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.
Brighton were reportedly interested in McAtee before they signed Fati.
I know there was talk of Palmer going there on loan but McAtee would get little playing time with Brighton.
There is a very good player in there and clubs want him as they know he has huge potential. I reckon that had he stayed he’d already have been on the park in recent games, including the Champions League game, but we’ll never know. I hope things turn around for him there, but if things get worse for the Blades, which they well might, then I hope we act and find him something else in the window. I had hoped he’d come over to play for AZ Alkmaar but hey ho.
He enjoyed his time there last year, so I can see it too. I don't think he'd have got much game time there personally, Palmer would have got more, and more than he'll get at (relegation threatened) chelsea ;-)
You're dead right. Huge potential and seems to glide over the pitch. Excellent close control.
MOTD showed a good run and cross from him before Newcastle started on their goal binge. Not sure that it is worth trying to judge him on the remainder of the game as Sheffield seemed shell-shocked.
I'm guessing no one at City saw the 3 promoted teams doing so badly at the start of this season.
This post made me pull up Peacock to watch the first 30 mins of the replay. [BTW, I might be the only one in the entire USA with a rooting interest in Sheffield United to click that replay button, lolz] JM helped create 2 solid chances at the back post in the first 15 minutes. JM was fine until I turned it off down 0-2. Kinda disappointed in Vini Souza's performance tho - looked too plodding for the prem.
