Hoof the ball
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I don't agree that we need to send him somewhere out on loan where he can play and develop without pressure. Pressure is good for development. Becoming accustomed to mental pressure is refining tool for great talents. Imagine if Monaco loaned out Mbappe at 17 to Sochaux for the sake of pressure-free development instead of playing him in key, crucial CL and league games as one of their main CF's. Perhaps the Mbappe we know now might be a year or more behind his current trajectory. His exposure to pressure was the making of him. It's not true that young players uniformly all require the absence of pressure to develop, or that it's even the best method. All that to say that I'm not talking about throwing him in the deep end and making him responsible for our success, but that staying at United and developing mental strength through coping with a poorer season can often be the driving motivation which drastically improves his performance in the next one.