Ian Darke

It's a classic case of player power.

And those players know now that they're above the coach.

really and they can outlast the next coach who's appointed as well if they don't like him either so that's a huge problem compare that to where hansi flick has barcelona you know they're together as a unit they're a winning machine real madrid really are a bit of a mess there's a lot of talented players but to use the old cliche they look like characters without the plot a lot of the time when real madrid are winning as they have done

Absolutely.

I mean, look what he did.

An invincible season in the Bundesliga for a team that had never won that title before.

And it was phenomenal the tune he got out of that team with Florian Wirtz and Granit Xhaka, of course, running the midfield, Rempong.

You know, it was excellent.

So his body of work still stands.

Did he have a...

Fair chance at Real Madrid.

I think history will say he didn't really.

And the player power got rid of him after what?

Well, only five months, really, if the season starts in August.

I do think if he looks back on it, he probably thinks I could have done one or two things differently.

Craig and Shaka mentioning there that Valencia incident.

He chose, I think, not to make a drama out of a crisis with that.

And it was probably the wrong way to go.

He could have made a statement and said, you're out the team for a couple of games.

You can stew.