Ange Postecoglou

So even though Van der Veen was coming from the Bundesliga, it's a whole different level.

It takes some time to adjust physically.

Yeah.

I think you've seen it with guys like Vertz this year and others who are top players, unbelievable players, but it takes them a while.

So I think some of it was, like I said, they've gone from playing a different style of football, training differently, to what I was doing.

The thing is, if you look at those first 10 games, the difference was we had, I think we won quite a few games really late.

We had guys like Ivan Perisic, Holberg, Richarlison, Eric Dyke coming off the bench, like men.

And you need that, right?

So we covered that.

But once we kind of lost that, like I said, the second year, we got even more injuries and they were getting replaced by teenagers.

It's a curious one.

No, no.

Where's that?

Yeah, I mean, I think... So...

That decision, Conor, Romero was always going to play, right?

He sort of had a toe problem and that wasn't a muscular problem.

So he got over that.

So he was always going to play.

Mickey was due to come back the week after.

But then I think midweek we lost Ben Davies and Dragerson I think was already gone.