Literally every player that gets transferred to United eventually starts to underperform and fall off a cliff compared to their past performances and the conversation always ends up being how United has overpaid for said player or how they weren’t cut out for premier league or how they’re too old now but very rarely do people bring up how United might just be a graveyard for talent and the systemic issues at the club make the players worse instead of the other way around. It happened with Maguire, Sancho and Anthony. Now Casemiro and Varane are in talks of being possibly sold and the conversation around that is again revolving around how Real scammed United and that they’re falling off because of their ages (Varane is literally still 30 and Casemiro is 31). I’m willing to bet that if Doku had moved to United instead of City, he would’ve also had an incredibly difficult time and people would be laughing at United saying how they got rinsed paying 70 million for a talent that performed well in Ligue 1 for a single season. I think we should really stop judging players too harshly based on their performances under this United side.
I would honestly be even less interested than Sancho if I was his age with those wages. Can’t blame him
People don’t understand the mentality of footballers at all,these guys have basically gave up their childhood and teen years to reach the top,doing 10k runs while their mates were out drinking chasing girls,he won’t want to be sitting not playing and collecting wages for doing nothing it’ll be killing him,footballers are ultra competitive.
Exactly! He still has a more privileged life than your average bloke but his ultra competitive nature is what got him to that privileged position in the first place and I’m sure he beats himself up a lot over how the last year has panned out for him despite being among the highest earners of premier league.