blade67
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He's out of contract in the summer, so we aren't likely to see any fee. I'd be astonished if we tried to extend his contract given his ongoing unproffesional behaviour whilst hereIf this move becomes permanent I hope Lys finally grasps the idea that he'll have a short career, therefore he has to apply himself if he's not to waste his obvious talent.
Practically we need him to impress at the Italian club, it will help negotiate a reasonable transfer fee that we need desperately.
My memory of LM are of exceptional displays (too few I accept) judged against far too many lame displays where a desire to win and impose himself were conspicuous by their absence. I doubt he'll ever change, the trappings of professional football enabled LM to squander his talents whilst behaving like an overrated teenager who had no sense of what it takes to be successful in the professional game. The fact that Eddie Howe and Chris Wilder both chose to take a punt and sign the player indicated that they believed they could bring out the best in him, sadly both failed and Lys is about to take another, and possibly his final, chance at showing why he's someone who could perform when he felt like it.
The sad thing about this is that his failings are, so it seems, entirely self-imposed, so hardly any sympathy from yours truly about the plight he finds himself in.