what the hell does natural winger mean anyway. Mandzukic was one of our best players on the left wing for us, it does not matter if he was 'born' to play that role.
Ofcourse it does.
Mario was great as a team player,he was amazing goind back and covering on the defensive side,and made alot of dirty work.
BUT,this is NOT what you want from your winger.
What you want is him to be a consistent headache for opponents full back,to have the pace and dribbling ability to beat them one on ones,cross,cut inside,assist alot,contribute,and score goals ofcourse.
So yeah,Mario was all around great hard worker,did he contribute like a natural winger with pace,dribble and creativity would?no he didn't.
because IT'S NOT HIS JOB.
So imo we better let Mario to be LW only if we rotating/resting others.
But his best position would be in the box finishing those balls from Berna-Dybala-Costa
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welp almost nothing can ease the pain of losing schick. Definitely not Bernadeschi.
Horrible Mercato.
Pain?wow.......