Jack Wilkinson

There is definitely work to do on that squad, especially in central midfield.

Pellegrini invested a lot of money and time in Jack Wilshere, but he just hasn't really been there, has he?

And there is a definite need for someone in there, which explains the Fernandes talk.

So, yeah, it'll be interesting to see what they do.

I think they definitely need to strengthen that squad for sure.

Yeah, well, I went up to Watford actually to do an interview with Kike Sanchez-Flores during his brief reign there.

And I have to say, he's probably a...

kind of polar opposite to Nigel Pearson in terms of his character you know he's a obviously a suave guy you know we talked a lot about Watford he was interesting on football but we also talked about his kind of hobbies and his life in London all this stuff he was talking about that you know whereas Pearson's come in obviously he's a

Is he not suave?

Are you suggesting that?

I'm not saying anything negative about Nigel Pearson, of course, but he's just a different proposition, isn't he?

He's kind of a no-nonsense guy who's coming in there and whipping them into shape and bringing more structure and more discipline to them, which is...

What he's done before as well, you know, he's obviously got a lot of experience of fighting relegation.

He did an amazing job at Leicester, keeping them up before their title win under Ranieri.

He really laid the foundations in lots of ways for that.

So I think it is a logical appointment.

You know, it kind of came out of left field, didn't it?

I think he was working abroad and his name had kind of dropped off the radar a little bit.

But no, it's really paid off so far.

They've been really impressive recently and it's had the effect that the club wanted for sure.