It is quite telling that the only offers we received for Theo is from Como, Atletico Madrid, and Al Hilal. Como had an offer in the winter, but Theo declined this, he thought he is above this level. Now in the summer, Como didn't enter the race back.
The Atletico rumours I think were mostly a work done by Theo's agent. Theo is Atletico homegrown, so for them, he is more valuable than to any other teams, due to squad lists. Even with all this, they didn't bid 1 penny over 20 mil. The other offer is Saudi.
Last year, Theo had interest from Bayern and Real. From top teams. With the Davies renewal, it makes sense why Bayern withdrew. But what about Real? Their starting left-back last season was Fran Garcia, and now they are actively searching for a new starter. But when questions were asked, they completely denied and rejected any links to Theo. Why? What happened?
Theo is a rotten apple, and Real knows this. They don't want someone like him in their locker room. And this is how we should do it as well. Getting rid of the cancerous element from our squad.
Theo was never a smart player. He was always a monster, a physycal machine, with top tier workrate, running up and down the field. He ran his ass off tirelessly in every game. But what happens when this disappers? You get Theo from last year. His first touch, crossing, tackling, shooting is not even a slightly worse than in the form of his life. But he just doesn't put any effort on the pitch now. He is seemingly disinterested. He is an arrogant player, who thinks he is above Milan. He feels like he did us a favour when he accepted our 4mil net salary contract extension. And with his completely wrong head, he will never return to his top form.
The question is if we have 30 mil, who is better than Theo? Honestly? Even most Serie A leftbacks would overperform him. 7 goal contributions is fine, but lets see the other side of the coin: how many points we lost due to him? On top of my head, I can count the following games: Parma, Fiorentina, Cagliari, Bologna, Lazio, Feyenoord.
I think a defensive left-back would have given us more points last season, than the offensive superstar Theo. We really needed his offensive contributions in the Venezia (4-0, 1 goal), Udinese (4-0, 1 goal), Lecce (3-0, 1 goal 1 assist) games.
Basicly the only game Theo won us with his offensive talent was that 2-1 comeback win versus Como. I would trade that win any time with a left back, who is solid defensively, and we don't loose 14 points in Serie A, and our CL campaign because of him. Loosing 14 points in a season because of 1 player is an achievement in itself.
It is not easy to pick in Serie A, because most teams play 3 atb. But from teams in top10, who are playing with a proper leftback, there are Oliveira, Tavares, Juan MIranda, Cambiasso, and Alberto Moreno outside of Theo. Seriously I would exchange Theo with any of them, except for Moreno.
