Clrnc wrote:
goon wrote:
To be honest Arteta's explanation is far simpler and easier to believe than most of the alternative and mostly baseless theories presented. Like someone said the other day, the main fuck up was screwing up the loan deal, and for all we know it was St Etienne who fucked up.
That explanation make sense but like what I said in Sept, I struggle to believe Saliba can be so bad in training he don't even make the bench behind all our dross. That is real real bad and out of depth.
I think you're missing the personal dimension. Transitioning into our team would have potentially been pretty stressful:
No parents
New country
New language
Teenager
COVID
Given all that, I think the club wanted to give him a bit of breathing space rather than dropping him into the first team where the expectation (as exemplified by this very thread) would have been very high. Whether you agree with that or not, I don't think it's an unreasonable view for the club to hold.
