"At 19, why have they sold him? Personally, slight alarm bell going off in my head. Juventus are arguably the biggest club in Italy, wealthiest club in Italy. Given that they've got an older strike force, you're selling a 19 year old who won't be hurting you wage-wise.
They've not got £100m plus for him, I think there could be other issues there. I don't know if Juve have a buy-back clause, if they don't then that will tell you they're happy to see him out the door. At 19?
It doesn't make any common sense if you're Juventus! It's as if it's like 'Go on, we don't care how good he's going to be, you can take him!'.
Which would suggest his off the field activities aren't the best. It's a bit like Adebayor here, he was 25 and just about to enter his best years and Wenger sold him to City. Right away, you're thinking 'he's not selling him because he's not a very good Footballer'. It's because there's something not quite right with him.
And that's how it turned out to be, because Adebayor was a boy who had all the talent you could ever wish for but just didn't do it"
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That is word for word what he said and I don't think that's racist in the slightest. I think part of it is a veiled compliment too.
Players move clubs for all sorts of reasons beyond just their Football ability. Ferguson was known for doing his homework on a players home life, their interests outside of Football and their general mentality as all of this has a bearing on their chances of adapting quickly to the team. Part of the reason Ferguson let Ravel Morrison and Pogba go was because of their off-pitch behaviour. Which doesn't necessarily imply that they have / had 'bad attitudes' or are 'unprofessional'. City paid an extraordinarily low fee (£14m) for a Spain international, Jesus Navas, because he'd been known to suffer from homesickness and the chances of him adapting to England long term were questionable.
The comparison with Adebayor is about a clearly talented Footballer approaching his peak being sold by a top CL club, surprisingly to a team that had just finished 10th (City). As I said before and as a couple of others on here have alluded to as well, I think we were all surprised to have got Kean, and to have got him for such a low fee with no buy-back was incredible. We're hailing it as miraculous from Brands, but the counter argument to why the price was so low for such an obviously talented player is that it's influenced by something non-football related.
That's quite a short leap to make and, again, I don't think it's a racist one to make either. Nobody has used the words 'bad attitude' or 'unprofessional' other than some fan account on Twitter trying to stir the pot.
