The flip side to that is that he's surrounded by inferior players at Sheffield United so may feel a need to go it alone; Grealish exhibited a similar tendency at Aston Villa. Not saying McAtee's future is with us, just that good players can adapt their game to fit our system.
I was more talking about watching him playing at City, I haven't actually watched him at Sheff United.
Fair enough. I think we could have accommodated him but it’s probably too late now.
As a club, yes probably, I like him as a player, but what I like and what Pep wants are probably worlds apart, so I can see why he was allowed out on loan, it remains to be seen if he'll ever play here again, and I don't think this loan is going to help that much.
If Guardiola was going to accommodate him, then I think he would have had to have started on the wing and done his learning from there. However, he probably saw Palmer was ahead of him in that regard and the arrival of Doku would have been another warning sign. I can understand his wanting to return to Sheffield, but it’s just a great pity that we couldn’t have arranged something with Brighton.
Why would any of the top teams in the Premier league want McAtee.
