Conan

kind of like setting yourself up for the rest of your life.

But because he's found it so difficult on those low moves at the early part of his career, he'll know that his pathway and the opportunity to have one at a particular team is so important because on the back of playing regular football, his confidence has soared, his abilities, levels, because what it is, is when you're playing regularly, you take away that kind of like,

You're calm about the game.

You just think, well, I'm going to play most weeks.

I can show my quality.

But when you're coming in and out every three or four games, you're so desperate to do well that invariably you over-try, if that makes any type of sense.

But I just think he's in such a good position.

And I think that his advisor, I hope he's got really good ones that they do look beyond the money as such, because that should invariably come with his quality.

And you just want him to kind of think, well, listen, you want to now secure not just financially, but you're kind of the rest of your career at a time when you're in such a hot, he's such a hot ticket right now, isn't he?

increasingly hamer obviously is kind of taking a defensive first slant is there still a very acceptable way to have both them on the pitch oh yeah i think there is certainly in terms of that i'd love to see two center fours playing in a bank but we're with john o'shea in the week he was over um covering the arsenal game and he was saying that literally that the coaches and the manager ultimately just fingers crossed in terms of with every weekend that passes to see who is available

and it's all in a good formulating plans in terms of like you know what could potentially happen now they'll do their research on the opposition but it will literally be such a tight turnaround in that who is fit because we've obviously lost cullen to that bad injury you're probably going to lose others and then you've got to be ready to go then so it's so difficult now to say in an ideal world everyone's fit can they play together i think they can yeah yeah i genuinely do think they could

It's amazing, bearing in mind how strong they were in December.

They really looked like they were going through the gears.

People were playing well.

But the reality, Joe, is that that team was still susceptible to certain direct football.

I've said it to you before in terms of last year Guardiola saying that the footballer Iriola's playing at Bournemouth, where it's going from back to front, was going to ask questions of his centre-halves and his defenders.

They're brilliant when they're dictating play, if it's slow build-up from the opposition or they're sitting in.

But the Premier League has just gone and flipped completely to how we used to have it, where it's back to front early on.

And we saw how they were exposed against United.

But I think the lazy assumption is that it's because there was young lads in there.