Liam Rosenior is starting to notice a trend with Alejandro Garnacho that Man Utd fans always expected, but he has completely missed the point behind it.
Alejandro Garnacho’s time at Chelsea is showing no signs of a resurgence, as the Argentinian’s worst-case scenario is coming true.
Not only has he become a fringe player, but he’s done so at a club that is lower in the league table than Man Utd are right now.
Despite being largely harmless to the opposition now, he continues to get booed by every away fan following, and head coach Liam Rosenior has noticed that, but missed the point behind it.
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Liam Rosenior notices Alejandro Garnacho’s booing trend
Garnacho has never been a popular player in neutral footballing circles but this season it has ramped up to another level.
Generally, a player like Bruno Fernandes gets booed by the away fans because they know what he can do when he turns it on.
Garnacho, on the other hand, is barely a threat these days but is still targeted by every away fan following, which Rosenior accepted in a recent press conference.
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However, in the interest of protecting his player, he served up a pretty tone-deaf theory as to why that is happening.
He said: “I don’t understand why away fans always boo Garnacho. I don’t understand why that happens. Maybe it’s because he can be such a threat.”
For context, Rosenior’s theory behind Garnacho getting booed can be disproven by a single piece of stat – one goal and three assists in 17 league games.
For starters, if he was such a threat, then Rosenior would have played him a lot more than 33 minutes in the last four league games.
Of those four games, he didn’t come off the bench at all against Burnley and Leeds United, both games in which Chelsea drew.
Clearly, he wasn’t trusted enough to provide an attacking spark off the bench against those teams, so Rosenior completely misses the point about why he’s getting booed.
Man Utd fans expected this to happen to Garnacho
Looking at Garnacho’s overall season, it’s no surprise that he’s become a fringe player, and it’s something that Man Utd fans expected.
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The manner in which he left Old Trafford left a sour taste in the mouth of everyone, which is also perhaps why he’s an unpopular figure in neutral circles.
However, beyond that subjective sentiment, there were a lot of baffled faces at his choice of joining Chelsea when he was inviting interest from the likes of Bayern Munich.
For some reason, he wanted to stay in the Premier League, even if it meant joining a club that is perennially in upheaval and under rebuild.
He’s become a victim of the same rebuild that first saw him Chelsea, and his reputation has taken a hit at the same time.
It was all very avoidable…
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