Kay Murray

I think Cucurella has a point.

the ownership group with clear lake or blue coal whoever it is they've kind of um they have their approach and they've kind of set their stall out kukurela talks about it young players coming in um so from a business perspective maybe they can't be as criticized as as you would from a footballing perspective signing young players with a knife for the future and the salon putting them on relatively low wages but long contracts i guess from a business perspective makes sense

From a footballing perspective, it does not.

Footballers want to win things, no.

Fans want to see their club win things, no.

You can sell them a project a year or two in advance, you cannot sell fans seven or eight years time, we'll be all right.

And that's the balancing act, and that's...

The big clubs get that just right.

This new ownership group, again, has not.

Maybe following in the footsteps of Abramovich and how he did things and how quickly things changed.

But they certainly have not found that balance.

So I fully understand the frustration of Cucurella.

And as I say, I think it's a frustration felt that far wider than just the dressing room.

Part of the issue is the more things change, the more they stay the same.

Back in our day, you knew you'd go on international break, somebody was going to go back to their home country, do an interview, and a week or two later...

that that interview would filter through and it'd be criticizing whether there's a club or his teammates whatever it is roll the clock forward was it 30 40 years and and nothing's changed really despite social media and the immediacy of it players go away to international duty and do interviews in their native languages with reporters maybe they're comfortable with and and these things come out um but but again to steve's point um i do not disagree with a single thing cuccarella says

I really don't.

And it's true.

And the other aspect to this is, well, we can sit here and say, well, listen, as a player, you really shouldn't be talking about this publicly, which is right.

If you are a little bit frustrated and you're thinking, I can engineer a move here, you say what you want.