PokerBlade
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“Not convinced its the best move for him. Sat on the bench for them half the games in the Championship and now they are in PL so I imagine he wont be starting more this season. Would have preferred if we loaned him somewhere else. He wasn’t even on the pitch for 50% of their season which is not exactly what I hope for when loaning out our young players. This must be one of the worst possible loan destinations, in my opinion."
Maybe it looks this way if you didn't pay attention to us last season, but if I were a manager thinking about loaning a player to Sheffield United I'd see the way we handled McAtee as a huge plus. We were very careful about bedding him in and protecting him even when we were stretched by injuries and could've been selfish and pushed him. We didn't ask him to do any more than what he's good at. Getting reductive about it and saying he was only on the pitch 50% of the time is missing the point. The longer the season went on, the more minutes we were giving him, the better he was playing.
Maybe it looks this way if you didn't pay attention to us last season, but if I were a manager thinking about loaning a player to Sheffield United I'd see the way we handled McAtee as a huge plus. We were very careful about bedding him in and protecting him even when we were stretched by injuries and could've been selfish and pushed him. We didn't ask him to do any more than what he's good at. Getting reductive about it and saying he was only on the pitch 50% of the time is missing the point. The longer the season went on, the more minutes we were giving him, the better he was playing.