Tony Mowbray has been chatting about the future of Amad Diallo. The on-loan Manchester United player is set to leave Sunderland at the end of the season, but obviously we’d love him to stay…
INTIMATE
"I don't really know Amad intimately to know what drives him. He loves football, he wants to play, so what do you do if you're at Manchester United? Are you happy just to be a Manchester United player and play six sub appearances and two starts over a season of 60 games, or do you want to go and play? So do they sell him? And if they do, they'll want to recruit their money which was reputedly €40m or whatever it was.”
UNLIKELY
"The reality is he won't be coming here unless they think he is going to be one hell of a player but he needs another year out, he enjoys Sunderland so he can go and keep playing for them. That would be the ideal scenario for us. Pretty unlikely but you never know. If they see him as someone they genuinely feel can play for their first team then they need to keep him on board.”
BIG MONEY
"I would suggest they'll try another level. You would think he'll go to the Premier League or go back to Italy. My gut feeling for Amad is if he doesn't stay at Manchester United he goes for big, big money to a top Spanish team really. If we do sneak into that scenario there's a much better chance he'd come back. He'd be playing against Premier League teams every game and he's in an environment where he's already settled and likes the environment he's in."
