His confidence is obviously completely shot. You can tell if you watch
closely that his team mates, at City, Wham & even England, don't trust him
with the ball and won;t pass to him unless he is in acres of space. And
once you've lost the confidence of your team mates in football, you're
finished.
Isn't this exactly as it was supposed to play out ?
Before Bielsa, Phillips was hopeless. Bielsa gave him the ideal role where his
pace wasn't exposed in a unique system. It worked the majority of the time but
even then he had some stinkers with Bielsa subbing him early (at half time
once) a f
The transfer rumours page on bbc sport reckoned citeh would want £30m for him.
Seems steep given his lack of game time for two seasons.
He’s not coped with going from Bielsa, who built the team around him, to other
coaches who expect him to fit in their style of play.
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We'd need to get promoted first as i suspect Man City will still want
£10m+
If we are promoted i suspect midfield will need to be upgraded - though
Kamara looks more vulnerable than Gruev (who we really missed on Monday)
and that's not really Kalvin's position.
Easy to dismiss him as a Bie
Seeing quite a bit of “speculation” that KP might come back to Leeds in the
summer.
Loved him under Bielsa… but he was pretty average prior to those master classes.
And, who would he replace…not Gruev, possibly Kamara, & hopefully he wouldn’t
block Archie Gray’s development.
I think that ship