Can’t blame the coach though for his comments. Can’t fault a manager for expecting effort as a bare minimum, regardless of level, wage or reputation. In Lingard and other high-profile player’s cases, to earn hundreds of thousands of quid a week and be overweight is the height of...
Definitely would not do a job. Hard to tell what’s happened to Lingard, whether it’s the young English starlet who suddenly became a multi-millionaire and completely lost focus and interest in the game (David Bentley, Jack Rodwell) - or whether he simply wasn’t that good to begin with (Francis...