There isn't a single conventional belief in management that tells you to aim flip a long term asset for a short term asset unless in a state of desperation or short of choice. We should have moved Martial for a middle to longer term prospect not Perisic. No one is losing sleep over Perisic.
Perisic - had he come - would have come @ 27 years old? Not an old man. About 5 years of playing time is half of most players' playing career in football. It's not a "short-term" for football. Second, we brought Martial in for "potential". He wasn't a ready-article. So the question here is about exchanging a "
potential asset" for a "ready player with productive 5 years". It's not a ready long-term asset vs a ready short-term asset that you're making it out to be.
The very strawman I addressed is in that very quote so let me reiterate. Ole being shite doesn't vindicate Jose.
Not just about Ole. About ALL our managers over the last decade. Nobody has "built" anything. As for vindication - what vindication are we talking about exactly? Nobody is hiding their dislike of Jose's playing style or methods. However, he
has been more right than wrong about the non-technical aspects of the game for most players he coached - be it Martial, Pogba, Shaw, Rashford, etc. This is reflected in Rangnick's team selection as well. So I think it is important to be clear what it is that we are crediting Jose for and what we aren't. Ole's failure or even Jose's failures have no bearing on the fact that Jose's idea about Martial's mentality were correct.
You know damn well it wasn't "half that". The veto price was 60m which was also a fleece from Leicester. Maguire isn't a United CB and Jose was about to blow money.
Depending on which publication you believe - Jose pulled the plug on Maguire because he didn't want the club to spend more than 50m on Maguire. I guess we will never know for sure who had inputs on signing him.
Martial failing also doesn't vindicate Jose who has himself gone on to fail at multiple clubs. If you want to retroactively justify anything from 5 years ago based on today's failure then congratulate the club not listening to him. No wonder Jose's career trajectory since then has closely mirrored Martial's, maybe even worse.
Again, I think we may be conflating two different things here. My only point is that Jose had identified Martial's mental weaknesses a while ago. That he hasn't had the best time post Utd doesn't invalidate that.
It's all subjective. Here's some more subjectivity. Perisic would have done little more. We're not talking about a world class player here. While Martial still had value it shouldn't have been perisic he got swapped for and we were right to part ways with Jose. Just because Martial deserves to be sold doesn't vindicate that Perisic deal.
This is subjective - so you have your opinion re Perisic, and I have mine. Let's leave it at that.
