Mainoldo
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They won’t understand your sense lad. They’ll tell you how many games he played. I’m sure De Bruyne could have got the same amount of minutes if he stayed at Chelsea too.. but from his own words he didn’t understand why he was dropped and decided to leave. Sounded stupid at the time but who’s stupid now.Of course it's comparable. The whole point of my point of my post was showing how similar the situations are. Lukaku didn't leave Chelsea because they loaned him out, he was happy to go on loan, loans = games = development. He wanted to leave because Mourinho signed older players to play in his place. Similar to how Martial wants to leave because Mourinho has signed Sanchez to play in his place.
And let's stop with this myth that he can't handle competition. Competition is exactly what Martial had with Rashford at the start of the season. Rashford was the starter and Martial was on the bench. But did he sulk and cry like his attitude obsessed critics like to pretend he does? No. He was given a fair amount of opportunities, proved he was the better player and forced his way into the team. But ever since we signed Sanchez his opportunities have been a joke, 6 starts in 21 games, two of which were in a position he had almost no experience in, all scattered at random with no consecutive games... vs Sanchez who started 11 consecutive games while contributing almost nothing after we signed him. It's delusional to consider that 'competing for places', it's one player being given preferential treatment over another, which is exactly the sort of unfairness that De Bruyne cited as the reason for why he left Chelsea.
Mourinho has an extremely notable pattern for disregarding talented young players, Martial (and Shaw since you bring it up) are just the latest examples.