek recriminations against Donny or to excuse Solskjaer from having managed the situation poorly. What I have said, repeatedly, is that we don't have the evidence one way or the other to know which of those is true at the minute.
What we do know is that Donny hasn't had many minutes and hasn't been up to speed when he has played in them so it's hardly a surprise he wasn't chucked in after 30 minutes against Arsenal. I can't even being to imagine what his fan club would be saying if Solksjaer had done that and he had played poorly.
Anyway, I look forward to realising how similar the points we're making about getting used to the league and needing game time actually are.