Clrnc wrote:
Other than Saliba's treatment which is so mindboggling, Guendouzi defending his teammate only to be banished is just fucking stupid. He is the kind of character that dies for the team and loyal to his teammates as shown at Marseille as well being their spiritual leader at just 22, to publicly shame him for that? Such an inept management.
Except I don't think he really was at the time of the incident at the end of the game.
IMO he and Maupay had been giving each other a serve all game and Maupay let him know who had the better of it & Guendouzi reacted. It is possible that there was an exchange about the Leno incident that may have triggered Guendouzi's physical response at that time, but I do not think of it as defending his team mate as being the primary motivation, as opposed to being the excuse needed to choke the little shit.
IMO if you are genuinely defending your team mate you primarily do so at the time of the incident and I remember being pissed off that no one really did get in the face of either Maupay or the ref or linesman to give them a serve and tell them the facts of life. IIRC the biggest reaction came from Leno as he was being taken off on the stretcher.
As for reacting after the game if that is your intent you wait until you are out of sight of the cameras etc and then you make it count.
Supposedly the reason he was sent on loan was that he subsequently refused to accept any wrongdoing and would not apologise to anyone, which for me is exactly the same behaviour and denial we see from Xhaka in regards to the CPalace incident.
EDIT - The other thing being IIRC he had similar issues with the management and coaches at both Hertha and when he initially went to OM?
