If I were Saudi Sportswashing Machine I’d sell him too, have a massive reset and go again. We have been there and it worked when the recruitment was done right. Better to sell and buy early, as we have all found out selling the likes of Isak late late in the window and panic buying wissa doesn’t work … I won’t go into our previous scrambles as we are all too well aware.
I think you vastly underestimate the difference in appeal of us vs. Saudi Sportswashing Machine.
The reason players like Tonali and Bruno went to Saudi Sportswashing Machine in the first place was they thought it was the next City, that money would be splashed and success would follow. That theory is now dead in water and everyone wants out.
No player is going there anymore believing they are going to part of some real success.