Sam Tighe

I don't buy that.

Jude Bellingham really pushed back very hard on it.

He did.

He did.

Maybe I'm... Am I naive when I think actually...

These players aren't stupid, and some may be egomaniacs, the vast majority are not.

These guys understand who Chablonso is.

They understand what he did.

They understand, okay, we're playing a different way now.

We can succeed within that system, right?

When he was at Bayer Leverkusen, it's not like he had a bunch of just drones and rubbish robots executing tasks.

He had Florian Wurz, who's pretty good, right?

So you can be a skilled player and star within.

You can be a superstar and star within a Chablonso system.

So we're not really fully buying this narrative.

This is where... You made a really good point there.

And this is where I struggle.

Because regular readers will know that I always go on about performance being more than results.

Maybe it's because I've been too nerdulously influenced by people, but...

I believe performance influences is a better indicator of future results than current results.