Jonathan Liew

I think Carrick is a better...

coach than Solskjaer was at this stage of taking the United job.

But it is a big leap in the dark because there are going to be good coaches available this summer who United could get.

And if they don't go and get those coaches, if they do kind of throw their lot in with Carrick and they're mid-table in November and they have to sack him, it will feel like they've done the wrong thing.

It can be.

I do think fatigue is one of the elements in football these days that probably isn't talked about enough, partly because we don't have the proprietary data on what playing 50 or 60 games a season does to, you know, how do you quantify fatigue?

the performance impact of that load.

And obviously there are people within clubs, there are people within the game who will have a handle on that, but it's clearly such a big part of the game.

In terms of Spurs, I'm not sure staying out of the Champions League would have helped.

I think they'd have just been even sadder even sooner.

Champions League was a kind of a little crumb of comfort in what has been a dismal season for them.

But I think generally speaking, yeah, we don't really know what...

The fact that Villa have done well in Europe and Forest have done well and Palace have done pretty well, we don't really know what kind of effect that's had on their league campaign.

Palace certainly look as though they've put all their eggs in the Conference League basket.

Glasner's been pretty honest about his rotation policy.

But it's a huge...

boosts to a coach, to a certain kind of coach who wants six days on the training field to work with them.

And I think, yeah, certainly United have benefited from that this season and how they balance all of those conflicting schedules and competitions next season is, I guess, another element to it.

We talked about this, right?

It's almost like there's no other club that really prepares you for the Real Madrid job because the currents, the internal politics, the level of expectations...