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Keeping him was probably borderline impossible. RDZ probably did what he had to do in that regard. Feeding the scavenging hyenas that are the press with the whole debacle was less clever as it put the club in a really shit situation at the negotiation table, but in the end it turned out great...

Didn't expect him to become a starter for them but that is indeed what happened. Turning out to be a real bargain for Arse.

I don't think Trossard has been lazy generally speaking, not even when he is bad - more a case of not reading the pitch well enough to find spaces to abuse. If you look at someone like Lionel Messi, he will read the positioning and movements of his opponents for the first few minutes and then...

D) Show off the massive Graham Potter tattoo he has on his chest

On his current form, Arsenal should get a modest fee and Brighton should keep paying half his wages.

If a former Sassuolo player would come, I think Jeremie Boga is a better bet.

Ok fee and Arsenal get a decent squad player. Trossard himself is the big winner though.

Clear evidence that he is just pretending to speak French but you can't notice the difference. You're living a lie.

Tbf that means that he with 99.9% certainty speaks French as well (unlike the Walloon blokes who rarely bothers to learn Dutch).

It had a choice - to shut up and deal with it behind closed doors. Also, if the timeline tells a story, if anything it is the opposite: Trossard had little choice but to rebuff what RDZ was saying in his press conferences and instead put his own side of the story out there. There was not a sound...

Shit happens... not everyone gets along with everybody. Perhaps Trossard would fall out with GP as well given the circumstances, perhaps he wouldn't. Perhaps RDZ would be best buddies with Mat Ryan, Florin Andone or Ali Jahanbaksh that didn't like GP, or perhaps not. No big deal. Bringing up...

Atletico Madrid and Barcelona fighting about whether Depay should move to the former for £3m or £5m really says all you need to know about the football finances in Europe right now. Would be much preferable if there was a chance to ship him abroad rather than to a competitor, but struggle to...

Well, it is probably technically true in a lot of cases - but nothing stopping clubs from speaking with the agencies, just the player directly (though surely that happens as well). It is indeed the players market these days but for a 100 years it wasn't and that was equally bad. Slavelike...

No problem with the current manager but doesn't mean I have to agree with every single thing he says or does. Yes I do understand that some people right now would buy scent candles smelling like RDZs farts if they were available and that is entirely logical. But I look at the situations...

My bad in that case - I don't think it is a RDZ driven situation; I just think this Trossard driven situation could have been a lot better dealt with by everyone. If that is down to him or the club or both, I don't know, but it is obviously not optimal. It says itself that the value of a player...

Yup, I assume that is the case, and putting out some damage control tweet doesn't really change it. Simply because there's no reason putting it in public. Sure, people would have known about his absense but just put the "his toe hurts" or "personal issues, will be dealt with internally" or...

Maybe, or he would have talked to the player behind the scenes and they might have reached some sort of agreement. It is very hypothetical. Part of a learning process for RDZ I think. A lot of foreign coaches will gladly speak about internal issues etc. until they learn the hard way that the...

Not relevant how Potter would have dealt with it. Only relevant thing is how it has been dealt with now - which is suboptimal. Yes, the fans and the press loves it, but it does put the club in a difficult situation in terms of getting anywhere near max value out of a transfer.

Very small, if anything of what any of them say is correct. Judging from that, both Tross & RDZ appears to be more interested in pouring fuel on the fire rather than resolving it. Sounds like the whole situation could have been dealt with over a couple of beers and a good talk man-to-man but...

Very poor from Trossard and very poorly dealt with. No problem with letting a player who isn't professional in training sessions train on his own. That doesn't mean Roberto De Zerbi needs to sit at a press conference and burn £15-20m in front of the journalists. Should have been dealt with...