IMO Too many posters in here are fondly remembering the future potential he was showing with us and forgetting that the actual magic moments (as excruciatingly beautiful as they were to see at the time) were too few and too far between.
In truth he spent far too many games being disinterested, not being arsed, moaning like fuck if anyone expected him to have to run on to a pass and thinking he was too good to have to press or get back and defend. . . and his development flatlined after City.
Pay a fortune to bring his scowling mush back here so that we can watch him fade out of games with his bottom lip stuck out again? Nah, he made his own bed so let him lie in it.
There are good players out there who act professionally, see themselves as being part of a collective, take pride in their work ethic, actually put a good shift in every game and knuckle down and work hard to improve.
Players who don’t have these qualities aren’t worth looking at and Sane doesn’t.