Gabriele Marcotti

So what's more worrying for you, Gab?

Okay, now, here's the thing, all right?

If you're Nino Gattuso and kind of your whole persona as a manager is sort of like, you know, baby animal from Baby Muppets and he used to run around the pitch, he used to act crazy, and he used to be all about intensity and passion and drive, and yeah, you probably do believe that he's superstitious and he hears voices and so on.

It fits the character.

It's on brand.

Leroy Rossignor because of course that's the guy who respects the ball it's on brand for him too because you know he's got the little glasses he's educated he speaks in complete sentences he's got this sort of new age zen vibe I think the big difference between the two is that the new age zen manager in English football rarely works unless he gets the results

The manager who screamed, or the coach in any sport, who screams and shouts and is passionate and motivated, that's very easy for fans and, frankly, players to digest and to lap up.

So in that sense, I think Gattuso has an easier time, and I'd be a little bit more worried about Rossignol, even if he's being perfectly honest about communing with the ball, respecting the ball, you know, whatever he likes to do with the ball.

Who would worry you more, Frank, as a Chelsea man?

Yeah, you know what?

Frank, I've known Reno Gattuso for way too many years.

I'm telling you, he is not BSing.

He really does hear the voices.

He really is like this.

He is not playing a character.

Look, whatever, but you know,

You could go on YouTube, find the press conference he gave when he was in Greece, when he started swearing in five different languages and mixing them all up.

I mean, this is who he is, for better or worse.

He has one great quality, which he's developed over the years, which is he knows his limits.

He's not going to try to be too clever.