Gilmour and Gallacher out on loan as well so cant see him being there next season
Saul was brought in to be 4th choice.
If Saul is you 6th choice you guys have it very good, our 1st choice are Fred and McT just saying.
In certain areas. Centre forward and goalie not quite such a deep bench!
Could see Chelsea strengthening with a CF in January - keeper id say that Kepa (72 million and playing for spain as recent as 2020) isnt a bad reserve keeper at all
Him keeping DVB company on the bench would have caused mayhem in here
I think the difference is the £40m transfer fee. Nobody would give a shit about VDB not playing if he was just on loan for the season.
If this was us, we would have agreed to sign him and had him keep Sancho and VDB on the bench for the next few seasons whilst he runs his contract down and we struggle to find a buyer to match our valuation. Minimum.
There's struggling and there's struggling.
He seems to be in a mental shell right now. Didn't notice him at all in the first half and while RLC wasn't great either, including losing the ball for Watfords goal, atleast he was willing to come and take the ball. Saul wasn't doing that, sad to see for a player who was so highly rated at one time.
RLC was visibly playing better soon as he stopped having to babysit Saul.
He took some time off for mental health reasons a few years ago. He was dealing with depression I think. Not sure how much of that had to do with his form over the last 2 years.
Hiding, that sounds surprising. Don't know a lot about him to be honest but I can't see someone like Simeone tolerating a hider on the pitch.
he didn’t hence why he wasn’t a regular anymore
Woah. Did not know that at all, hope he doesn't have similar issues at this time during his struggles. We take for granted the mental strength needed to play at the highest level consistently.
Simeone was phasing him out last season and he is completely surplus to requirements there now so it seems he did not tolerate it. In answer to what happened it can just be a mental issue affecting his confidence. I was recently reading about Stephen Hendry who dominated snooker in the nineties and he says that for some unknowable reason he stopped believing in himself and when that happened his game began to fall apart to the point where he retired because playing became torture. Saul was so good good a couple of years ago that it seems like something similar must be happening here.
I wish I could have said the same.
Should have said "About 800 miles".
I was reading a bit today about him and I actually think it's the other way; it's his form and confidence that is effecting his mental health.
He's only on loan so this will be his only season.
When you have Fred and Mctomminy as your main CM players, every player sounds better than those two.
Yet in reality they are much better than Saul!
He's been class for us tbf, although obviously a massive drop in quality
They got him on loan mate. How is that a disaster? Hahahaha.
Granted....but in the context of us spending 60m + on flops I don't think it's the big deal you're making out.
Mctominay cost nothing and Fred was less than £60+ million.
