I mean that's just ridiculous. You are speaking like Dom is Messi and undroppable. Dom stunk when the league restarted in the summer yet wasn't dropped till the last game. A game in which Kean scored, in fact he has scored every time he has started.
We simply didn't play to his strengths last season, lumping balls to him like he plays the same way as Dom.
Truth is we have treated a young lad shockingly from start to inevitable departure, from Dunc's appalling treatment at United to him being dropped after having a great game against Newcastle.
You say that as if Dom was the only one not quite firing on all cylinders, most of the team weren't.
To the bolded bit... I refer back to where i literally put in agreement with another poster
"Not the right fit" was the best way of putting it. I can't say I ever agree with subbing a sub, particular so soon like that, but ultimately Ferguson asked him to go and run around with fresh legs, and he barely moved. His attitude has been pretty poor, breaking lockdown rules to have girls round and have a party, then snapchatting it (no, the whole "hes not english doesn't wash here). He hasn't helped himself at all. He has visibly sulked on the pitch.
Scored every game he started? Not quite true. Started 6, scored twice (a tap in v Bournemouth in a dead rubber against an awful defence, and the newcastle one where his touch was poor as was the goalkeeping, they still count ofcourse) last season according to the stats I've looked up. 1 in 3 by that logic. Which isn't the worst. As I said, it's not that I dont think he has talent, but in this season, with Richarlison's ability, James Ability and Dom's lethal edge he would not have had huge amount of time to start anyway. The best thing for him was to go on loan and get goals, playing with better players. Who knows maybe he would come back from PSG, not be sold and be much better, with a better attitude, confident. The lad clearly did not want to be here though and if we get a good offer to make profit, moving him out of our league, creating a relationship with a club who may be able to provide a player or two over the next few years AND being able to re-invest the money on someone who is READY to help us compete higher up in the league, then we should take it.
I'm all for having these young prospects getting time on the pitch, being given time overall, developing (DCL is a huge advertisement for it and I was his biggest critic), but we also need players who are good enough now. Like the hype over Anthony Gordon, he looks like he has something about him but in games he's been "okay", not too influential, so if we can give him some time great but the focus while we are flying high needs to be on providing output and delivering results.
If we sold Kean tomorrow for £30-35m, I think that would be good business for an asset who isn't quite with us and we would have assumed to make a loss on.
If we keep Kean and try to bed him in next year a better player, I'm fine with that as well. I'm just not too bothered about keeping him as there are too many question marks on football and non-football issues. He is only young and young people make mistakes, I've made many in my life at 19, i still make them at 29 so maybe he will mature and grow as a person as well at PSG.
We will see. As another poster put, not the right fit is absolutely the best way of putting it, maybe the shape will change in a year.
