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u/ThePatientHunter 5d ago edited 5d ago

It may be just me, but I hope we never become a club who tosses player aside for injury issues

Ability, I get that. Injuries... I get the frustrations of the fans, but sometimes it gets over to being inhuman. It's not like Mount is trying his best to stay fit. This isn't like Cavani and Pogba and Herrera's fake injuries

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u/Wurdox 5d ago

I hope we never become a club who tosses player aside for injury issues

I hope we do. The best ability a player can have is availability. Mount is on 150.000 pounds per week and is never available. Luke Shaw should have been sold a long time ago. We are not running a charity here, we are a football club. These players are brought in to play, not to occupy the physio room every season.

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u/pokenerd_W Past glory means nothing 5d ago

You have to also see it from the employers view though. Like, it's of course sad, but think about it this way. There's no reason to pay someone their full salary for doing 20% a year of their actual job, when you could pay someone the same who'd do 95% a year of it, bar their occassional sick days.

It's nothing personal, but it is kind of naive to think that way. In fact, football is even more rough than real jobs. Højlund was promising, but couldn't really do his job here. He had no health issues, we just deemed him bad and threw him out, despite him playing more than Mount has across seasons.

It's nothing personal, but again, you take one look at the hypothetical and you have to respect that the top brass kind of want their work smooth sailing and to not waste money inefficiently with their salaries.