Craig Burley

A manager can easily be undermined by, particularly in this day and age, when every manager's words are amplified across every newspaper and social media.

So players see everything.

Nothing goes unheard of.

And I've just felt that this kind of rhetoric, you know I said this to you after this very first interview.

I said, this is not going to have long legs.

It's not.

I could just sense by the way it was, and it's actually got worse.

He's doubled down on the initial interviews, and it's actually falling off a cliff.

It's just ludicrous.

And when you get to that stage, and when you're at that stage with your players, and I don't know if he is, but it looks like it, it's very difficult to get them back onside.

Once they go to the other side, it's very difficult then to drag them back, because they've already made their mind up.

And once the dressing room makes its mind up, it's very, very difficult to change that.

Frank?

Chelsea are the Manchester United of the South at the moment, aren't they?

They're stumbling around.

They don't know.

Man United still are unsure.

I mean, Michael Carrick at the moment is in the box seat.

But who the hell knows what way they're going to go?

And they've stumbled around for several years now.