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Alex Carter's avatar

Couple of observations - how sustainable is it for any manager to remain at a club where his opinions are being ignored by the club?

Secondly, yesterday's performance at the etihad was along the lines of the Chelsea DNA - fighting for every ball, blocking shots, winning duels. Everyone gets caught up in "high blocks" and possession based football but, the reality is, defences win titles

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Pimlico Tiger's avatar

I think that's a very generous interpretation of our squad building, Scorio.

I'm not sure there's a universe where some of these players can be considered a great fit for a high energy, high pressing passing side.

The squad has been constructed along financial lines not footballing lines. It's an investment portfolio to realise future ROI through sales and - best case - relatively low salaries for players that train on to be top tier players.

There's no footballing cohesion to it at all. So whilst I agree it hasn't been built for Poch I don't think this is phase one of a clever plan and I'm not sure there is a manager out there who is a great fit for the still-imbalanced squad that we have.

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