He’s not ‘one of our young players’ in the traditional sense though, he’s a new player bought for the first team for big money who happens to be young. ‘Earning a chance’ shouldn’t mean he has to do some sort of apprenticeship in the reserves any more than it did for Cristiano Ronaldo or Dan James. If he’d come up through the ranks then of course, his full debut would come via earning it in the academy. But Diallo earned his chance at United while he wore an Atalanta shirt.
A confusing post.
We have in likelihood paid about 20m€ for him at this point. It’s not that big money.
You’re answering a post saying his chances shouldn’t be based on hype, and you mention Ronaldo? I get you’re also mentioning Dan James, but James were three years older and had played multiple games at adult level. If we should put Diallo through a similar developmental path to those, we would send him on loan (which no one advocates), let a lone have him play a few games with the U23s.
He is already in the first team squad, training with them in their buble, so he obviously is not considered as a U23 player.At Atalanta, he has earned a place in our firat team squad. Wich I guess nobody disputes. Has he, at Atalanta, proven to be a better option right now than Rashford, Mata and Dan James? I think at the present moment, that is definitively disputable. But a bit pointless, as I guess none of us have much of a clue based on his 57 minutes so far.
I for one am interested in seeing him get cameos for the first team soon if he shows on the training outch that he’s ready. This probably makes me a sober sceptic in this thread, whereas some think it’s a clear mistake not to start him ahead of Rashford, Mata and James against Southampton, based on god knows what.
Where are you on this continuum?