jones wrote:
Bosscielny wrote:
If he thought Saliba wasn’t ready, yes.
Then his judgment is so poor that he shouldn't be in charge. If him getting sent off for the reserves is the only thing he bases his judgment on he needs to step off.
Except that’s probably not the case, is it? Him getting sent off for the reserves is a throw away line made by a nobody on the internet. If you want to believe that the guys that spend the week training and talking to these players based the decision on one dodgy appearances with the kids, then i won’t stop you.
Personally i find it easier to imagine that he wasn’t registered for the EL, so PL games were his only chance to get game time. I think he saw a team that wasn’t scoring goals, and didn’t want to throw a 19 year old kid into that environment and expect him to be faultless. You see the reaction Runnarson got after he dropped the ball (literally) against City in a cup game no one was particularly concerned about?
Could Saliba have killed it? Yeah, absolutely. Could he have turned up, contributed to a bad result and been abused all over social media because some kids on twitter declared he was the second coming of jesus? That’s possible too.
I don’t agree with it, and didn’t at the time. But no one knows what goes into these decisions. Him not playing Saliba for a game or two in November isn’t the reason we finished 8th, and, until it happens, i also don’t think it’ll lead Saliba to forcing himself out of the club. I just don’t see it being something worth losing sleep over almost a year later.
