No one at the club forced Ronaldo to go on Piers Morgan. No one forced Sancho to tweet out deflecting blame and questioning the managers' integrity.
Whatever is happening behind closed doors, Rashford needs to be smart enough to not do what he's just done. The guy is 26 and on his ninth season in the first team squad. It might be a rough patch we are going through, but as one of the senior players he needs to make sure that he doesn't pour additional gas on the fire. He can't do it on the field at the moment (for whatever reason), but you'd expect he could at least keep it professional off it. Apparently not.
Evidence that he lied to the club? As you say, that would be pretty stupid given that he was on camera.
Hasbeens.
Absolutely. It's not the first time he picked up on something before others caught on, either.
I’ll go on record and say that Rashford certainly
The evidence is the backtracking the club had to do because he told them he was ill without telling them he'd been partying a few hours prior.
His personal stats last season were top class. He hasn't got a Premier League or Champions-League to his name but he's done a lot better than most players in the league and is still young enough to do something about the aformentioned titles. I simply question why there's problem after problem. And most flair players who never had this kind of problems before have suddenly become so-called bad eggs. What's going on here? Sure Ten Hag plays his part, but before his time the atmosphere was toxic already.
Sancho plays game after game for BVB. He just confirms what Rangnick already said, the boy is alright. Ronaldo doesn't seem to have any performance related problems in Saudi. He easily outperforms all the new European players so he's still got it.
You must have got your geography or your politics mixed up as I can assure you there's no one in Northern Ireland that doesn't think/consider England a different country thankfully
I could agree with that theory. It may explain the half arsed efforts this season as he doesn’t want to risk injury, and new contracts mean shit these days. It says it’s another four years but there’s probably some stipulations, clauses and other pre-agreements in there regarding if Team X came in with £Xm minimum, then we would look to honour that.
You're speaking to the converted here. I was probably the first here to highlight the lunacy of giving long term contracts to injury prone players (ex Jones) or player with a career threatening illness. If the club wanted to give these players full access to the treatment room then it could do so by giving these players a short contract on normal salary (ex Tommasi at Roma). Alternatively they could help them go into coaching. I always judged players on what they do on the pitch rather then the charity that they do outside and I got absolutely pelted on the Sancho issue mainly for stating the obvious (situation is unsustainable and unless Sancho's performance improve then expect fireworks), Regarding football staff I was always a big supporter of us hiring top people as opposed to former players and chancers. They understand the football world and won't be taken for a ride as the likes of Murtough does. I always highlighted the risk of us having players who only turn up when their contract was expiring as well.
Agreed with this.
And he had different type of personalities to work with as well. From a boomer who likes sexual innuendos, the us vs the world kind of manager, nice cops/nice cops combo (Ole & Mike Phelan), a consultant german dad, and now a cryptocurrency. So he has exhausted all possible options. As the old saying goes 'if everyone is a prick, you are the prick'.
absolutely - he also doesn't have the goals/performances to add weight to his name like he might have gotten last season.
You're only allowed to have a personal life if you win, is that it?
Damning.
He'd be good on The Traitors
Sancho confirmed what every other manager has said about him - he trains like shit and has serious issues.
Maybe he’s just laying the seeds of giving fans something to be upset about so there isn’t an uproar when we sell him
Can you just confirm the other two for those of us who can’t recall them? I’m assuming that you aren’t including being late for training once as that would be ridiculous!
Is he really that smart, I highly doubt it. Especially if he believes that the fanbase are going to be upset at not having to see him run into hundreds of dead ends every game, hardly ever looking up to pass the ball at 26 years of age.
Calls Rashford a cnut but wants Greenwood back at the club. You can't make this up.
Because everyone dislikes him now so he gets blamed for everything.
Missing that meeting which led to him being on bench against Wolves. Going out after we had lost 3-0 to City. Yes it was his birthday but surely he could have had people round instead.
The problem with some modern players however is that they fail to take the necessary sacrifices to be a top level performer.
