Claudius wrote:
goon wrote:
This is true in the sense that it was a god awful decision to loan him to West Brom. But the main reason his development stagnated with us was due to bad injuries.
Point is though he’s always looked like developing into a top winger, so I don’t buy that he wouldn’t have continued his development with us.
We would’ve killed his development. You just have to look at Walcott, Ramsey et al to see that during the 2010s we were atrocious at developing players. So he is better off at Bayern. It’s still annoying that we let him go though and Bayern stole him for a fistful of dollars and nothing more
You can’t compare Walcott and Gnabry as talents. Ramsey again broke his leg, came back, had a season where he was arguably the best midfielder in the league and then went back to struggling with injuries and his pace in the side.
Jack’s development was fine until injuries got in the way.
It’s the lesser players that Clrnc mentioned that probably suffered, the ones who couldn’t get game time due to a stuffy squad. Jeff is another good example. Gnabry is another level though and I’ve always thought so.
Whether he would have been as good? Who knows. Sancho probs would have been half the player if he stayed at City, but they’d both have still been great.
