Shaka Hislop

You drop the Rangers in and all of a sudden the next morning Hutchison wants to sign for Rangers.

So you can sort of get sucked into the conversation, but it can't be just like when three players are coming out having the same conversation about the board.

You know, we're all experienced people.

We know the game.

And when all of us are saying the same thing about what Kukureya and Enzo Fernandez and Gusto are saying is essentially right.

That would lead me to the job that the sporting directors are doing.

Because if we can sit here and say, well, Chelsea are signing young players and it's not going to work.

Why are the sporting directors giving Maresca and giving Resenha young players to work with?

They need experienced players.

You'd question the job that they're doing.

Well, obviously it's embarrassing.

You know, I think the conversation would last two or three hours if you're having a serious debate on what's happening with the national side.

But when you look on the face of it, it feels like they've lost their DNA.

When you close your eyes, you think about the strongest Italian teams.

You think about Italian defenders that are rugged.

Not like Bastogne or Calafiori where, and I'm not singling them out because they're good footballers, but the Italian defenders were Italian defenders.

And they've lost the ability to find the number 10s.

They've lost the ability to find Baggio's, find Del Piero's, find Gianfranco Zola's, these guys that were mavericks.

Now, what I would guarantee...

is that these kids are out there in the schools, these Baggios and these Del Pieros are out there in the schools.