Lanzini mystery solved
Manu celebrated his 24th birthday yesterday and Slaven decided to let him travel home to be with his family for a couple of days.
The plan now is that the midfield ace – and a player the manager believes will become as influential as the disgraced Dimitri Payet – will travel to Dubai over the next couple of days and return to London with the rest of the squad.
Lanzini had given an interview in which he had said that he would like to return to Argentine outfit River Plate but that was obviously intended to mean at a much later stage of his career.
An insider told us: “He was allowed to fly back home to spend time with family and will rejoin the squad in Dubai before flying back to London. He is very settled and is a big part of our future.”