Siorac
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It's not about being fair at all though.Not that much and which midfield places are open? I agree he could have come off the bench more but Ole doesn't use subs in general anyway. Honestly I'm not sure why there's this fixation about being 'fair' when football at the highest level is so unfair. Ask DDG, committed to the club with a big contract, only to find out he was second to Hendo. You think we can play 2 goalkeepers or that they can come off the bench for playing time?
We are light in midfield in numbers - unless we consider Donny a midfielder who can play as part of the two. Ole, however, seems to consider him an emergency backup to Bruno, and even in that role he's quite possibly behind Lingard now that he's back.
- If Ole rates him so little, why did we sign him in the first place?
- If he was that much worse than expected, why didn't we sell him and get a midfielder in?
- If none of the above is true, why doesn't he ever seem to get a chance?
The whole thing doesn't really make sense and it seems like poor squad management. I repeat: if he's never going to be used as anything other than a number 10 in dead rubbers and League Cup games, then we should have sold him and used the money to bring in a central midfielder the manager is willing to use in... central midfield.