Josh Sexton

Because one of the things that Jürgen said when he left was that, you know, he'd just run out of energy for the job.

I wonder whether Guardiola will, you know, go and put himself now firmly in the driving seat, hopefully, of this type of race, at least because we don't want Aleteta to win it.

And then sort of, you know, checking with himself a bit from there, deciding energy in it.

Even if it was a Maresca, for all that you could argue, Maresca failed at Chelsea based on the fact that he got sacked.

Chelsea are one of these clubs that we're talking about who have been terribly run, who just keep sacking managers and not giving them any runway.

And if City got Maresca, I think you see a totally different version of them.

I'll use that as a sort of perfect segue to look at Chelsea and Man United especially since the mention of United and Carrick there we'll start with them because like they genuinely have a sort of almost a crossroads they're arriving at now with Michael Carrick where you know he came in and did exactly what he was meant to do probably exceeded expectations really at first especially when I watched it in that City game I was like oh this doesn't just seem like it's a new manager balance they seem like they're actually playing much better football and all more suited to the football that's

that's being played it's kind of tailed off a little bit since then while still you know getting the odd result here and there do we think it was when he the appointment was made for him to do the interim do you think they sort of did that with the idea that it doesn't matter whether he succeeds or not because there's always going to be somebody else coming in or do you think there was genuinely like this is an audition for you for the job whether there's you know a lack of credit in the bank based on your managerial experience or not um and will sort of level you up against who else we look at

It's definitely not a noise of that business.

Yeah, I think there's almost a parallel with sort of back into Hodgson into Kenny here with United as well, Ian, where Kenny sort of being almost the pure interim in the way that FSG kind of considered him.

Katarik could just be that, where it was just like, we need a positive in this coming, someone who understands the club, someone who can kind of lift it.

Because I used to always watch Amram and I was like, I don't know how your players could ever feel inspired by you because the way he speaks in press conferences is so negative, so consistent and negative about the play.

Yeah and that's the thing like you've even seen that with Spurs you could argue this season where like I've been saying to basically everybody who listened that I feel like if they'd kept Thomas Frankie even for a couple more weeks I think they'd have got a result from the North London derby I think they'd have almost certainly stayed up because at some point he was just going to find a way to you know make the football work especially for a relegation battle bear in mind and it just feels like they kept sacking managers and getting the wrong person and each time up to and including Roberto de Zerbi so At some point they had some bloke

Why have you brought him in?

This is when I know I'm getting old is because I remember him from playing for Croatia on the national team.

And I was like, oh, he's a football manager now.

But his reputation's gone now.

He's gone to spares and he's been sacked because...

Potentially, but I do wonder if United would look at that as almost like not necessarily a poison chalice, but like we think we'll make better decisions with him than Spurs.

Because you look at someone like Iriola, who like it kind of has almost gone stale with towards the back end of his Bournemouth career anyway.