VP89
Pogba's biggest fan
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Hilariously daft post. Lukaku was 19 goals shipped from the squad. Regardless of his weight concerns, the man could put the ball in the back of the net better than anyone we currently have. Selling him with no one established line up was naieve and well, stupid.So he's supposed to keep
A) Overweight, overpaid, under performing and grossly unprofessional Lukaku just for shit n giggles?
B) Sanchez.... see above, bar the over weight but clearly grossly unfit (constant injuries)
Instead opts for the long term view of promoting and continually involving youth players who have
A) Far better attitudes
B) Superior fitness levels
C) Greater Upside
The reality is he took over a squad full of poor senior players (any number of reasons why as listed above and more) and untested / not ready youth players... I think we call this scenario a rock and a hard place.
As you can clearly see, its not rocket science.
Glossing over your ridiculous bias, being "hungry" or having a potentially "greater upside" means feck all if you haven't established anything, or if it's not realised. You're just sitting on an armchair, assuming there is greater upside. Obviously most of the players he has named aren't ready to take the mantle completely from established players, so yes it isn't rocket science to keep Lukaku. And after selling Lukaku, it made no sense to sell Sanchez. The man was nearing in on fitness, was always hungry to kick on, had a decent copa America and AT WORST would be a decent squad option to look to in stages such as this. We still pay half his wages for fecksake it's beggars belief.
And you conveniently forgot Fellaini and Herrera. Selling two players who would make an impact on your midfield and at least allow Pogba to be deployed further up was again, daft. Now here we are, 2 midfielders unreplaced, 2 attackers unreplaced and still no fecking right winger. So yes, it's pretty fecking stupid to say the least.
The argument of us needing to do it in other windows is half baked. Sell when you have the replacement, and buy when right players are available. There were multiple options for us in these positions outright ignored because we were dicking around or reportedly after a Brexit FC side. If Ole knew he wasn't getting a single attacker this window, then don't sell 2 for fecksake. If he knew we weren't getting a single midfielder then again, don't sell 2.
Changing the squad is fine, but do it while buying the right players. Don't rip us into a skeleton side and have us even less competitive. He could have sold one attacker one midfielder Smalling, Darmien and that's still progress in the cull.