Blocking the sale was the right decision? It was the wrong decision because we didn't have the renewal signed. At that point when PSG made that offer we should have sold, no matter what mistakes have been made earlier.
The decision to block the sale was made by Zhang btw.
Yes, the "he" part is about Zhang.
As for selling Skriniar for 55m, I don't care how many years he had left in his contract, it'd be a bad deal. Just because Marotta managed to alienate yet another of our star players doesn't mean that not selling him was wrong.
If anything, the main problem here is Marotta mishandling our players.
He diminished whatever value Nainggolan had, he purged Icardi (at least we got something for him, even if it was a discount of what we could have gotten if he wasn't mishandled), he lost Perisic. Twice, sort of. He almost lost Brozovic. He's losing Skriniar. His bad handling turned De Vrij into a cone. He shopped Bastoni, Barella and Lautaro around for roughly 2 seasons.
How can I not point out the fact that Marotta has a tendency to fuck things up when it comes to our main players?
If this were under a previous regime, we'd be looking to find ways to get rid of Dumfries, Correa, Gosens, Gagliardini and whomever else we deemed unnecessary, and at the same time not lose more key players after that Hakimi sale. But instead we have a firesale that downgrades us. You can blame Zhang, surely, but the executive here is Marotta. People forget that.
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