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• Unable to disagree with a single word

  Only add that rather similar to the comments about AVB’s handling of Torres I would add the names of the younger players Josh, Bertrand and Lukaku .
  What can they learn by “sometimes” sitting on the bench.

  Think AVB is still lacking in experience of man management. He needs an older head to guide him and the current DoF is not having much influence in this direction

• I always enjoy your views! Nice article and just about agree with you, apart from two things!

  1)I think AVB’s biggest problem is not so much having to try to get the players to now revert to a system that suits them, rather than his own, but the clearly growing lack of belief in him all together! I think player power has come into it again and that he may well have lost the dressing room!

  2) To say City look comfortable I must remind you that they lost last night and are now in a position where the CL is now out of their hands and they may very well go out of the competition! Let’s be clear about this, it’s far from comfortable!

• I have a mate who was MD of a Fortune 500 (F300, actually) subsidiary over here (their best performer in the world) that I do stuff for, who described his management philosophy as: “Simple: You put the square pegs in the f*****g square holes. If the holes are round you use round pegs. And if you haven’t got any, you f*****g get some.”

  I’d say that sums up Hiddink’s approach to coaching, which is why he’s such a good football “fireman”.
  Someone ought to tell Andre Villas-Boas.

  Currently we have a squad of square pegs

  There are two choices:
  1 Change to a square-hole system
  2 Get rid of the square pegs and replace them with round ones.
  It’s either one or the other.

  Do we have any round pegs at the moment?
  I don’t know.
  AVB and RDM run training sessions.
  If we do: Use them and retain the round-hole system.
  If we don’t, we’ve got to use what we’ve got – at least until January.
  And if they’re all square pegs….

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