It looks to me as if one of these 3 will leave our team:
- Alexis - I still don’t see what he is contributing to the team. He has disrupted our team flow as well as the development of Martial and Rashford. He does show flashes of brilliance, but not producing nearly enough for such a highly payed professional. He wants to play in the LW position, but he may have lost the extra 3% of speed that allowed him to be effective there in the past. It’s dangerous to play him as a 10 because he loses the ball too much and teams could cut us open. He might be better suited to play eithr as a main striker or second striker, but Mourinho doesn’t play 2 strikers and Lukaku is a Mourinho style beast. He would be my choice to get rid of him in January, but how do we move a player on such high wages?
- Mourinho. I am not one of those Mourinho out people. But I can easily see that if Alexis doesn’t pick up and perform, we will keep dropping points and it will cost Mourinho his job. It’s hard to tell how and why Mourinho takes some decisions, but he is constantly creating drama and seems to have favorites in the team more thannother coaches. I don’t mind the drama as long as he gets results. But drama without a team that puts fear into our opponents becomes a distraction. If things don’t pick up quickly, he is most at risk of losing his job, regardless of his CV or past trophy haul.
- Pogba. He is clearly a leader and perhaps our best player. He does seem to play every once in a while like he doesn’t care, but a motivated Paul Pogba is one of the best players in the world. Given that Raiola is his agent, I don’t see him hanging around too long if we don’t kick things up a new tch or too. Paul wants to compete for yhe highest honors, and he won’t hang around too much longer if we continue to be “in transition”. He may get to a point where he wants or demands to leave. The club meed to do everything possible to retain Pogba. Give him a new contract, pay him ton$ of cash.