Will Slattery

Yeah, I'm not surprised though, because even...

Like there's times where Bellingham, even when they're winning the Champions League final against Dortmund, that was under Ancelotti.

And that was a period where like Vinicius is just like, I'm not tracking back.

I'm just not.

You know, I mean, you can tell me to, but it's not going to happen.

And like Bellingham goes from that false nine free scoring, you know, supernova for that first year to like,

Yeah, Jude, even though it's not your position at all, you're just going to have to sit left wing in a kind of 4-4-2 shape here when we don't have the ball and just shuttle up and down and just be almost kind of a, you know, just a body in there.

So I'm sure for him, yeah, kind of.

He was reduced to that.

And they won the Champions League final, so, you know, that paper's over a lot of cracks.

But I'm sure he was thinking...

I'm not like a left winger.

I'm a lot of things.

I'm not a left winger.

It was so interesting on so many levels.

I mean, it was very striking.

I thought when Gareth Bale

Did that big interview in The Overlap recently, and he said he knew when Alonso was going in as systems coach that it just wouldn't work.

He just knew it's just not how we do things there.

You know, that dressing room is almost a unique ecosystem.