Emi Martinez

[Dante Lavelli]

I was just thinking, maybe Monchi was stupid enough to do it, Then fucked up selling them leaving us with a bunch of unhappy players so he gets binned and we have a shit start to the season.

I think there’s truth there.  In an interview either Monchi or Viddy said at the end of each season they tell each player what their sales value is so the agents can look for a club, i.e. if the value is deemed realistic.

Feasible that they notified players they were essentially for sale but there wasn’t enough cash floating about to get the deals done.  There’s 3 or 4 players I can imagine being on that list and then the season starts and they’re expected to be busting their balls for a club that was trying to sell them moment ago.  It explains the slow start, especially if the window is still open.

[paul_e]

I was just thinking, maybe Monchi was stupid enough to do it, Then fucked up selling them leaving us with a bunch of unhappy players so he gets binned and we have a shit start to the season.

I think there’s truth there.  In an interview either Monchi or Viddy said at the end of each season they tell each player what their sales value is so the agents can look for a club, i.e. if the value is deemed realistic.

Feasible that they notified players they were essentially for sale but there wasn’t enough cash floating about to get the deals done.  There’s 3 or 4 players I can imagine being on that list and then the season starts and they’re expected to be busting their balls for a club that was trying to sell them moment ago.  It explains the slow start, especially if the window is still open.

I think we're in danger of over-thinking it a bit. I reckon it was mostly that the squad really liked JJ and Bailey (and Rashford and Asensio) and losing all of them ove rthe window just knocked the morale and it took a few to shake off. We were pretty good in pre-season remember so I don't think it was that the squad were a mess all summer and it carried into the season.