Some horrible takes on the Lingard situation.
He refused to leave to "fight for his chance" 2 summers in a row, running down his contract.
Now he has 6 months left, and he is allegedly refusing going to Newcastle on a permanent, and would like to run down his contract on loan.
Crazy stuff we re even entertaining the loan. If he wants to leave so bad, he can accept the permanent deal, but that might reduce his sign on bonus.
For context, can you imagine players going into the last year's of their contracts asking for loans? If Pogba came in during the summer asking to be loaned to Real Madrid, before going there on free anyway, would we accept?
Very dangerous precedent to allow happening. If players don't want to sit on the bench ( which we should be doing to players running out of contract time), then they can leave on permanent. Not run down their contracts on loan.
For context, imagine Martial wanting to extend his Sevilla loan until his contract runs out, taking 30+ million value off his contract. Don't think we d entertain it.
Loans are for player development, or players needing gametime to be put in shop window, or to make a claim if they find form.
The 4 mils the club is set to pocket is not worth allowing players such as Lingard to absolutely bully the club out of any return on investment.
No player is bigger than the club, and there are no salaries we can't afford. I'm positive had we kept Pogba on the bench last season, he d have had a lot more motivation to leave on a permanent, and we wouldn't have to pocket circa 50 mils loss for that reason.
I miss the days of SAF bullying the players into realizing they are a non entity when compared to the benefit of the club