You just took that whole comment out of context... I was talking about pressure. Lingard isn't affected by it, younger players probably will be.
That's the point, Lingard should be affected by pressure, he is not, simply because he's been shite and he's still playing. And ultimately whether he is affected by pressure or not is far less important, he's not good enough, he's actually useless as shown even though as you say pressure does not affect him. Play shit against West Ham start in the CL against Barcelona. No pressure to deliver since apparently movement and running is good enough for most of you.
There should always be pressure at the highest level and these young players will have to learn to live with it. Apparently now we are teaching them that you can be an underperforming average footballer who's useless and gets picked while earning 100k+ a week.
Also our team is playing poorly in general, it's not just Lingard. Rashford, Martial, Lukaku, Pogba, Matic, Herrera, Young have all had terrible games recently.
Our team is playing poorly in general but if you fail to see how awful and useless Lingard is by a mile then nothing can be done. And it's not like it's the last 2 games. He's had plenty of shit games even when we were winning, just nobody wanted to state the obvious. I was branded as a hater for stating the obvious. Now the revolt is much bigger since we are loosing.
Young falls in the same category as Lingard and he's wearing the armband. Matic has been underperforming as well and still getting picked, so it's not only Lingard. Lukaku gets slated on here regularly even though he's much more useful then Jesse. Martial and Rashford should be criticized as well, but they've been better than Lingard even though being younger.
There is little to be gained from playing young players in a badly performing side which is still under big pressure to win the next 5 games against tough opponents. So far the young players have played due to injury crisis (PSG) and a couple of games for experience. They have shown nothing that warrants their inclusion in the first team. That's not a criticism of their ability, just a fact. Just because they have higher potential, doesn't mean they are better now. People forget that in Rashford and Dalot we already have two young players in our first team. Shaw and Lindelof are also young for defenders.
How can you say there's little to be gained from playing young players? And what is to be gained by playing the same shit overpaid pros who have let us down so many times? What exactly? Is young going to turn into Cafu over night? No he won't he will probably cost us again in the next 5 games just like he did against Wolves. Or is Lingard going to turn into Christian Eriksen over night? No they won't.
Or you say they haven't shown anything that warrants their inclusion. Have these players on 100k a week shown they deserve to wear this shirt? No they haven't, and we award them with game time while 3 of the most promising players in the last couple of years don't.
And your last point makes no sense. I just said that we'll be releasing players in the summer who don't perform. Obviously that will increase chances for youth players to make it through into the first team next season. What's not to understand?
What's in there that makes no sense? Lingard just finished 90 minutes at the Nou Camp after being absolutely appalling, and that after being absolutely appalling over the weekend. In addition we just renewed the contracts of Young and Phil Jones, two players who have been absolutely woeful so many times. That's awarding being shite and it makes no sense.
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