Many Newcastle United fans have discussed on Twitter whether or not they should have let Kevin Mbabu leave the club.
The Swiss defender, who now plays for Wolfsburg, left the club in July 2017 for a fee of just over £100k as he joined Young Boys, according to Transfermarkt.
The same website claims he was sold just two years later to the German side for nearly £8.3m, showing that the Magpies must have missed out on some unearthed potential and value.
While it is not uncommon to see a youngster leave a big club and flourish in a lower league, there are still a group of fans who think they were foolish to sell him, as well as others who simply think he wasn’t cut out for it.
Would you give Mbabu a second chance at St. James' Park?
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According to the Twitter page @NewcastleFansTV, the player recently discussed how much enjoyed his life when he was living in on Tyneside. As you can read from the tweet below, he discusses how young players need to be careful with so many distractions, but he calls it a “great city”, with a “huge fanbase” and even stated he would want to come back and visit the club again.
Here is what some fans had to say about his words…
https://twitter.com/Shawszynufc17/status/1237854728836362241?s=20
Genuinely gutted we let him go. Never forget that game against Chelsea, turned into prime Marcelo
— Adam Campbell (@AdamCam70223591) March 11, 2020
Quality player, never should’ve let him go.
— Will Hedley🌐 (@WillHedley2) March 11, 2020
Another stupid sale by rafa..
— YoungY (@myoungy2805) March 12, 2020
Kid was in Perdu all the time. He never would have made it staying here
— Dean (@DeanT93) March 12, 2020
The lad was homesick, sometimes you do what’s right for the player
— David Peel (@David_Peel) March 12, 2020
It’s always a bit frustrating when you see a player you used to have flourishing in environments outside of yours, and it even makes it a bit trickier when they say lovely things as you think, ‘what could have been?’.
Nevertheless, these things are part and parcel of football. When a player isn’t doing enough to get picked for whatever reason they move.
Maybe he will return one day.