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Garth Crooks
Which is a fair point. The stat shouldn't be used in isolation. But I was using it to illustrate a wider point - his form fell off a cliff at that time and it never came back. Therefore, to blame Jose for his descent is unfair - the rot set in long before Jose joined the club.
Sorry, I am going to vigorously debate this.
Form is temporary, class is permanent, and the player had enough in the bank to warrant individual man-management rather than Mourinho's old school 'pick a weak one or two and rinse them.' It is actually disgraceful. This 'man-ager', a 'winner', allowed a gifted and tremendous asset to drift and rot on his watch because he is not a 'man manager' more than he has 'his way'? That's an asset which was valued at around 70-80 million only a season earlier BTW. Again, disgraceful.
Dele is responsible for himself, something he noted clearly, but Mourinho did not do his job and try to manage the situation when there was a chance to retrieve it. My hunch is he knew Dele was one of Poch's boys, and thought he'd teach him a lesson with tough love flimflam. That works with some, but it does not work universally.
Again mate, in the spirit of debate and discussion.