Utterly stupid decision to let Mane go. Really came back to bite us..
We have been nothing this season. Bar a few decent results.. just utter nonsense throughout.
A legend of the club that had a year left on his contract asked to leave. Would've been very weird from the club to tell him to F**k off and miss out on the opportunity to cash in on him. Had Bayern come knocking and Mane never asked to leave it would be a different discussion, but the lad asked to leave.
Truth is our problems, this season, are first and foremost team ones and not individual ones. Apart from Alisson, everyone's standard just went down, we play like we are totally depleted of any energy and we have the mental frailness of a relegation side. So the reality is that with or without Mane this season would still look the same. The only difference would be that the moaners would now be moaning about keeping Sadio after he asked out since hindsight is always 20/20 (even when what you moan about is factually wrong) and by now they'd crying about us missing out on getting some money for Mane and him not being happy probably messed up the dressing room and is a distraction blah blah blah. Not even going to get into all the unbelievable crap we'd be hearing about him not being happy with Mo's new contract and all that good old soap opera imaginary bullshit people read on twitter and bring back here onto that forum.
All of this is just bullshit. We play like sh*t all over the pitch. We can't string 4 passes together and our players look like they are all missing a lung and half their brain. Once we sort ourselves as a team that's when we'll start winning, scoring and keeping clean sheets. And when this happens Jota, Nunez and Gakpo will score enough goals that Mane being allowed to leave won't even be a subject of discussion.
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