Well, he’s just getting a head start on taking orders from our future manager, mate—makes sense to start early, right?
But jokes aside, you’re spot on. If he’d shown this kind of pragmatism earlier, we might be sitting here with a few more draws or even a win or two, and the conversation about his future would feel a lot less grim.
That said, it’s all hypothetical—maybe things would’ve gone the exact same way regardless. Hard to say for sure.
What I do know, though, is that we probably wouldn’t be dealing with half the injuries we’ve got right now, which for me is the biggest issue when we are talking about his persistence with his style of play.