Steve Bruce
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I mean, listen, he let Jaap Stam go.
He wouldn't talk about centre-backs.
He let Jaap Stam because he wrote something in a book about... He criticised the Nevels or something, didn't he?
He thought, how dare you?
He had this way of, yeah, but he always seemed to find, you look at the signings, Dennis Irwin from Oldham played for 12 years, Schmeichel 10 years, myself 10 years, Pally for 10 years, Roy Keane for 8, 10 years, Ince for, it was, he seemed to get that right.
The recruitment side of it as well is the part of management which now you see head coach, other people are doing that now, you would think.
So, yeah.
It was all in the mix.
What about when two players in the team don't get on?
He never minded that.
He never minded that.
Look, I'm sure you've been cricket.
There's people you're going to side along.
You don't have to be the best pals of people.
I lived next door to Schmeichel for the best part of eight years.
He was mad as a marching hare at times, you know.
But there was a respect there.
But the team, the team was all that.
On a Saturday, the team was...
vitally important to them.