Genuinely concerning, i for sure don't think he is the best of best players in the team but he is fun enough and thought he would get more chances, curious to watch him play more games, maybe a consistent min 65 - 70 sub in but he doesn't even get that, not even vs weaker teams that are almost guaranteed wins, surely he isn't so bad as to we start losing the moment he gets in right?
It has been really interesting to see him not even start vs AEK Athens and foden playing in his position instead, bro's not even thought of as third option even.
I know people will use justifications and arguments like:
- This is for the team and it's okay for some players to be a third choice we need them
- " player needs to prove himself in order to start more " Except when a player is given like 15 mins of playtime as a chance in 4 games, given the performance anxiety he'll be having, any sort of mistake or playing slightly bad is going to backfire 10 times as worse, and also being subbed on when the team is 5-1 all tired and they stopped giving a shit so even if you tried to play well and you're fresh from the bench the other players would not be in line. You can see that in this match he was extremely demotivated.
Ait-Nouri has previously stated that he really loves city and is proud to join and excited, he went from being a regular with Wolves to a semi sub with Pep to a non-existant player rotten in the bench with Maresca