Such a strange case. He really did have the potential to be a top right back. I don't agree with the way he is being treated this season but that's 3 managers in a row now who haven't believed in him. There clearly is something not right with him.
Never understood this argument. We've had 3 managers in 3 years who all had their own problems, but it's some unspoken problem with Montoya that's the issue?
He was too raw with Tito. A 20 year old doesn't realistically have a snowball's chance in hell of replacing Alves, especially when Alves was actually good every now and then under Tito. This is also taking into consideration that he'd rather use Song and Adriano at CB than Bartra, and played Alexis over Tello even when Tello had more goals than Alexis (Who had 0) and was consistently putting up better performances prior to Messi's injury.
Tata had a mass youth exodus, despite his claims of the opposite at the start of the season. You could say Tata had no faith in him, but I can say he gave youth players 72 minutes the entire season, and with Montoya barely being any more than a youth player, he had no chance. It's also worth noting that, despite Tata's anti-youth mentality, Montoya still got to play. Lucho flat out refusing to even let Montoya step out on the pitch indicates there is far more problems between them than just not having faith in him. Nobody can realistically say they think Lucho has faith in Douglas, but lo and behold, who got the start against Huesca, and who ended up being the worst player on the pitch?
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