David Cartlidge

But my word, what a mess and what a state to see your club, especially when you go... I always think of Chelsea, Mourinho comes in, they change the entire identity of that club of being a laughter.

to being winners.

Yeah.

Consistent, strong team.

Exactly.

They were an absolute joke.

Other London clubs laughed at them.

And then Mourinho changed that entire identity.

And then they're willingly now throwing that away to become this London-based version of Brighton.

With no disrespect to Brighton, by the way, but it's that sort of model that they're operating in.

Yeah, yeah.

Yeah, exactly.

No.

I think the chances are that it creates more toxicity increase.

Because if Slott stays there and Xabi Alonso, by hook or by crook, stays on the job market, he is constantly going to be there and everybody's going to be going, but Xabi is there, but Xabi is there.

You can't complain, Xabi is there.

And that's all they're going to be like all the time.

Have you seen enough from Alonso to think that he would be able to make an impact in the Premier League?

100%.

Completely forget everything that happened at Real Madrid.