Dara Smith-Naughton

So there was an opportunity for them to finish third.

Bounce back from the Club World Cup, have a bit of confidence.

They signed relatively well.

I think Jair Pedro was a good signing.

Didn't they make peace?

didn't they make peace?

Yeah, they did.

And then still bat him.

They're like, oh, we gave him a two-game ban, then we made peace, and we kept the second game in the ban.

Is that not the bit where you go, well, he essentially apologised to us, and we might have been a bit lost in translation there, and yes, of course he wants to go to Real Madrid, because everybody wants to go to Real Madrid, that's fine, you just don't say it publicly.

And then they still left him after the second game.

I was like, that's...

Like, oh, iron fist, iron glove.

Like, that's not really how it's supposed to work.

We're aligned that we know we need to win games of football in the now.

But that doesn't go against what we're trying to do, which is give consistent success to this club.

Yeah, yeah.

Yeah?

Yeah, yeah.

I mean, they have spent an absolute obscene amount of money.