His contract was coming up this summer, none of this was necessary if we had any form of advanced planning. We dug our own hole and our inability to sell just adds salt to the wound. Besides, ive stated numerous times before for a year and a half now, that his time for sale was last summer, we were always gonna have trouble offloading him after an injury ridden season like this one.
As for Matuidi, put yourslef in his shoes. EURO coming up, you play a important role for France. You pick sitting a season in the stands over playing and earning a place in the squad? Cuz hes not gonna risk such scenario happening. Which means, we arent as eager to sell as we should be, or to say it better, we didnt make it clear enough for him what his "role" would be if he chooses to stay. Or is it because hes a Raiola player, and we are so deep inside his ass that we are incapable of freezing out one of his players? Both cases are clearly on us, and we need to dig ourselves out here