ItDoesntEvenMata
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Love this! Really hoping he can get a run of games, especially with Europa on the horizon and kick on to some good form. Technically and talent-wise he's one of our top tier players and I think he can get back to the Dortmund levels.
I thought after a semi-promising pre-season last year, he should have got more than 80 mins across 3 games when Antony and Martial were clearly not to standard and in the latter case, not bothered at all.
Still think he's been slightly right place, wrong time with things - from the weird start under Ole, to Rangnick and then the fall out with Ten Hag, which was the culmination of a lot of frustration. I don't forget the backdrop of him arriving post suffering horrific racist abuse for the crime of missing a penalty. There's a player in there, world-class potentially, and if he doesn't come to the fore then at least pretending he might will put some £££ onto his price tag.
I hope in part too that this shows that maybe Ten Hag can soften with the new structure behind him. That he feels he can reintegrate a player where before it would have sent the wrong message in terms of player power without a strong board/ structure to back the manager
I thought after a semi-promising pre-season last year, he should have got more than 80 mins across 3 games when Antony and Martial were clearly not to standard and in the latter case, not bothered at all.
Still think he's been slightly right place, wrong time with things - from the weird start under Ole, to Rangnick and then the fall out with Ten Hag, which was the culmination of a lot of frustration. I don't forget the backdrop of him arriving post suffering horrific racist abuse for the crime of missing a penalty. There's a player in there, world-class potentially, and if he doesn't come to the fore then at least pretending he might will put some £££ onto his price tag.
I hope in part too that this shows that maybe Ten Hag can soften with the new structure behind him. That he feels he can reintegrate a player where before it would have sent the wrong message in terms of player power without a strong board/ structure to back the manager