There's been plenty of talk of him being a bit of a dickhead behind the scenes, which is a large part of why his return to Hajduk Split lasted barely a few weeks, so I can see why Ange would not be keen to have him around A shame, him coming off the bench to aim crosses to Richy was a viable Plan B last season
When Conte signed him, my hope was that he would be guaranteed CL starting XI, and used sparingly in the PL, playing the position where he fits best. *** Did not happen. Under Conte or Ange. *** This was also my rationale for wanting to sign Bale during summer 2022.
He played LWB for Inter the previous season or two, I think the problem for us was that our CBs were often so unreliable that we ended up expecting both our WBs to do more defending than they would’ve liked and it’s fair to say Perisic couldn’t defend for ****. Still glad to say I got to see him in our shirt though, he’d been one of my favourite non-Spurs players for the best part of a decade… as some might have realised
