McGill enabled the free pass for Sanchez to go out for his haircuts and tapas in town, whilst at that very moment, a few miles away, his team mates were battling to beat Man Utd at the Amex.
Seems legit. Made for some nice Instagram selfies didn't it, I suppose.
You know - you're right. Whats the POINT of having a goalkeeper on the bench ?
Next time our keeper gets a red, or goes off with a hammy, lets just stick Mitoma in goal.
I just cannot relate to anything you are saying over this, its frankly bizarre. You are advocating a player being dropped from the team having the right to withdraw his labour and go on strike.
I think we're done here.
Why do you keep extrapolating this into other irrelevant situations ? Cup of tea, wtf ?? As @Thunderbolt said, you are splitting hairs and juggling with semantics. Here are the facts.
1. Sanchez is a professional footballer who is paid (handsomely) to be a part of our squad.
2. He lost his...
Whats batshit, mate, is trying to justify a professional, highly paid footballer downing tools because he's been dropped. I couldn't give a flying f*ck at a rolling donut if he felt his skills "weren't being valued" by the new manager. Get on board, work on it, improve, or piss off. Thats what...
Violated ? No, strange word to use. Just annoyed and disappointed that a very talented keeper who had been here a long time and contributed a lot, chose to hit the dickhead button at the first sign of a little adversity in his career. I thought he was better than that. But I've been wrong before.
And ?
These tactics got us to 6th place, into Europe, and within a (typically) Solly'd skypen of making the FA Cup Final. Our defenders bought into it, Sanchez didn't. Or couldn't. Or at least he didn't do enough on the training ground to show he could be a part of it, so jacked it in.
And yet...
So he wasn't up to it, didn't feel like he could ever learn it, got narked at being left out as a result and so decided to down tools. Potentially leaving his team mates in the lurch.
Class.
I'm not sure what your source is for RDZ basically telling Sanchez "you're never playing for me again" at that point after the Everton debacle. And yes we shipped 5, but since when does that ALL get put down to the keeper ? We were collectively off it that day as a team, you can't just point at...
I don't think anyone is disputing that he's a good keeper - its his stinking attitude that was the issue. I'd have been very happy going into this season with Sanchez and Steele vying for the No1 shirt, but unfortunately Sanchez felt that fighting for the shirt here was now somewhat beneath him...
If you can't adapt your game, then tough shit. Other players at the back have adapted to RDZ's style and flourished under it. Its not like Sanchez was being asked to play at fullback is it - he's still ultimately there to be a shotstopper, but in the modern game its essential that goalkeepers...
Sanchez and his pathetic, gigantic, bench-kryptonite ego has been the one and only sour note of what has been by far the greatest season in our 122 year history.
Despite a few rickets, I really liked him as a keeper. Commanding, imposing, brave. But he can take his rancid stinking attitude...
That was an odd one, but as mentioned, definitely 100% agent-driven. And look how the fella knuckled down for the rest of the season. Bares no comparison to Sulky Sanchez whatsoever.
I meant the team didn't suffer after Trossards departure, we didn't particularly miss him. Neither Sanchez. But yes, I'd agree with your point that these fall-outs would be better handled in-house rather than airing all our dirty linen in public. Makes for a good press conference though dunnit.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but the only other sulkster under RDZ was Trossard. Who I was genuinely sad to see leave, but it suited both parties and we didn't suffer for it (because we had an absolute ready-made superstar to take his place).
Everything I heard this season was how the players love...
No. Losing Mac is sad news. Dirty Sanchez can DO one as far as I'm concerned. I have no time for anyone who downs tools, especially in this season of all seasons. He's acted like an absolute prick, and the sooner he slings his entitled hook, the better. He played in an FA Cup SF ffs.
But this...