Tugay One Cup
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Sane was replaced TWO years ago when we signed Mahrez.
City were not convinced about Sane,concerned about his attitude & personality and anticipated future issues over playing time,development and contract.
Mahrez was signed to cover these issues on the basis of ‘do things when you can, not when you must’.
Mahrez & Sterling have been our first choice scoring wingers for most of the last two years not just since Sane was injured !!
The money we’ve got for Sane means that Mahrez stands us in at around £12M.
Good business City.
So we essentially replaced our only left winger with a third right winger?
Call me crazy but I'd take a Sane/ Sterling partnership over a Sterling/ Mahrez one any day of the week.
The latter is slower, more predictable and has little to no threat on the counter attack because they both just want to cut inside and run into defenders.